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This Halloween, Friday, October 31st: Join us
for a first of its kind special Groveland Style Halloween celebration dinner to
coincide with the downtown merchant candy give-a-way.
This year the Hotel Charlotte restaurant will be open and seating folks with the
center table of our dining room removed and replaced with a barrel of candy. The
fairytale dressed children will get their candy from the dining room giving our
diners the best views and photo opportunities possible of the candy march
festivities.
Special treats will be awarded to those who come to dinner dressed in costume.
Reserve early, these seats sell out quickly! 209-962-6455.
www.HotelCharlotte.com
There will be one seating at 5:30 and you are guaranteed your table throughout
the night.
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Details & Photos on this page are from 2007 Halloween
Groveland throws the best Halloween Party in
the world, inviting all the children from far and near to enjoy
trick-or-treating along our cute downtown.
We start with a costume contest in Mary
Laveroni Community Park on the East side of town and at 5:00 the kids
start heading in to the business district for trick-or-treating.
Here at the Hotel Charlotte, we spend the
afternoon placing and lighting candles, finding our biggest pot to put
the candy in and dimming the lights.
Victor dons something unusual, this year
the garb of a priest. Lynn has a few masks to choose from, mostly
Mardi Gras like.
An unlikely costume!
And then we wait for the kids to come and come they do. Princesses
and Spiderman men, and a Headless horseman. This year we saw a
bunny, bear and television, Winnie the Pooh made a stop as did a
toilet. We laughed at the Moore Brother's garbage man and teased the
parents that also had to take a piece of candy.
This year's bucket for the Hotel
Charlotte candy stash was half of a wine barrel, a worthy vessel for
sweet distribution. Six kids at once could reach in and get a few
pieces, no candy traffic jams here! A few kids needed a lift to reach
the candy, one found his own step stool and almost fell into the
bucket. Most all were amazed by the freedom of grabbing their own
treats. Just a handful had to be reminded to only take only 2 or 3
pieces, only those who took 6 or more were told that Santa probably
saw that.
We are the only stop in town that lets the kids grab their own
candy. Quantity rules were enforced by the Candy Police, which was often
Lynn. Not too surprisingly, most of the children were perfectly polite
in their candy takes.
Goose will wisely hide throughout the evening in his own wine barrel bed.
When the festivities get rolling Victor brings out some tasty
appetizers for the adults that have joined us. Each year the same
folks, plus a few more converts. This year we had a group of 10
reserve our dining room for a Halloween
celebration of their own. They brought pizza and shared it with all of
us.
We consider it a successful night if we don't run out of candy,
appetizers or wine. This was another successful year.
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Kay has always been a handful
The devil did it!
Charmers! Look out boys.
Awed by the Halloween lights, people and barrel of candy!
No Halloween is complete without Jelly Belly!
Cool effect on the windows, don't know what happened, but I like it
Is a Halloween really complete without a headless horseman.
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Hotel Charlotte
