Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween in Beijing

While Halloween is certainly known about over here...it is definitely nowhere near the Holiday it is in the U.S.  There is a very small aisle of Halloween stuff you can buy (not the candy) at the Merry Mart and the students celebrate with a Halloween dance...but for the most part it is non-existant.  However, I couldn't resist having a little Halloween this year. 

I started by purchasing a small baking pumpkin at Merry Mart (the big pumpkins you find in the U.S. are nowhere to be found).  Doing the best I could...with the tools I had available (my main tool of choice was a chopstick...lol) this is what I came up with :-)
I was able to save the seeds and toast them in my little toaster oven for a delicious Halloween snack...
And then I finished the night with a couple of Halloween favorites...
Garfield's Halloween and The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown...couldn't get any better than that for a Halloween right?

Zaijian,
Gary

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