November 3, 2004
Halloween
Believe it or not, we went Trick or Treating. The American International School sponsored a Trick or Treating activity. We paid a small fee, the school imported American candy and distributed it to houses in the Herzilya area (near Tel Aviv, about 1 hour south of Haifa). We were given a map of the houses and a sticker for Tyler to wear, so that the houses knew we had paid our fee.
Some of our friends in Herziliya had a purple unicorn costume that they said Tyler could wear. He was excited to try it on, but soon lost interest, so we were glad that we had brought Tyler's train engineer costume.
Tyler the Tank Engine DriverWe dressed Brooke up in her pig shirt.
Miss PiggyIt was beautiful weather. Brooke loved being outside. We were very glad we weren't back in Oregon because we would have frozen there. We told Tyler that he was lucky to be in Israel, because it's the best place to be when Halloween falls on a Sunday.
Out Trick or TreatingTyler loved it. At first he wasn't too sure about the whole idea and he asked to go home. But then he realized that he was getting candy so he wanted to keep going and going.
Running to the next houseThe highlight of our evening was Trick or Treating at the American Ambassador's house. The Ambassador was dressed up as a gorilla and his wife as the Statue of Liberty. The Ambassador asked how Tyler was doing and his wife let him pick two pieces of candy.
Another favorite part of the evening was finally getting to use the glow necklaces that Scott's mom sent. Tyler had so much fun that he has been taking them to bed every night since Halloween, even though they don't glow anymore.
Where is the candy?We thought that on slow weeks we would talk about some things that are interesting about living here. One thing has to do with parties at work. Scott noticed a few differences between work parties in the States and here in Israel. Last week there was a celebration at work for reaching an important milestone. Just like in the States, there was ice cream. However, unlike in the States, half of the ice cream was non-dairy (because of kosher rules), and they served wine.
Tyler-isms:
"beetles" - Skittles candy
"pita" - tortilla
"That's the wrong name." - When Scott told him he looked dapper
"I couldn't hear you." - I wasn't paying attention
"Your head's not a pillow" - When Scott tried to get Tyler to sleep on his shoulders.
"If I find more pumpkins, I get more candy!" - Figuring out that houses with pumpkins had candy.
"black butterfly" - Plastic Halloween spider
"Green Pumpkin" - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown