Happy Halloween!

Halloween? In Korea? Well, no not usually but anywhere there are Americans, there will be Halloween.  And why not? It's such a great holiday why would anyone want to do without?

Halloween's lack of popularity here makes it somewhat difficult to find traditional Halloween necessities so Trevor and I did the best we could with what we already had.  We dressed up as Anna and Kristoff from Frozen.  Not only do we both already resemble these two characters, but Frozen is extremely popular in Korea so I was so excited to make our costumes work.  Sadly, they did not get raving reviews.  In fact, we had to help almost everyone guess who we were supposed to be.  I thought we were a little more obvious than that but oh well, I liked our costumes!

So, what better way to spend midday Halloween dressed as Anna and Kristoff then at the ice rink???  I thought it was pretty fun and a good date idea.  I guess nobody else got it.  They were probably all wondering why I would wear a dress ice skating.  Once again, I thought it was clever so that's what counts, right?

In regards to the video, what Trevor means is that I can go a little bit faster than him.  Not that I'm great a ice skating.  Although I enjoyed the comment about the pink streak :)

The main event for our Halloween was the church party organized by the missionaries in our branch.  There was a cake walk, bean bag toss, fish pond, bobbing for apples, put your hand in the boxes of "brains", "eyeballs", "guts", etc, pumpkin pinatas, and a haunted house.  The kids went absolutely crazy! It seemed like they really enjoyed it.

Trevor and I were in charge of the cake walk and most of the kids who participated thought it best to run around in the circle as frantically as possible and then push and shove onto a number when the music stopped.  Every once in a while when there were more numbers than kids, Trevor would call out a number and nobody would be on that number so at least one kid would make a dive for the number trying to be the winner.  They were pretty nuts!

Unfortunately, I hadn't been feeling that good so we decided to go home a little bit early.  They had brought out all the food at the very end and everyone was going to have dinner once all the kids went through the haunted house.  I don't know if they thought the kids would get done sooner or what but the food was out and sitting for a while and by the time the kids got done everything was cold.  We decided to grab a handful of candy and sneak out and have pizza at home while watching Nightmare Before Christmas.

All in all, I had a pretty good time and Trevor was such a good sport to go along with all my ideas (skating isn't his favorite thing to do).  Hope all of you had a good Halloween and enjoyed your extra hour of daylight savings time (if it applies to you). There isn't daylight savings time here so we will be an additional hour ahead of most of you back home.  Feel free to tell us in the comments about what you did for Halloween and write about or attach a picture of what you and your friends/family dressed up as!

My stash :)