Jacobites: Halloween Meeting

**sirdaniel1975** · 29th October 08, 03:02 PM

Jacobites: Scots-Irish Club of Lakeland, Fl.

"History of Halloween Meeting"

Oct. 28, 2008

We had a fun time at this meeting, and no one was wearing a kilt at this gathering except for:

MacSkully the Jacobite!!! :-)

Some of us wore costumes and others just dressed warm, because it was very cool for an October evening in Fl. We had some new folks and some brought their kids which I feel was great being a Halloween oriented meeting. Some of the meeting was outdoors ... there was a fire pit, canopy tent, decorations (spooky and Autumn themed), grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, etc..

The lesson was on the History of Halloween, which was given by our Secretary Sheila Smith (x marks very own Scottish Mommy). I read some passages out of "Ghostly Scotland" after the lesson to help set the mood. All in all it was a success and we are already scheming a bigger "Halloween Function" next year!

Some of our goodies!

Outdoors fellowship

Around the fire for the lesson and ghost stories...

**sirdaniel1975** · 29th October 08, 03:09 PM

Our costumes....

I was the Highlander:

example photo: (for those who don't know who the Highlander is)

Aaron (activities director and xmarks' Celtic Cowboy) was a Ghostbuster:

example photo:

**sirdaniel1975** · 29th October 08, 03:13 PM

Girls Costumes:

A couple of ladies were Fairies..

Here's some of Sheila:

2nd from the left..

A shot of her wings, which she made herself!

Kayla was a Gothic Fairy

**sirdaniel1975** · 29th October 08, 03:21 PM

Here's some photos of the backyard decorations:......

I made several spider webs out of yarn... very inexpensive and effective.

This web is about 14ft wide and 4.5ft in length and the bottom is about four feet off the ground.

A daytime shot with 75% of the decorations

**sirdaniel1975** · 29th October 08, 03:25 PM

Spooky decorations...

cocooned victim day shot

night shot

my jack-o'lantern

big spider

**sirdaniel1975** · 29th October 08, 03:29 PM

Random pics

Erin... and her husband Bob

Hanging by the food...

(L-R) Kayla, Aaron, Crystal and her family

**SFCRick** · 29th October 08, 03:33 PM

looks like you made a fun time for all

**JRB** · 29th October 08, 04:54 PM

Looks like you had a blast!

**Sionnach** · 29th October 08, 05:37 PM

Great decorations!

**BoldHighlander** · 29th October 08, 05:54 PM

Crikey Daniel!!
When I saw the spider pic's I thought I had somehow stumbled upon the Never Going To Australia thread again!

Great photos, looks like a great time had by all (despite the spiders ).