Halloween in Singapore is different than the Halloweens I had as a kid. When I was a kid my mom made us wear a turtleneck, jacket and leggings of some sort under our costume. We had to roll out the door to go trick-or treating. That made sense though - it was cold and damp on Halloween nights in Seattle! In Singapore it is damp but that's only b/c you're sweating a river the second you walk outside in your costume.
This year was one of our best of the 4 Halloweens we've celebrated in Singapore now. The first year we had just moved in a couple of weeks before Halloween and we heard that we needed a lot of candy. So, we bought 1,000 pieces. It was gone so fast that the second year we had about 1,500 pieces. You get the pattern...this year we had 3,000 pieces ready to go. Luckily for us Mike's company provided the candy this year. The cases of lollipops with princess bookmarks attached to them were a big hit.
We also had a huge Princess Sign in front of our house with Snow White, Cinderella & Belle on it advertising the 3 Classic Fairy Tales Live show that is coming to Singapore Nov.18-23.
We all had fun. We had the same 3 families over for dinner as last year with the same menu: Pumkin, Chicken Noodle and Tortilla Soups. Eating hot soup before trick-or-treating in Singapore is kind of pointless but I turn the air-cons on full blast so we feel a little bit of a chill as we slurp and it reminds me a little bit of those cold, fall nights in Seattle.
When everyone was tired of the crowds they headed back to our house for swimming and sorting through the candy. There's a lot of sorting to do - what are people thinking giving out cough drops? Mike jumped off of the second level of our house into the pool with his costume on which all of our guests enjoyed. It was reminiscent of last Christmas Eve when Santa fell off his sleigh into our pool.
