Halloween was celebrated this past Saturday. I can't say (and also doubt) that it's widely celebrated in China, but it certainly was here. Our current residential area includes a number of folks from the US, Australia, Germany, Japan, France, India, and so on. I think in an effort to make the kids of these families feel like they aren't missing out, the residential area puts on a number of holiday/festival traditions for them. We saw photos up in the welcoming area of Santa visiting in December last year, of dragon dancing for Chinese New Year, and last year's Halloween costume contest. All the kids and parents dressed up, some in matching costumes.
Halloween streamers over the pool. I thought if someone wanted to win the costume contest for sure, they should dress up as a dolphin and actually jump in the pool.
Earlier in the day, Husband and I had gone out scavenging for costume ideas. We had no idea what to dress up as, but thought we'd wander around and get inspired (effective, right?)
Just as in the US, if you know where to go, if you find what you want. But here we obviously don't know where to go, so we ended up finding shops with linens, buckets and bags.
Ended up in a back alley that led in a circle...
And then found our way to a wide open square by a massive shopping mall. From not-so-well-off area to very-well-off area in one block. While there are clear socio-economic divides, they are geographically very close.
Jusco - the grocery store we frequent. Some Jusco's also have a clothing/appliance section, but most are just grocery stores.
Cutie kids running around, being photographed by their adoring parents.
Success! After lunch at The Spaghetti House (where all the waitstaff were wearing devil horns or witch hats, and we convinced them to give us an extra pair of devil horns), the Jusco came through for us with a pitchfork for Husband's costume, and green fairy wings and a wand for mine.
Building on the way home. I like the gold advertising (I assume it's advertising...any Cantonese/Mandarin readers?)
Happy Halloween!
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