bees, pirates, zebras and other halloween craziness on Beals Island

What could be better than an adorable bumble bee?

How about a bigger bee with super fancy shoes?

Add to that a baby zebra...

Captain Jack Sparrow...

A couple of grown-up pirates...

And enough wind to blow one of those bumble bees right off your back... (that was honest-to-goodness fear in Ella's eyes. The wind was HOWLING.)

And you've got a Halloween to remember!

The queen bees with their baby bumbles.

The waddle the girls adopted with those stingers going to side to side were just too much...

A big thanks to Elisa who made these most amazing costumes for her kiddos last year and let us use them (which meant a lot of wipes as Maya smeared chocolate all over her face.) If we play our cards right, we might be lucky enough to inherit the use of penguins next year...