HAPPY HALLOWEEN

The end of October is here, and the laowais of Zhengzhou Foreign Language School decided to end the month right - with a Halloween bash to be remembered.
It started a week ago, when we began the countdown to Halloween with different horror movies every night. This was mostly for our awesome cousin Lili who has not watched many thrillers in her day. We started with Nightmare Before Christmas and Dracula,and ended with 30 Days of Night. It was a fun way to lead up to October 31st.

On the actual day day, we went and purchased watermelons to carve (because there are no pumpkins here for some reason). We took it very seriously... (well, Luke and Lili did). I created a very...well...normal looking watermelon and Luke took on the challenge of Snape. Sadly, most people mistook it for a tribute to Benjamin Franklin. I of course started to sing songs from the Broadway classic 1776 - and Luke was not too pleased with me. Anywho...



After that - we put together costumes. Luke decided his about two weeks ago and went as Wolverine. He was very true to the character and lifted weights for two weeks, dyed his hair black/brown and even shaved chops. He decided to make claws and probably did one of the best jobs I have ever seen. He can be so motivated. : )
I threw my costume together at the last minutes and went as Alice Cullen. Mostly because, vampires are easy to do. I was pretty excited to help out with everyone's costumes though and we ended the night with Bellatrix Lestrange, a pregnant Bella Swan, Rosalie Cullen and Jane Fonda.



We all went to dinner in costume and had plenty of Chinese people laughing at us. We didn't mind and totally ate it up. Luke told the waitress that we were vampires and she stayed away from Lili and I for the rest of dinner. Oh well - we weren't that hungry - yet.

Overall - it was a great night, made great but wonderful friends. I am posting some shots here, but you will also find them on our shutterfly site. So you can check them out if you would like!

Love you and I will keep you posted with our other exploits.