My First Year In America...: Halloween in America

Minnesota

What a crazy holiday... Halloween is definitely not big in Fiji, so this was yet again an interesting experience. I loved all the adults dressing up and the cute trick-or-treating kids

Book Club's Halloween Get-together (Oct 23rd)

This was a fun night - All the ladies (members of the neighborhood Book Club) arrived dressed up - we had snacks to nibble on and hot apple cider to drink. This was my first experience of Halloween in America and it was great.... That evening everyone sat around the table eating snacks and telling 'scary' stories!

After scrounging around in Cindy's costume closet I found what I needed to become BIRD WOMAN!

There's a ghost in the yard!

bird-lady and a flapper from the 1920s!

Group shot L-R: Banana, Pirate, Flapper 1, Cat, Amelia Earhart (her costume was remarkable - too bad I don't have a better photo of it), Flapper 2, Bird woman, woman in pajamas!

Making Jack-O-Lanterns (Oct 30th)

We picked out our pumpkins a week before...

Slimy seeds: Growse!

I picked the Cat stencil

Ready to be carved

This is the first pumpkin I've ever carved!

Tah-dah!

And here is Cindy's jack-o-lantern that she designed :)

Halloween at Syngenta (Oct 31st)

Halloween at work was awesome! Where else in the world do adults dress up like crazy people and then go into work?! It was fun to see what everyone turned up wearing - some were very creative and some not so much. Halloween was a great way to start my last week of working in Minnesota... That Friday, on my last day of work, I received a framed photo of our group shot on Halloween and a card signed by everyone. #There are amazing people everywhere! I had a great experience working in the Quality Assurance Dept.


L-R: BACK: Alice, Ghost (Rachel), Greek goddess (Jacquie), Coach Sue Sylvester (Lissa), Witch (Becky), Monk/ Hobbit (Jesse), Makita (bird lady), Witch 2 (Bobbi), Pumpkin-face man (Skip). MIDDLE: Cat (Laurie), Cowgirl (Kathryn), Frankenstein (Hope), Skull-face (Mary), Waitress Flo (Ellen), Pirate (Johnna), Pippy Longstocking (Sarah). FRONT: Construction worker (Carol), Obama (Brent), Skeleton (Cindy M), Lab Tech (Cindy W), Corn Looney (Jeannie).