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The afternoon of Halloween started off reasonably well. I picked up Marlis from school at lunch and we ate lunch at Yoshi and then took her to piano lesson.
We get home and she changes into her costume (fairy-princess something) and she is running around the driveway with her wand. Next thing I knew, she looked upset. She dropped her wand into the sewer drain. Tears are welling up and we scramble to find her other wand. Well, in her haste, she tripped over R's beer that was laying on the ground. He gets upset and then the crying and wailing start. Meanwhile, during all this, I am on a telecon and my understanding classmates, hearing the wailing, tell me that I should hang up.

We find another wand. The rest of the night of trick-treating goes well.

It's amazing how it seems like the end of the world to lose your wand (and spilled beer).