Halloween is a North American holiday. In many places, like Costa Rica, it is seen as a fun bit of 'Americana' that is starting to gain popularity. It also helps that there is a huge Expat community here. Even so, trick-or-treating door to door has not yet caught on. Many of the UPeace students were on vacation over Halloween since we had a short break between classes. But we still found a party! Not wanting to spend anything on costumes, we decided to see what our imaginations could put together. I went as a Chiquita banana (it was a definite stretch!), Patrick as Santa (no I don't know why he brought that hat with him to Costa Rica), Autumn a vampire (that's my skirt as her cape), and Chloe as a blue mouse (who eats bleu cheese!). We made orange, yellow-cake mini cupcakes with chocolate icing to bring, so we were a hit at the party! We danced and played music all night. Before the party, we ventured to the main plaza in Ciudad Colon to a craft fair. They also had a parade through the streets with Los Gigantes (the giants) and a band. I filmed some of that as seen in the previous post.
Creative! We did the same - created costumes out of what we had around instead of buying...except for Elise who's costume I found at the Salvation Army.
ReplyDelete(This is Jen, btw!)