Glitterism, Concert, Treasure

We're driving back from the Halloween concert and Glitter starts counting. She starts strong and makes it up into the thirties: 30, 31, 32, 33. But when she gets to the end of the decade, she gets stuck in a time warp: 39, 30, 31, 32. The cycle repeats a few times. She just can't seem to get to 40. Instead she starts skipping numbers, hoping that will get her to the next decade faster: 32, 35, 37. But a little pause for thought at 39 does her in, and she's back at 30 again. Finally, she just calmly gives up. "That's enough thirties," she proclaims, and stops counting. The rest of us in the car agree, "yup, that's enough thirties."

BTW, the Halloween concert was great but *crowded.* There were swarms of kids, many in costume. Some of the costumes were scary and Sparkle momentarily freaked out when a goblin walked between her and the rest of the family. We let the girls each get a piece of free candy but skipped the rest of the madness to find seats on the hill.

The biggest highlight of the night was the 14 karat gold, diamond ring that Sparkle found in the grass as we were packing up to go. People had been gradually leaving for the last half hour, and the hill was a mess of people moving in all different directions. No-one was frantically searching the grass, so we brought the ring to the information booth lost and found. At first Sparkle thought it was a toy and wanted to keep it, but when we explained that it was a really expensive ring and meant a lot to someone, she was proud of doing the right thing. I hope that the ring gets back to its rightful owner. It was gorgeous.