Ok so the entire month of November there was no entry, I have meant to write, but always find some excuse such as too much school work to put it off. Now it's just a great procratination tool to stop me from doing work :D
I meant to share the excitement of an American Halloween with you all, the frivolities and the obscurities of it all, the over the topness and insane amount of money that people spend, and the plain weirdness that is Halloween.
Growing up in Australia I was aware that October 31st constituted as Halloween, the day where some dress up and go trick or treating, not that any of us ever did it for the fear of being kidnapped and found in a shallow grave two weeks later, body decomposing and maggot ridden... Halloween is the second most celebrated holiday in the US and boy do they celebrate it. Houses are decorated with pumpkins and jack-o-laterns, spiders and mood lighting (did you know there are colours for Halloween? Black and orange I think, like red and green for christmas!). Not to mention the endless amount of Halloween parties, it's just an excuse to drink really. At these parties people go WAY over the top, everyone's dressed up in some expensive costume bought from a costume store (these places must make a fortune around this time), ranging from french maids, to little red riding hoods, vampires, witches etc. Some are more creative, throwing together whatever they have, or just plain politically incorrect, like that Steve Irwin outfit with a stingray through the heart, and blood everywhere...
Another tradition is to walk through a haunted house and have the living crap scared out of you from people jumping out behind doors, and skeletons and vampires and witches floating around, stabbing you with foam knife or something... weird
The bars are packed, really just an excuse to drink... but there are giveaways for the best costumes, and special events and prizes, how can you resist a trip to the bars at Halloween?
It was fun, even though crazy and over the top. But it's America, I would have disappointed if it wasn't a little crazy!
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