Happy Halloween

And how was your Halloween? Lots of Halloween fun over here.

We carved a pumpkin over the weekend.

I baked some cupcakes for Katie's class to decorate. And yes I did it and not Anna. They didn't turn out too bad (which is another way of saying that they didn't turn out too good). Actually they were OK tasting but a bit...dense...I'd guess you'd say. And they were on the smallish size as they didn't rise as much as one would expect them too. It wasn't until Halloween morning, as we were preparing to bring them to school, that we figured out why.
Anna: "How did you finally figure out how to measure the butter?"
Me: silence for 5 seconds "Ya...uh...apparently I forgot to put in the butter."

You see, butter doesn't come in nice easy to measure "sticks" over here and plus you have to convert from metric to English measurement and it's a semi-solid which makes measuring it even more difficult. So I had set the butter aside with the intention of calling Anna to ask her advice on how to measure/convert/etc. and never got back to it.

After school Katie summed things up nicely:
Me: "So did you guys decorate the cupcakes this morning?"
Katie: "Yes. Someone else brought in cupcakes that were bigger so I picked one of them."

See how smart she is.

VJ is off from school this week so he and I went to Katie's school for the Halloween Parade and Assembly.

Katie's Class

Katie and her good friend Shiraz.
Katie and Maté

Then that evening we all went Trunk or Treating! That's right I said Trunk or Treating. The event was held at the big campus of Katie's school. We parked our car in the parking lot and everyone opened their trunks (which eveyrone had decorated). The kids went from car to car Trunk or Treating. It was pretty cool and the kids had a lot of fun. You could tell which kids weren't American by their really small Halloween bags. Afterwards we had dinner in the school cafeteria.

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