Halloween!

There was a slew of parties lined up... first my ACGO meeting which I didn't know was supposed to be costumed, so Coryn got to choose from a box of stuff, as you can see he went with the ever popular giant pink sequined hat. Yes, he's busting a move.

Here we all are in our costumes (Jackson is an Afghan) at a Japanese Halloween party we were invited to, which was quite different. They had games, costumes, and a haunted house of course, but different none-the-less. They handed out candy bags to everyone on the way in, including adults. They had a card to fill out signature squares for each game. We didn't know what to expect so I brought some candy to hand out, and after I gave it to the lady that invited me she ran off and brought the guy in charge over to personally thank me for our donation. :)

Japanese costumes are quite haphazard, although possibly more creative... in general they don't quite know what to do with Halloween, its not in their culture. This is one of the games they had set up, fishing for candy, and these guys dressed appropriately in octopus and turtle getup. Another game they had was really fun, they filled a small room with crumpled newspaper and had strewn candy about for people to jump in and find.

Here's Halloween night... Boba Fett and Chicago Firefighter are ready to go! (complete with popcorn buckets from Tokyo Disney for candy)

We carved a pumpkin the day before and this is Coryn's first look at it lit up. He chose the design and watched me carve it. We even baked the seeds. Needless to say, there is way too much candy in the house. Still.