We were in a similar situation when we lived in Florida for a while. We lived a bit out in the country with quite a long walk between houses. There would not have been much benefit to walking around that neighborhood!

so you see more kids congregating towards those events and not out on the streets

Yeah, I have noticed in general kids these days move around in large groups which I think is great. Last night we were worried that there weren't going to be any kids and we had a TON of candy. But then at about 6:30 or so, seemingly out of nowhere we started to get huge groups of kids all at once. Then we regularly got large groups every few minutes. But hardly any single kids.

He is a pretty cute dinosaur! :) I hope you had a great evening!

Thanks! He was having a blast last night. We started feeling a bit sick as the night progressed though. I think little Rick brought home a cold virus from school. We are feeling a bit better today, though.