When the kids lived in Singapore they celebrated Halloween so they are extremely familiar with the concept, but it isn't very popular in France. There were no decorations, big bags of candy, costumes or anything, but the kids wanted them. I'm sure if I had really looked into it, I could have found some sort of Halloween celebration somewhere in Paris for kids with candy but like I said, I'm not super into Halloween (read: I got lazy).
This year, Halloween fell during the kids 2 week fall break. (Recall that French schools run for 6 weeks and then give kids a 2 week break throughout the school year.) The boys ended up going to a camp type thing that is set up by the Mayor of Paris in each school and it ran the entire day, so my schedule wasn't really changed, I just took them to the school and picked them up each night but didn't have school myself, which was nice. H went to a friends house for a week and L always does her own thing so I didn't have much to do. This whole set up was really convenient for me to just skip over celebrating with the kids. No one seemed to mind. We played dress up in their costumes and ran around for a bit. A was allowed to dress up to go to the school but he couldn't decide what costume to wear. We're kindred spirits, I guess. He packed a backpack with both a Spiderman costume and a knight costume so he could decide once we got there.
We walked into the school and he pulled on my hand and told me that he had decided he wanted to be Spiderman and asked if I could help him put it on before he saw his friends. That little Spiderman was so cute I couldn't stand it. He ran inside and I heard all of his friends tell him how cool he looked, it was adorable.
For grown up Halloween, WOS had a Zombie themed Halloween Party and my darling friend Pierre let me borrow a costume to wear, but I couldn't find anything that was witty or clever so I picked a prisoner and planned on putting on some zombie makeup but we couldn't find it, so... oh well. Katherine went as Laura Croft, Jen went as Catwoman/Zoro and Jo just wore a skirt?
There were some of the scariest and most disgusting looking zombies at this party. Francois was dressed so scary, people were covered in fake blood, there was a guy with an eyeball falling out, and all of the bartenders wore contacts that made their eyes so scary and like 8 different colors. I quickly realized that in France, Halloween is not the excuse girls use to wear skimpy (or occasionally witty) costumes. Halloween is supposed to be scary and let me tell you, it was.
Sorry that this blog post read like it was written by an 8 year old. I'm so exhausted.
More to come!
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