We had another great Halloween - pretty amazing we can have so much fun on a holiday that isn't even celebrated in Switzerland! But, with the English-speaking members of our church congregation, as well as Will's bilingual preschool and Nathan and Elise's international school, there is plenty of celebrating going on.
Nathan was Anakin Skywalker, Will was a pirate for some parties and a knight for others (but always with a light saber), and Elise and Meredith were both flamenco dancers (with authentic costumes from our recent trip to Spain)! Mom was a hippy (I've gotten a lot of use out of that costume!) and Dad was a doctor.
We went to a fun Halloween carnival at church the week before Halloween. Dave provided his "Stick the Face on the Pumpkin" for our family's game booth once again - even crazier than last year (he likes to blindfold the big kids and spin them around so they walk half way across the gym in the wrong direction...)! All the kids had fun, but Nathan was the most methodical, visiting every booth in exact order.
Will had a dress-up day at preschool, and the whole family went to the big ICS party on Friday night, Oct. 30th. They had trunk-or-treating with the trunks (or "boots", as they're called in British English) decorated to the hilt.
This year we even carved a pumpkin and put it out in front of our house on top of our mailbox. It was a nice jack-o-lantern if I do say so myself! People often walk along our street to get to the forest trails. One day when I looked out our kitchen window, I saw three older ladies standing near our mailbox studying the jack-o-lantern. It looked like one of the Swiss ladies was explaining this strange Halloween tradition to the other two Swiss women. So funny! But, I think the pumpkin did some good, because we actually had one family of trick-or-treaters this year!
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