Chicagoing: A City Overtaken

 I never used to believe those TV shows with their Halloween-themed episodes where every single person in the show was walking around in an amazing costume. I thought this was only a TV thing, until I moved to Chicago. Seriously, walking down the street this entire weekend everyone has been completely decked out in their Halloween attire.

Mr. B wanted to eat this costume:

I attribute this to all the Halloween "pop-up shops" that have now taken over nearly every vacant store front. But, this has given us a great opportunity to allow the pooches to spend the weekend dressed in costume so they could meet many more people. Miss M decided to be an angel this year:

Ironically, we had also gotten a devil costume, but she actually refused to wear it and freaked out. We went to a neighborhood Halloween pet event in the morning. Mr. B won a prize for his turtle costume:

But we really thought they deserved to win:

We took lots of long walks in our neighborhood where the pooches got a lot of attention for their costumes:

Then we went to the North Halsted Street Halloween Parade. I used to live in this neighborhood for years, and I had no idea what a huge, fun parade this is. People really go all out, and they had a huge parade that we were able to be part of. They even had floats, bands, and tons of spectators. 

Miss M had such a great time marching in the parade; she had to greet every single person, and people were even commenting that she was just like a political candidate who had to meet everyone. It was a really fun time, and E is going to post more photos on Wednesday.

We wish we had put together a "group costume" for the pooches, and maybe something we could dress up for also. Did anyone do this, or have any group costume ideas we could do next year?