Happy October 27th

Happy October 27th...also known as Happy Halloween here in Korea.  The base celebrated Halloween on Saturday evening instead of October 31st.  The kids were a little disappointed that it wasn't on the real Halloween, but I was pretty excited.  I really detest the late night on a school night.  It's probably the teacher in me.

So here are the kids in their Halloween costumes.

I love how each kid's personality shows through in his/her costume.  Ali is all about the scare factor.  Ryan loves to be silly.  And Emma, what more can I say...she's our little princess in every way.

Unfortunately for us, October 27th was a rainy night.  Also unfortunate, we made Ryan's costume out of cardboard and posterboard.  Rain and paper products don't really go well together.  Because of this, we decided to trick-or-treat in the indoor apartments on post.

You can't tell from the few pictures we took, but people there really went all out with their Halloween decorations.  I was impressed.

It didn't take long to run through the 50 or so apartments there, and the kids wanted more candy.  So we ventured out into the rain.  We didn't get a lot of pictures from here on out because the weather was so nasty but we did get a few.

What I really wish we had gotten pictures of, though, were some of the Korean trick-or-treaters.  Halloween isn't celebrated in Korea.  Many of the local kids want to experience this American holiday (who wouldn't with the amount of free candy involved!), so they come onto post to trick-or-treat.  Several weren't told about the costumes though.  It's quite fun to see these kids in street clothes knocking on doors saying, "Trick or Treat" in their best English.  It's neat to be able to share this holiday with these children.

The kids got mostly your normal candy of Hershey bars and Sweet Tarts, but there were a few foreign treats thrown in.  Here were a few of them.

While Emma wasn't interested in trying them, the rest of us did.  We didn't get a picture of our favorite one.  It was a Korean version of a Moon Pie.  Yummy!

On October 31st one of the neighborhoods here on post had a Halloween costume potluck dinner.  One family we've met so far was nice enough to invite us.  The kids got to dress up again and have a great time playing games and running around.

We felt a little bad as everyone welcomed us to the neighborhood and we had to explain we didn't live there -- we were just crashing their party!  They were all great about it.  We hope we end up with a house in that neighborhood.  :)