HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEN!
Monday, October 31, 2011
I AM SO EXCITED TO WRITE THIS POST!!! I'm so excited because we celebrated our first halloween last night and it might have been the best halloween that anyone's ever celebrated EVER... at least in Nepal that is. At one point last night my dad looked at me and said something along the lines of "you are soooo my daughter." I come from a family who is really into Halloween and dressing up, and playing pretend so I sort of can't believe it's taken me this long to introduce this holiday over here.
SO, we turned Kopila into a haunted house last night. The kids got into the Halloween spirit and worked on their costumes all day. Turns out my cousin Julia is pretty good at whipping costumes up out of nowhere. She spent the entire day making costumes with VERY limited resources and as for our new principal Jeff, well he just happens to be the best face painter of all time. I think he has a good fall back career in the works. I still don't know who donated the face painting kit that I just happened to have sitting around in my room but rest assured, last night it was put to very good use! Thank you!
Now first check out the costumes...
Y, the great white shark. (My favorite, thrown together by Julia and me in 2.4 seconds. Tell me he's not the cutest shark you're ever seen)
S pulled off the best vampire I've ever seen. He even had the evil laugh down. He also spent a great portion of the day searching the whole city for vampire teeth to no avail. He won a prize for best halloween spirit!
S (also a prize winner) a.k.a. S the wizard spent the evening casting spells.
N, A, G, and little N The princess brigade. They made all of those costumes without a sewing machine. Say what?
S (prize winner!) spent all week working on her costume with a handmade crown and fairy wings.
K, the lion man. (Thanks to Uncle Ed for his old t-shirts!)
M, the JOKER! The perfect costume for M if you know this kid.
S, the elephant
Wendy and Peter Pan (Julia and N) ready to fly off into Never Never Land.
Jeff... Principal turned Ninja turtle
H was Batman
S was a growling tiger
ME, I was a killer bee and enjoyed running around the house stinging everyone with my pipe cleaner stinger.
AND THEN THERE WERE THESE SCARY SCARY LITTLE BOYS!!! Can we say FREAKY?!
N M
J
My only Halloween splurge was on this little outfit for N!! I couldn't RESIST!!! He's dressed up as an adult bank manager!
As for our haunted house, it probably should have been rated PG- 13. No joke. We had 2 of our teenage friend boys and Dhan Uncle hiding out around the house in the dark with their faces painted howling and screaming and jumping out to scare the kids. We turned all the lights off except for a few candles and divided all the kids up into 5 groups and set up 5 trick or treat rooms!! They all rotated trick-or-treating from room to room, each of which had a theme... My dad was a fortune teller, Uncle Ed was a one-eyed pirate with creapy music playing in his room. He just kept yelling "YOU TOOK MY EYE" in the scariest voice ever. I can't stop laughing every time I think about his costume and that voice that scared even me.
Julia made a pot of dark chocolate pudding, told the kids it was blood and made them taste it before they got their treat. ME, I am a pretty darn good witch if I do say so myself. I made a witches brew and told a scary halloween story and made the kids drink the magic (orange soda) potion before they could leave. In the middle of telling the story Sandip would jump out from inside my bedroom, start shaking the door and jump in and scare them. And then there was Jeff who attached a wire to his door so that it opened on its own, had one of the uncles hiding under the bed grabbing the kids, and made it look like their was a body on his bed under the sheet with pillows. We may have even gone just a little over board because we had to debrief the kids at the end of the night and tell them none of it was real and there are no such things as ghosts and witches and vampires and blah blah blah. At one point N almost peed his pants. I've never seen K so terrified in his life, and the baby just kept saying "bhayo, bhayo, bhayo" (finished, finished, finished!!!) Last night when it was time to go to bed Jeff and I both had 12 little sleeping darlings in our rooms. BUT IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!! WE HAD AN ABSOLUTE BLAST and gave out prizes at the end of the night for best costumes and halloween spirit.
Sabita came in my room tonight and asked if we could play Halloween again. Everyone's already talking about next year.
HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEN to you!!!
And a video by Grandfather.