It's good to know that Halloween in the expat communities in India is alive and well. Houses are decorated, pumpkins carved, spooky music bellows down the streets and kids are decked out in costume. We had two opportunities to celebrate in Bangalore. First we checked out a party sponsored by the Overseas Women's Club at a local hotel. The kids were a little old for the group, however we did get to do some rock climbing, hold a baby goat and win a ghost cake. All was not lost.
On Halloween, we headed over to some friends house for a light Indian dinner and some good French wine. The host travels to Paris frequently and was kind enough to share a bottle of Bordeaux from a recent trip; I lapped it up. Then we let the kids loose in Palm Meadows (our neighborhood) for 2 hours of trick or treating. Ms. Starburst (a.k.a. Emma) joined a bag of Peanut M&Ms (a.k.a. Sonia), Will dressed as Uncle Sam (no pictures available) found his friends and Ironman (Nolan who refused to wear the mask) joined Percy Jackson and an Arabian Night. We draped fake spider webs across our landscape, hung paper pumpkins in the trees, placed our illuminated pumpkins on the laws and handed out American Candy. Apparently the kids like to trick or treat in Phase 1, which has the bigger houses, but we still got our fair share of kids in Phase 2. Doug and I decided to leave the bowl of candy on the porch and took a stroll with our pup to check out the houses and see the action. We ended the night with a family movie.
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