Tacos and Ballots

BOXING: We're just a couple of days away from the election, and votes continue to pour in early here in King County. As of Halloween night at 6 p.m., of the county's 1,409,017 registered voters, 1,014,55, or 72 percent, had returned their ballots. That's fantastic! We spied this ballot box at the White Center library a couple of nights ago. It looked lonely in the moment, but it, like other ballot box drops, has been plenty busy. 

As of noon on November 4, King County Elections was reporting 1,209,255 of King County's 1,425,772 registered voters had returned their ballots - that's 84.81 percent! 

STOLEN TACOS: One fun thing we look forward to each year for the past couple of years is stealing tacos. 

Never fear, we are not robbing Taco Bells, rather, they have been doing a promotion where if a player steals a base during the World Series, every American is eligible to 'steal' a taco.

We have Mookie Betts of the Dodgers to thank for our free tacos. During my lunch break, we tore down to the Taco Bell in Renton. Surprisingly, there was only one other car in line. Don't people like free tacos?!

CJ sure does. :) We may or may not have passed another Taco Bell several hours later. ... 

TREAT TOSS: Friday afternoon we were able to participate in a gathering with about 50 or so, I think. It was the first time we've done anything like that in, like, FOREVER.

The occasion was a Halloween costume parade and candy toss at a park by the kids' former school. To keep it safe, social distancing was strictly enforced, there were gloves and hand sanitizer, masks everywhere and it was only a half hour long. 

We know a lot of the students at CJ and Annabelle's former school have food allergies, so we opted to bring some Dollar Store prizes instead, along with a few packs of nori (seaweed), which were surprisingly popular.

Unicorn Annabelle tossed them into kids' bags. 

Meanwhile, CJ, as Buddy the Elf, tossed some fruit leather for a parent, so that he could walk around the circle with his kids. 

The kids didn't go trick or treating this year, and I had to work all day on Halloween, but I did order them some treats online, which they and Christian went to pick up in the late afternoon at Cupcake Royale. 

Pretty cool, and tasty, too, I'm told.