Preschool Halloween Event

So I drop off Lanie, and I'm en route to Sam's school, have it in my head this thing at Vivi's school starts at 8:45, check my email while in traffic and find out it started at 8:00 and ends at 8:45- it's now 8:30. 

Park at Vivian's school and run Vivian and Sam across the street to Sam's school, leave him at the corner to walk down the the street and get himself in.  He's thoroughly confused because we're at a different corner than usual.  Race back across the intersection to Vivian's school.  She is wearing her hair in a "Princess style" and stick on earrings, but no princess dress.  Because why would you wear a costume to your costume parade?  Not buying this child a costume next year...

I get into her school and it's time to show parents work, which was not communicated.  So she gets her work out and starts to show me how to do it, and then it's time for parents to go upstairs to the hall while the kids line up.  Two kids won't get off their parents, Vivian keeps begging me to stay and see her work for "five more minutes", which is my fault because I messed up the time. 

We go upstairs and wait for ten minutes for the kids to parade in.  Vivian is the only one not wearing a costume.  It takes them ten minutes to assemble the two primary classes on the stage and then they realized that the toddlers weren't up yet.  They sang a handful of  songs, (I'll send some videos), complete with kids melting down and running around behind everyone and toddlers frozen in fear.  The songs were actually quite good though.  Then it abrubtly ends and the director decides the kids should parade around the room.  So they come off the stage and have to parade by the cookie table (set out for the parents) and out the door to go back downstairs, but someone decides it's a good idea to have them do laps around the parents about 6 times.  Vivian quits the parade, several kids start crying hysterically and want to leave with their parents, some kids grab cookies, costume bits are strewn around the parade route, utter chaos.  By like the 5th lap they've lost half the kids, I am now in the parade with Vivian, and walking laps around the other parents, cringing that I'm not at work.  Then Sahar decides it's time for parents to bring the kids downstairs and take their costumes off.  I am still in the parade, so I run in front of everyone, down the stairs, grab her princess costume (one point for Vivian not wearing her costume), say, "oh! now you can finish your work!  there's your teacher!"  and run right out the door.  Everyone else is peeling costumes off of their crying children.