Downtown Menlo Park was overrun with tiny Tiggers, winged fairies, diminutive Darth Vaders, jellyfish trailing tentacles, sweating tots in furry animal suits, and a couple of coven’s worth of witches on Saturday morning, Oct. 28, as the annual children’s Halloween parade commandeered Santa Cruz Avenue.
Led by the Hillview Middle School band, beaming parents escorted kids in fancy dress from the Burgess Recreation Center to Fremont Park.
Downtown shops handed out Halloween candy, as trick-or-treaters headed back to Burgess for a city-sponsored Halloween Hoopla carnival.
Costumes ranged from the homemade, like the fine feathered family that left a trail of plumage everywhere they went, to an abundance of Disney princesses proudly promenading in store-bought satin gowns.
—Andrea Gemmet, Almanac staff writer
