Halloween--Part 1

This year's Halloween was the most traditional we've had since moving to the ME. In Kuwait our celebration consisted of the Young Women throwing a Halloween party for the primary. It was a fantastic party but not what we would normally do for Halloween. Then in Jordan our older kids planned a party. We invited some friends from the branch over and had our little party at our house.

A week before Halloween we were invited to a Halloween party by a branch member--Charline Eastin. She has two primary aged children. We heard it's sort of an annual tradition and this party is great. And it was great. It was like a huge carnival without having to spend any money! There were several giant huge blow-up apparatus things for the kids to play on. There was all the cotton candy and popcorn you could eat for free. And it was a potluck where we grilled burgers and such and ate a ton of food.

Somehow though we missed the memo that the majority of people don't dress up for this event. It didn't take long for the kids to shed their costumes but unfortunately I was wearing this hideous witches' hat and my hair would have been even more hideous if I would've taken it off so I was stuck wearing the hideous hat for the entire party. I blame Todd. I wasn't going to wear a costume but Todd insisted that we'd be the only ones without one. His Aragorn costume was one he could just throw on when we got to the party. But once there we saw that no other adult had on a costume so he conveniently decided it'd look stupid to wear a costume. So there I was.

Here's a picture of the kids waiting in line for the bungee cord run game.



After the party we took advantage of being near the Nile and decided to go for a felucca ride. We'd heard about how peaceful and cheap they are. However, ours wasn't cheap or peaceful. Doing something with just the family though was fun nonetheless. Turns out, we didn't take a felucca ride but instead got on some motor-boat type thing. The motor was loud and after an hour and a half on the boat it wasn't very peaceful. We have since learned the difference between the motor-boats and the feluccas and we're looking forward to a felucca ride sometime. We started in the late afternoon and by the time we were back the sun had set and it was dark. So to be out on the Nile on a boat we couldn't have picked a more perfect time.
Here we are at the beginning of the ride:



*Sidenote: I did bring a hat and change of clothes along in anticipation of the boat ride so I was no longer wearing the witch costume. I could've changed at the party but decided that changing at the party would only highlight my lack of self-confidence.