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Halloween
Posted By Elad Ganot on November 16th, 2008
There’s no better sign that things start getting crazy than the fact I’m writing today about an event that happened two weeks ago (instead of writing about the amazing >play conference that just ended, but a dedicated post will arrive soon and that’s a promise!). Anyhow, I proudly present our first Halloween report!
Preparations
As I may have stated in some of my previous posts, people here do things seriously, and this definitely applies also to holidays. For weeks before the actual date our street started to be painted with orange, black and white - orange for the pumpkins, black for the witches and white for the ghosts, skeletons and fake spider webs (as if the area is missing real monster spiders!).
We also wanted to prepare, so we bought tiny light bulbs for our windows (which the cats enjoy 
very much!) and tons of candy for the “trick or treat” parade. We were strictly following the rule which states that only store-wrapped candies are allowed as there are lots of horror stories about poisoned candies. We couldn’t really tell what’s true and what are urban legends, however, parents here take this really seriously.
Trick or Treat!
As it got darker, some of the decorated houses turned out to be multimedia enables, with sound, lights and smoke effects. Around 7pm (you don’t write 19:00 in America - just one more of those things) the kids started to come. It was really fun except for the fact that Noozie didn’t appreciate their costumes as much as we did and decided to happily bark on each and every visitor. Being the big dog she is, we had to split roles with one of us serving the candies and the other holding Noozie while desparately trying to take pictures.
As you should expect by now (if you’ve read this blog in the past), Haas students have organized a huge costumes party in San Francisco to celebrate Halloween. Unfortunately, we couldn’t attend it this year, but we did manage to conclude an exciting evening watching a movie with our amazing friends from the village.
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November 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
“tiny light bulbs for our windows (which the cats enjoy very much!) and tons of candy for the ‘trick or treat’ parade” which (I may suspect) the dog enjoy very much.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:17 am
This just occurred to me. Knowing your dog, I have a hunch that her happily barking on the kids gave them quite a scare. So, in some sense, you gave those kids a treat AND a trick.
November 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Oh yes. True Halloween spirit spread by Noozie!