This is Halloween

We carved our pumpkins! And considering we used butter knives and spoons, I'd say they turned out pretty good! We looked up jack-o-lanterns online and found the faces we wanted to carve. Rusty's goal was to make his pumpkin so scary that our neighbors come tell us it is scaring the children. Surprisingly enough, our neighbors never came by, but Rusty was able to make his pumpkin pretty scary haha.

We stacked the chairs on top of our patio table and put the pumpkins in the chairs, so our pumpkins can be seen by everyone who walks by! People would stop and stare and point. Olga from Eyenet said they were just like the movies. It's so crazy to think that the only time most people here have seen carved pumpkins is in the movies! I am glad that we were able to bring a little bit of America to Greece and I'm pretty sure the Greeks were too!

Caught a girl showing her dad our pumpkins and then taking a pic!

On Halloween Rusty and I dressed up as Greek Gods. Caysen, my nine-year-old brother gave me the idea. When I was Face-timing my family I asked him what we could be for Halloween and he said we could be Achilles and Athena. We decided the costumes would be easy enough to make, so we went to Jumbo, a store kind of like Wal-Mart, to look for white sheets. We weren't able to find sheets, but we did find $1 Christmas decorations that were perfect for Greek crowns, so we bought those, two stretchy headbands, and a glue gun.

We found a few fabric stores on the way to the center and bought the cheapest white fabric we could find. We found two meters of fabric for 10 euro. Rusty had practice on Halloween of course, so as soon as he got home, we got to work on our costumes. The Christmas decorations we got from Jumbo were plastic branches with little gold leaves on them, but the leaves weren't flat and smooth, they were made up of little gold bristles, so they were kind of hard to glue onto our headbands. Once the glue had dried, we wrapped the fabric around ourselves and put on our headbands. I added a gold belt I had. For it being last minute, I think our costumes turned out pretty good! Plus, they only cost $10 each!  

We went trick or treating at Jay's (the other American) apartment right above us. Rusty felt like it may be weird for us to walk around in public in our Greek costumes, so after trick or treating to one apartment, we decided to call it a night haha and watched some Halloween shows. Although it was hard not really being able to celebrate Halloween, it was cool to experience our first American holiday outside of the US, and who doesn't like an excuse to eat candy all day. Rusty and I tried to eat candy only all day, which lasted until lunch haha. We bought snickers, gummy bears, twix, and Greek chocolate. I have to admit I did miss the random candy you get trick or treating and don't really like, but end up eating anyway, like laffy taffys, smarties, and flavored tootsie rolls. Weird I know, but those candies are so nostalgic of Halloween. Well I hope everyone else had a great Halloween and ate lots of candy :)