Halloween is almost here. Actually, for Unicorn Cove Halloween comes a day early this year. Every year the city of Westbrook hosts “Halloween on Main Street” where they shut down a section of Main Street to cars from 4:30 -6:00 so all the kids can safely trick-or-treat at the local businesses. Since Halloween falls on a Saturday this year, Westbrook is holding this event on Friday. The event is pretty huge, with kids from Westbrook and (I suspect) neighboring towns as well all out in costume swarming the streets and filling their trick-or-treat bags.

The first year we were here we were shocked to find that we were one of the only businesses who dressed up for the occasion! All the kids (and many of their parents) thought we were the coolest business on the street because we were all in costume. So it’s become kind of a tradition for us all to dress up and hand out candy every year. Last year there were at least 5 huge bowls of candy with all of us in costume, and kids would come down the line and take some from every bowl -sometimes more than once! Needless to say, we go through a LOT of candy at Halloween. If you come to Unicorn Cove this week and feel like donating a couple of bags of candy for Friday it would certainly help! And if you’re a local trick-or-treater we’ll see you out on Main Street this Friday!