Sunday, November 1, 2009

Halloween in the UK

I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! It is definitely not as big of a holiday here in the UK. We started the day in a coffee shop on High Street and they were playing Christmas music - which I secretly enjoyed.

No big decorations were out, but we did see a few witches and princesses roaming the streets late afternoon. It was beautiful and blustery with leaves falling off the trees and swirling in the wind before settling like a blanket on the ground. Here is one of our favorite spots by the river.




Amber dressed up in about 5 different costumes just for fun. (I am sure she will post them on her blog shortly.) Alexa was planning on being Miley Cyrus - but the shirt she wanted to wear was in the washing machine. It's the first year they have not gone trick-or-treating. We only had one bunch of kids come to our door all night. A group of girls dressed up as mice in tutus. Needless to say - we have a lot of leftover candy.

So as the cold weather threatened rain outside, I made stew from scratch and we ate it with Yorkshire pudding while we snuggled under blankets watching Harry Potter (IV).

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We need a family Snuggie. That would rock!

Theresa said...

That sounds wonderful! Lindsey was blown away by all our halloween festivities and decorations, but said her family would rebel if she tried to institute such festivities at home. Stew from scratch! That sounds yummy!

Amber said...

Oh mom, your getting this hoplessly wrong, if you say you secretly enjoyed it , it's not so secretly anymore and I tried on at least 10 different outfits and you saidthe two girls were cats not mice... ;)