Halloween

Maya- Hermoine Granger (Harry Potter), Hanna- a Skeleton

We moved here in the middle of October, with Halloween right around the corner. Thankfully, we had connected with a (now) friend, Gretchen, who got us all signed up to do Trick or Treating in Amstelveen, near ISA, put on by the international families in that area. Although Trick or Treating is not really a Netherlands tradition (Halloween is celebrated all over Europe, but as a Scary holiday, and not celebrated here in the Netherlands), the Expat families did a great job of making it fun. The girls had 5 days of school under their belt, and did not really know anyone, but we dressed up and went anyway. We got some American candy, a lot of Netherlands candy and some weird candy as well (one guy- pretty sure he was Dutch, and just decided to hop in on the fun, as he was not on our house map) gave the girls 1 individual mento each...then he ran out and grabbed a candy bowl from his table and started handing everything in that out!

Pumpkins at a NORMAL price- 2Euro! In Tokyo we paid roughly $40/pumpkin