Halloween in Germany

Before continuing to write about our west coast adventure I need to tell about our German Halloween experience. Feeling American now after having lost our hearts in Cary we truly observed this holiday. The house was full of spiders, spiderwebs at our front door, skulls and lots of bats, and of course our ghost in a milk container decorated the whole house, plus ghosts and bats and witches behind the windows.

We carved some pumpkins,

I baked a ton of "fingers" and we had invited the whole neighborhood to a drink and pretzels in the morning (that was really nice although it was not a real Halloween party but more to tell everybody that the Arndts are back). In the evening I went trick or treating with the kids

and Dietrich, with his black curls (last year's wig) sat in front of our front door, drinking red blood (wine) and scaring the kids with moaning sounds from the computer. We had a nice time, the kids had their fun (Wiebke was even at a Halloween sleep over party) but what can I say.... it was not quite the same....