Trick and Treat... A Happy Halloween!

During this time of year, we are often asked, "Is Halloween celebrated over there?"

In short, yes, but it is definitely less popular, and the costumes are more focused on being scary. Over here, Halloween isn't a night where you can wear any costume- it needs to be scary. Tonight we had about 15 different groups of trick-or-treaters and most of them were dressed as villains from horror movies or witches. Also, not many houses welcome trick-or-treaters so you have to put a pumpkin in front of your door to signal that you want them to stop at your house.

Naturally, we were all about having them stop by : ) I feel like it's my duty to give out candy to kids in costumes because of all the years growing up that people gave out candy to me! Aaron and I carved four pumpkins to put in front of our house this year. The first one that I carved ended up rotting too quickly so we only had three outside, but they turned out pretty good. We roasted the pumpkin seeds too which is definitely one of the best parts!

The first trick-or-treater we received was interesting... I was really excited and had the candy all ready to go. There was a knock at the door and I ran down the stairs. I opened it up and there was a large grown man with a garbage bag saying "Trick-or-treat. I'd like some money." I was completely taken by surprise and began saying, "No, sorry" in between him repeatedly asking me for money. Then he put his hand on our door to hold it open, looked at the candy bowl I was holding and said "Ok, I'll take that." I got really freaked out and started to close it saying, "No, sorry. It's for the kids." He was more trick than treat...

A little shaken up at the start, but after that weird experience, the rest of our night was just like in the US but a lot less busy! And everything was made up by this very unique letter we received at the end of the night from a friendly neighbor complimenting us on our "wonderful, immaculately carved pumpkin heads!"

I love our neighborhood : ) Happy Halloween from the Newlyweds Abroad!!