Trick or Treat

We enjoyed handing out candy this year on Halloween. The holiday is becoming popular here in Chile but really most people have no clue what it is all about. We had a good amount of people come to our house for candy. They were all intrigued again with our jack-o-lanterns and several posed for pictures with the pumpkins.

Looking a little tired on this Halloween night.  We sat outside out house for almost 5 hours because it is such a pain to run to the gate whenever the trick or treaters ring the bell.  And it more fun seeing all the children as they approach the strange house with the lit pumpkins.

Can you see how tiny her trick or treat bag is?  Most children had these little bags that held practically nothing.  Good thing all the candy they give out is tiny too.

Even the parents ask for candy.  It's a family affair.

Some of the best costumes of the night.

I think this little pumpkin had an accident while she was trick or treating.

She couldn't figure out where the light was coming from.

She had a knife in her head  and I had to get a picture with her.

Kids are the same everywhere.

Waiting for the kids to arrive.  Isn't our wall lovely?

Princesses are popular here too.

I tried to figure out how to say make-up and no one understood me.  But their make-up was the best of the night.

The stray dog in the picture became our friend for the evening when he came up to Leland and dropped a tennis ball sized rock at Leland's feet.  The dog wanted to play fetch with a rock!!!  That's how we roll in Chile.  So we found a tennis ball in the house and Leland and the missionaries played fetch with this mutt for almost an hour - until he ran away with our ball.

These middle school aged kids just wanted one of the pumpkins.  They came back to the house several times and at the end of the night I gave them their choice of a pumpkin.

And then they posed with their pumpkin.

A long night of trick or treating.  Love the parent's costume, belly and all.

At the end of the night the missionaries came by to see their lit pumpkins.  I'm sure they wanted some candy too.

And of course I had bags of U.S. candy for them.

Elder Chacon with his first ever jack-o-lantern.

Elder Ceballos wanted a picture with his pumpkin too.

Our ghoulish pumpkins.

The kids with their new pumpkin.

By 10:00 we were done with handing out candy.  The people here stayed up all night and fortunately didn't attack our house when we turned out the lights.  I did forget to take my witch inside and found it in the street the next day.  That was the only prank shared with us on this Halloween.