Happy Harroween!

Tonight I will be sitting on the front porch handing out candy to little ghouls and goblins. I haven't done that in years. Last year I was living in Dublin and although no one goes trick-or-treating, the sky is full of flashes of light from fireworks. Apparently Halloween is a big day for fireworks in Ireland. You can't buy them in the Repulic of Ireland so most people drive to Northern Ireland and buy them there. I remember standing in the windows of my livingroom last year and watching as the sky was lit up like the bombing of Baghdad, with loud
cracks pounding every other second. The previous year I was living in Osaka, Japan. They don't do the Halloween thing there but there are plenty of decorations which go up around the beginning of September. I saw a lot of Snoopy dolls dressed up in costumes. It was strange. It was fun talking to students about the holiday but they just couldn't grasp the concept. It's definitely a difficult one to explain. This photo is from my last Halloween in Canada, circa 2003. My friends and I went bowling and then out for drinks. From left to right we have Chuck as a box of cereal, Sarah as a sexy cat, Laura as a hipster, Hance is Clint Eastwood from one of his numerous westerns, I'm a cowgirl (which co-incidentally was what I wanted to be when I grew up when asked at school at age 3), and Katy on the end is a sheriff. We went cosmic bowling and I managed to bowl at least twice before the tight jean skirt I was wearing split up the middle to about an inch from my...I had to sit down for the rest of the night. Wicked. Boo!