After a late night partying on Halloween the next Day All Souls left us feeling like the walking dead. Sat was a holiday here so the streets were quiet and we were zombie like until half way through the day. I know I have spent many an hour lambasting the U.S. for the over commercialisation of Halloween but I really missed it here. For some years now I have associated Halloween with the start of a season. The clocks change/autumn segues into winter and we are hurtling towards Thanksgiving and Christmas with all the festivities lined up in a row it made me feel life was in order. Being in the Southern hemisphere and heading to summer makes me feel discombobulated. That said I did attend one of the best Halloween parties ever and I will be boastful and take some credit as it was I and 4 others who planned it. The main objective of the party was to raise funds for an orphanage so we have plenty of money to buy all 63 kids a Xmas gift and throw a Xmas party with all the trimmings.
For the Halloween party we used a friends huge back garden and rented everything from cutlery to wine glasses, charged an entry fee/ made all the food ourselves/the guests brought their own booze and we provided soft drinks. We sold 200 tickets (not bad for the new girl in town). The costumes were amazing, the decorations looked very proffesional, we raffled off donations from restaurants and hotels and partied until dawn. I knew it was time to leave when the pool had more bodies than the dance floor and my feet were numb from dancing. The next day was very apptly named the day of the dead as none of us felt lively until tea time.
I am in search of photos to post as I never took any but friends did and I loved my Flamenco costume. Wearing the dress does not make one an instant swayer of hips and flips but my feet bear many blisters so I obvioulsy took on the role in earnest.
3 comments:
Good on you to make your own Halloween fun -- and raise some money in the process. I agree; it must be very dislocating to have the seasons switched around. Halloween always feels, so appropriately, like the beginning of the early evenings/dark days period.
Sounds great, I for one love costume parties.
btw - the hangman game at the bottom of your page is addictive.
Bee, I still have the photo of our little chicas at the C.C Halloween party on the fridge door! I see you are using the dark days to be productive and bake black cake.
BSR. I will use any excuse to put my glad rags on and party hearty. As for that Hangman game it is far too distracting and means I do not spend as much time blogging as I should like.
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