{"id":176,"date":"2011-11-01T10:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T10:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebigmove.ca\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-11-04T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T17:47:41","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebigmove.ca\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As most people who know me will remember &#8211; I do NOT like Halloween. \u00a0It has to be my least favorite day of the year &#8211; that is until this Halloween.<\/p>\n<p>Halloween here is a fun time. \u00a0Children (and adults) get dressed up and go out trick or treating from about 5 o&#8217; clock onwards. \u00a0People decorate their houses with lights and pumpkins. \u00a0If you have a pumpkin on your step or any kind of Halloween decoration up you are fair game for trick or treat.<\/p>\n<p>We took a drive around to see what decorations people had put up. \u00a0It really did vary from the very modest to the extreme. \u00a0We stopped outside one house in the village and could not believe what they had done. \u00a0Their whole house had been turned into a hospital &#8211; a haunted hospital of course. \u00a0We had to go inside and have a look. \u00a0It was great &#8211; they had turned each room into a different dept from a hospital. \u00a0We went to X-ray, surgery, the pharmacy, the doctor and the waiting room. \u00a0We spoke to the ladies that had organised it, and put in all the hard work, and they told us that it had been in the making for a whole month &#8211; now that&#8217;s dedication. \u00a0We took some photos but somebody also took a video and uploaded it to You Tube &#8211; you can find it here&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uu6c91SYvYk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We had been told to expect a few visitors and so we stocked up on jelly body parts and crisps and waited&#8230;.. \u00a0As we were waiting we decided that the house didn&#8217;t look like it was &#8216;open for Halloween&#8217; so we got a couple of lanterns and put them on the steps, we turned the trees lights on, put up a little gravestone, shredded some black bin liners and attached them to the roof of the porch and then changed the normal bulb for a red one &#8211; it was all true Blue Peter fashion (we were just missing the washing up liquid bottle). \u00a0And then they started arriving&#8230;&#8230;and they kept coming&#8230;.and coming&#8230;. and coming&#8230;&#8230;.by the end of the night we had had 89 trick or treaters.<\/p>\n<p>Each and every person, vampire, ghost, skeleton, fairy, pirate, monkey, bunny and witch that came to the door had made a real effort to make their costume fab and above all they were really polite. \u00a0We had one little visitor, Dracula, who showed me his teeth when he got to the door &#8211; I told him he was very scary and so he very quickly removed the teeth as he didn&#8217;t want to scare me anymore &#8211; how sweet is that.<\/p>\n<p>The emergency services also put on a haunted house. \u00a0They took over the old grain elevator and turned it into some kind of scary event. \u00a0It proved to be very popular &#8211; we watched as car after car arrived at the car park to go to the grain elevator (we can see it from the deck on the back of the house we are staying in) and then heard the screams of the people who were inside.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most people who know me will remember &#8211; I do NOT like Halloween. \u00a0It has to be my least favorite day of the year &#8211; that is until this Halloween. 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