Kelly and I got up bright and early to run the "Carrera de los Muertos" 5K in Pilsen. (And Kevin got up bright and early to cheer us on.) Pilsen is a predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood in Chicago, and the race coincided with their Day of the Dead celebration. It also benefited UNO - a charter school network - so what's not to like?
It was a really great race. The weather was sunny and cool, there was plenty of entertainment, and they served us free churros at the end. (Of course, two tiny churros weren't enough to satisfy us, so we had to stop and buy some Mexican pastries to share after the race. Five for the three of us. You know.)
Then Saturday night we headed to a couple of Halloween parties - one at our neighbor's place and one at Kelly's. Kevin and I hemmed and hawed about what our costumes should be and finally settled on...
A raccoon (me) and a shiny object (him). That was our brilliant idea. (Kelly's, actually.) I don't know if people got it. (Kevin was called a Christmas Tree two or three times.)
Here we are, doing a photo shoot to our camera's timer.
We had no trick-or-treaters, sadly. Somehow they couldn't make it through the two locked gates to get to our condo. Next year...
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