They opened up the zoo and allowed kids of all sizes into the park to - what else? - go trick or treating in a family friendly and safe environment. Miles got to pet a turtle outside the zoo while waiting in line. Actually, I believe he tried to wrestle it away from the zookeeper, but he seemed intrigued nonetheless.
Once we got into the park he waddled through a trick or treat maze, mostly ignore people's attempts to talk with him and give him candy.
After he left this area, we wandered into a dark exhibit inside a small building with creepy music, low lighting and lots of children. Unfazed, Miles decided to make a break for it and veered right into the darkened glass wall of the exhibit, which to be fair, did clearly reflect a potential space to explore. It reminded me of old roadrunner cartoons in which Wile E. Coyote smacks into a fake tunnel on the side of a rock. It still made me laugh - even though this time it was for real.
After this, we went to this area which had large dinosaur eggs that kids could crawl through. Miles LOVED this area. Although right before we got there, this older kid (~7) with a face mask ran, full-throttle into Miles. Miles landed directly on his butt and then smacked his head into the pavement. That was not as funny. He cried for a couple of minutes. The other mom felt terrible so she had her son apologize to Miles. I didn't know what to say because she looked like she was about to cry, so I just said, "It was an accident; he'll be fine." We subsequently avoided this family for the rest of the night. Regardless, I think he forgot about it less than 5 minutes later, but perhaps that is part of the concussion (kidding- of course).
After a few pieces of candy, Miles preferred simply running around to various isolated areas in the park to explores trees, rocks, dirt, whatever struck his fancy at the moment. Andrew and I decided that he is probably still to young to "get" Halloween, but had a great time at this event.
One of my favorite parts was when he saw this random guy floating around as a ghost, making scary sounds. Miles came upon him and just stared at him for about 30 seconds. Then, he ran right past him like - if you're not gonna do anything, I am just going to keep on going about my business. If nothing else, we confirmed that Miles Gene is definitely a securely attached little boy.
