Halloween in Germany

okay, it's not Halloween yet, but we did get to go to a Halloween party put on by the American Women's Club.

Halloween is funny here because it's not really a German thing, but people seem to have adopted it. There is a big Halloween bash planned in downtown Duesseldorf and all the area zoos will be having different events--kind of like our Boo at the Zoo. It's a great excuse for Germans to party because November 1 is All Soul's Day and a holiday. Nobody has to get up to go to school or work!

The British ex-pats here do Halloween except the costumes are always spooky. Never cute. Can you guess who the American kid is in this picture?

I was working at one of the games at the party with an English woman and she described the candy corn we were giving away as a prize as "some bizarre American Halloween candy." Guess Candy corn is not big in the UK.

There were prizes given away for the best costumes. This was my pick. I guess even witches sometimes need maternity clothes!

More to come about Halloween. I'm carving pumpkins on Monday for the prep and first grade classroom tables. They had to get the American moms to do it because the English, Dutch, German, Japanese and Korean moms have never done it before!