Happy to see that you didn't dress Ginger up. I always feel so badly for the poor dogs that have to don some outfit to be their owner's accessory. This year I answered the door dressed up as Yoda. Totally embarrassed my 15 yr old. : )

Odd you mentioned a spider. We live on an island next to Miami Beach, and most of the neighbors do spooky displays, including us, which draws hundreds of kids from surrounding neighborhoods. Last night, I took my 3 grandchildren, and my girlfriends 2 children, 7,5,5,2, and 9 mo (he won best costume dressed as the Dali Lama; we drew spectacles around his eyes). At the end of the block lives a woman crazy as a loon all year round, but she puts on the best displays. She was sitting outside in a chair by the road with bowls of candy, dressed as a witch, with her arm resting on a a giant spider. Little did we know it was mechanical; she controlled it with a button, and when the kids would get close, she would make it jump towards them. Scared the hell out of them. Scared the hell out of me. Happy Halloween. Don't eat all your candy.