Halloween

Yes a little behind in terms of blog posts.... on October 31st we celebrated Halloween here in Bangalore. The kids had a halloween parade at school and we had trick or treating at the compound. Of course Rick wanted to be a pirate. 

 Kaat left the house as a butterfly but decided she did not like the outfit enough and managed to score a pink dress at school that matched all the other princesses.

  There were loads of princesses but not as many pirates. Most boys dressed up as....ehm...what again ? -;)

 Rick decided to just stay in character for the day and Kaat changed again. With papa dressed I send them on their way for some games in the new club house whilst I decorated our entrance and set up Duuk & Sarala with bowl of candy for the visiting trick or treaters.

 Even in the dark you can tell the club house is quite nice and a good place to wait for dark to come and do some pre-halloween games.

 As it was also Diwali weekend many houses were elaborately decorated with flowers and lights - not really just for Halloween. Rick & Kaat still easily remembered what to do.

So Rick was explaining Simeon at our American friends hose who of course has the best themed decoration for these kind of things.

Back at the clubhouse the kids ate pizza and played with the pond.

and there was halloween story time.

Kaat & Lila literally watching the music player, happy, tired & satisfied.

We finished packing our bags after and left for the airport a few hours later - with a very tired pirate. Bad news for us - which we did not know yet when we took this picture. It was the holiday weekend the the queue at immigration (to leave India) was 2 hours!