Halloween!

In usual expatriate American style, we rocked it again for Halloween!

We had a big party in our compound, and invited tons of friends... we had more than 45 kids in all, and four activity stations: tattoos and nail painting, mummy pizzas, craft bags, and COOKIE DECORATING at our house!

 

 

4 dozen cupcakes and 130 sugar cookies -- GO!

 

 

Simultaneously, a spinach-guts-mummy was being created in the kitchen..

 

 

 

Once we got through all of the baking and decorating, we donned our Harry Potter costumes and headed to the haunted garage (deemed by the kids as too scary to enter more than three steps) and a big community potluck dinner.  It was a great evening! 

[And exhausting! We were all asleep on the couches by 9pm!]

 

 The Hogwarts family.. left to right: Zoey, Professor of Culinary Creations; Zeric, Potion Master (with a focus on beer); Jaffa/Luna Ravenclaw house student; Maelle, fellow Hogwarts student; Eben the Deatheater.. and in front.. Blu as Doby in his pillowcase.  Not shown: Mercy as Fang.