This year we chose to do Halloween a little differently!
Yes, they have Halloween in China. Well, the Chinese don't have Halloween but the many Americans here and the ex-pat housing complex's all celebrate the Holiday. Sometimes some of the Chinese city schools bus their kids to the foreigner neighborhoods to partake of the sugary goodness given freely away. "Hey kids, we're not sure why but the crazy Americans are giving away candy! Let's go!"
I wasn't super excited about finding or making costumes this year. And besides, I think Halloween is a lame holiday (don't judge) - I do enjoy the dressing up part, except the evil stuff... The only reason kids enjoy it is because they are allowed to go begging door-to-door and consume large amounts of sugar.
So, we had a family meeting where a choice was given. We can A: Go trick-or-treating and have a "normal" Halloween. or B: choose an activity to do as a family and we'll throw in a bag of candy. The kids all unanimously chose B! Yay!
So we decided to go Ice Skating!
This ice skating rink is in Solana - one of the bigger malls.
Luke's favorite part: acting like a bowling ball to see how many times he could knock over his siblings...until he had to go sit a few laps out :)
We had so much fun!! And I know we will always remember the Halloween we went ice skating!
No comments:
Post a Comment