Halloween

Last week was another tropical Halloween with two dinosaurs in tow. We had done the tuk-tuk trick or treating around town the weekend before (scheduled 10 days before Halloween to avoid the slew of holidays and long school vacations in late October and early November). Ben stayed home to give out candy while Ellie, Liz, and I went trick or treating. Unfortunately, Ellie is not a fan of the "trick" part of the process, and was very frightened by some of the scary costumes. We came home after about 45 minutes, and Ellie hid from the trick or treaters who came to our house.

Hey, kids, leave that for the trick or treaters!

Coolasaurus and fishing-o-saurus

New this year was trick or treating at our fabulous new embassy. We had a lot of fun going from office to office, though again, anything scary met with Ellie's disapproval. Everyone guessed Ellie was a chicken. I guess people just don't expect yellow dinosaurs. C'est la vie--that's what happens when you let kids choose the colors on their costumes.

Embassy kids ready for trick or treating

I'm protecting the kids from those scary spidermen behind us.

Ben in the pumpkin patch
(Those pumpkins are really our diplomatic pouch bags! That's how your mail gets to us...though usually sans faces)

Smile-o-saurus

Even the Ambassador gets involved.