Halloween

Well, it has been a week of parties and candy galore! Wednesday night Sarah, Katelyn and I decorated the house with paper bats and ghosts made out of sheets and a whole bunch of pumpkins! (they're green instead of orange here.) Lum, Fadi, and Maimu thought it was quite absurd, of course, just one more bizarre thing we crazy white people think is fun! But it was very fun; Brittany came over and we carved our pumpkins and had dinner and lots of candy, then Lum's beautiful apple pie! It was her first one, and of course it looked like it came out of a magazine, and tasted even better! The only downer is that there isn't any vanilla ice cream here to go with it! :(

Then Thursday we did Halloween round 2! A missionary couple, the Lexes, came over for dinner and so did the Newburns and Samuel Dibbet, a missionary kid who lives on the same hill we do. They couldn't do it Wednesday, so we left up the decorations and saved the apples to make caramel apples! Wunderbar! We all dressed up, and the girls even got into it once they saw we enjoyed it so. :) The crowning moment was when Mama and Papa Karissa came out dressed up as each other! Bahaha. Maimu ran away screaming at first, then laughing so hard she fell down.

After so much excitement and fun, it was nice to have a quiet pizza and movie night to ourselves last night. And now the house is full of people again, like it usually is on the weekends, with Carol back, Yunu staying till Sunday, and Simon, Nelly, and Rashi popping in and out. Some of us (me included, I admit) didn't get very much work done this week with all the festivities and such, so I've spent the morning doing school and figuring out which classes I need to take next semester and beyond... oh so fun. But it must be done! And I hope all of you are well and happy and having a beautiful Saturday! Ta ta for now!

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