Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween. It's a big event here, leading off a couple days of religious holidays, with All Saints' Day on November 1 and All Souls' Day on November 2. Today's a holiday, too, which means it's been a marvelously quiet day in this perpetual construction site.
Our neighborhood sponsors a contest for residents who decorate their homes for Halloween, with a grand prize of P10,000 -- about $185 -- going to best-decorated house.
Some houses have been decorated for weeks, but this one, just a few blocks from our house, sprang up recently. The picture isn't as good as it could have been, but the display is truly impressive. Somebody put a lot of work into this.
Filipinos traditionally head to the cemeteries this time of year to celebrate their ancestors' lives. Apparently, it becomes quite a party, leading at least one of the national newspapers to run an article urging people not to turn the country's cemeteries into garbage dumps this week.
I'm keeping my eyes open for trick-or-treaters tonight, but we're pretty well off the beaten path, so I don't expect to see too many.
(I finally found a work-around to the missing USB cable, so stay tuned for photos!)
Our neighborhood sponsors a contest for residents who decorate their homes for Halloween, with a grand prize of P10,000 -- about $185 -- going to best-decorated house.
Some houses have been decorated for weeks, but this one, just a few blocks from our house, sprang up recently. The picture isn't as good as it could have been, but the display is truly impressive. Somebody put a lot of work into this.
Filipinos traditionally head to the cemeteries this time of year to celebrate their ancestors' lives. Apparently, it becomes quite a party, leading at least one of the national newspapers to run an article urging people not to turn the country's cemeteries into garbage dumps this week.
I'm keeping my eyes open for trick-or-treaters tonight, but we're pretty well off the beaten path, so I don't expect to see too many.
(I finally found a work-around to the missing USB cable, so stay tuned for photos!)
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Just wanted to let you know I am FINALLY getting this checked out:-)
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