Trick or treat!

This post about Halloween is a bit belated but I just only had time to download the pictures. Halloween was never a big thing for us when I was a child (in those days, I had my scary aunties so every day was Halloween for us!).

Here in Bangkok, the international schools do have scary dress-up day with some activities for the day. In the school that Sean goes to, we have had a Haunted House for the past two years. It was a lot of work converting our parent's room into a Haunted House. The children loved it! We get girls (and occasionally some boys) screaming their lungs out, some of the boys get violent and the 'ghouls' get punched and kicked at. For the past two years, I have dressed up as the Mummy. It required LOTS of strips of cloth wrapped round me which made me feel like an ad for one of those slimming centres where you are wrapped to death.

Sean as the 'baby" Mummy.

Outside the Haunted House. Of course it's not a hand!

Since we had time, decided to make a non-scary pinata for Primary students.

On top of what goes on in schools, I have friends who host Halloween parties. This year, was held in the 'moo baan' (housing estate) my friend lived in. They decided that instead of hosting individual house parties, they would combine and have an estate party. They children and even some adults dressed up. It was really fun as there was lots of food, drinks and games for the children.

Rush for sweets after breaking the pinata.

And what would Halloween be without trick or treating? The children went round collecting sweets/toys. When they were done, they put it in a huge pile and while the adults were downstairs, they started making inroads to the pile of sweets. We discovered it when the sugar rush hit them and they started bouncing off the walls! All in all, we had a fantastic Halloween. Till next year!

My whacky friends and their kids!