Halloween 07

So as I've mentioned in the past, Halloween doesn't really get a notice here. That's weird because they seem to incorporate most celebrations into their own - especially if they're fun!

So I held my second annual halloween party last night and in order to decorate I bought a bunch of pumpkins. I found last year that they actually have pumpkins here although they're green. They're called sitapal in hindi. So we went to Malviya Nagar market since the one we went to last year was closed down. This time I found three fairly big ones, good for carving and actually found two smaller orange ones which was exciting. I was going to have my friends over to carve but Doug mentioned inviting Tenzing's son over, which I thought was great idea. So friday night, Tenzing, her son, sister-in-law and nephew came over to carve pumpkins. The kids drew the faces (basically just the same as the one I did first to show them) and the adults cut. I thought they came out pretty well. (Tenzing's son is the one on the right). Although I didn't do a very good job of explaining why we were doing this - I hope they didn't think it was
work! I said they scared off ghosts...

When I was home this past July I found my old cheerleading jacket and so decided to be a cheerleader for halloween. Found some pon-poms in a toy store before I came back and went to the fabric store to get the makings for the skirt. It was actually funny to try to explain how thick the fabric needed to be. I finally reverted to the fabric used in cricket to describe it. Since this is holiday season (with Durga Pooja and Diwali, amongst others) the tailor took forever to do it! And they had no idea what I wanted - and why I would want this (not knowing what cheerleaders or halloween were). I picked up the skirt about 6 hours before the party and it wasn't quite what I wanted but close enough..... It's still in the 90s here so the jacket was a little warm to wear all night!