[...It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark...]

trick or treats !

lisez moi en français !!

we've been expecting it for a while -a whole month with pumpkins EVERYWHERE from house porches to cookie boxes, and even clothes and linen-, and finally Halloween's here !!
yipeee !

since we didn't want to waste a single minute of it, we the AuPair started celebrating Halloween a week ahead, by going out to a costume party in New York City last saturday...

first, let me say that an event written "frite nite" makes me want to take my eyeballs out of their sockets with my own nails
could american people learn how to spell the english language, please ?

i know that it kind of looks like the guy would chose to spell "through" t-h-r-o-u-g-h was trying to cheat at scrabble, shortening is for texting, it is not ok in official context, for christ's sake !

anyway, we got dressed up for the "frite night" party
and i had decided to go as Elphaba, the "wicked witch" from the Wizard of  Oz, but in its Broadway version, Wicked

for those of you who don't see who that is, she is a misunderstood witch with green skin

acted here by the ever so marvellous Indina Menzel

so i got a black dress, ankle boots, a hat, and green make-up
expect it was really hard to put on, and the shade of green wasn't right, so it didn't look the way it was supposed to

i look like a alien from Mars

we went to NYC, lauralie and i ; ate our dunkin' donut grilled cheese (not good, i wouldn't advise it) at the red tables and chairs on Times Square
it was really cool to be in the middle of all that noise and lights, and billboards, and being there, sitting with our sandwitches like "yeah, whatever, times square doesn't impress me anymore, been there done that"

the sell clerks from Hersheys -they give free samples so i go religiously to the store each time i walk through Time Square- started talking to us, they were so nice and funny, one of them even came to me holding a glass of water threatening "beware, i have water and i'm not afraid to use it, you're gonna melt !"

then we walked all the way to Webster Hall, in the Village, to meet Tina, Liseann and i-don't-remember-what-she's-called, for our halloween partyyyy !

i think the dj was vaguely famous, that's the only explanation to charging 25 dollars to get inside.
but the decorations were cool : "blood" on the walls, spider webs on the ceiling, jack-o-lanterns...
also now i can say "oh yeah, when i used to go to nightclubs in New York...."

we had to leave quite early, since the last train to New Jersey is 1AM, but i wanted to take my heels off so bad that i really didn't care

anyway, it was a cool party :)


for the whole week, leena asked me how many days were left before halloween....so we made pumpkin, ghosts, and bats-shaped origamis, drawing monstres, made paper bags for treats, played to being monsters, read books about monstrers, watched the wizard of oz, and then re-enacted the story with wizard of oz plastic toys in the bath
...quite a halloween-themed week !

i am weirdly proud of my trick or treat bag

And finally, it was thursday !! leena had hesitated a lot, she wanted to be a princess, and then a vampire princess, then a witch, before changing again the night before for princess-fairy...

we had put on a bunch of decorations something like a month before, and i had carved my little pumpkin, so we were ready

and i went trick-or-treating with leena, two other kids, and their mothers

leena's stash

then i met my aupair friends at  Friendly's, a diner. we wanted to go out afterwards, but not everyone is 21, so we just went to lea's place to spend the evening chatting together, and it was really nice