Halloween overseas

In the big city and as we traveled internationally last month we saw a few signs of Halloween, in costumes or masks for sale here or there.  In the small town of Barat there isn't a single sign of this very western Holiday.  As our boys are 'third culture kids' (growing up in a culture other than their parents culture; resulting in a culture of their own) we desire to enable them to integrate into this culture well, but also understand the American culture.  So as part of that, we had our own, slightly different, Halloween celebration!

Our Jack-O-lantern!
Pumpkins are readily available year around, but we could only find wide and very squatty ones.  So we chose a better shape, but a different piece of produce, a watermelon!  It was much easier to carve out, but maybe messier.  We thoroughly enjoyed the insides along with candy corn from a recent package!

Trying out the Jack-O-Lantern. 
And explaining to the neighbors what in the world we were doing.  Right after this picture, the little boy in the middle grabbed the 'stem' and started eating it.  Sometimes I worry what our neighbors think as we 'play' with food: mung beans for example that I provided for Whitman to play with and ended up in his ear.

At night! 
I was a little hesitant to leave is outside as I thought a random kid might come by and get a little too curious.  It was still there in the morning though, and not covered in ants! 
Sometimes I think these little celebrations resembling our home culture are more for me, Erin, than the kids, though they still get a kick out of them.