There's a very cute attempt to observe Halloween here. The big stores
all sell about three costumes -- vampire, pumpkin, witch -- take your
pick. It's pretty hard to find candy in bulk to pass out. And no one
really knows what the actual date is, so we got a pair of kids at the door
every night leading up to the 31st (we raided the pantry and handed out random biscuits).
The International School had its first-ever Halloween festival in the middle of October before everyone went on Fall Break. The highlight was dangling donuts and fortune telling. Madeline will become a dancer and a scientist; Charlie preferred not to ask the friendly dad/fortune teller a question and cashed in his ticket for a piece of candy instead. John was so darn cute that his photo made the ISL newsletter.
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| Fortune telling! |
We also went Trick-or-Treating in Bertrange with the American Women's Club. They did a great job of organizing some houses in a nearby neighborhood to pass out candy -- about every tenth house had a balloon on their mailbox, which indicated they were participating.
And finally, on the 31st, we celebrated with our friend's, Meredith and Peter, at their house.
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| Grammy carried candy corn across the ocean for us! |
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