Happy Halloween

These are not Halloween decorations. These are real spiders that we see everywhere lurking around our neighbourhood. They are massive and they spin enormous webs. We don't see them as much now that the weather is chillier, but they have freaked us out a number of times and we let them get us in the Halloween spirit. But for now, we're all Halloween'd out. For the past week, we've been doing activities and games to celebrate Halloween, with carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating and painting faces, and now that October 31st is actually here we have nothing left to do except eat the candy we kept from the kids. And we're doing that with no trouble at all. We keep reminding ourselves that we wouldn't eat 4 chocolate bars in a row without barfing or having cramps or having a sugar rush that leaves our heads spinning. So why do we think it's okay with Halloween candy? We have no problem wolfing down the equivalent of 5 or 6 bars as an after-dinner snack when those same chocolate bars are put into bite-sized pieces.

The jack o' lanterns at the school are starting to stink and their teeth are rotting out of their mouths, but here is a display of some of the carvings we did before they began deteriorating.









I know that day light savings time ended in Canada and the clocks were set back one hour on Saturday (everyone else mentioned this in their blogs, so I guess it's mandatory). We didn't have that luxury. There is no daylight to save in Korea and we will desperately be awaiting our one hour of extra sleep until we return back home, because it just isn't happening here. Until then, we will continue to gorge ourselves on candy. And if anyone has pictures of their little trick-or-treaters, Jenn would gladly accept them to add to her wall o' pictures.