What's even better is that that holiday was Halloween, which is my favourite day of the year! Dressing up+candy...how can you not love it!
I quickly came to learn that Halloween is not that big in UK. Trick and treating is pretty much non-existent, and people don't really dress up, although I still had to line up to get into the costume store...hmmm, I suppose they were all Americans/Canadians in the line up (or queue as they would call it here ;)
It was a big one this year, including:
-Tutu hunting for the blood-thirst ballerina posse
-Dressing up 3 Chilean miners
-Planning a surprise Halloween outfit for one excited Supergirl
-Surviving a giant Halloween house party
What they do well on Halloween here is organize haunted ghost walks and all sorts of other ghostly/creepy/scary/bloody events to get people into the Halloween spirit. I ended up going on one of such walks in Spitalfields, or better known as one of the haunted neighbourhoods in London. I can now pinpoint a couple of places where Jack the Ripper's victims have been found, and where to go if you want to see a ghost. I'm also kind of convinced that my camera is now haunted, because there's a mysterious white blob that keeps popping up in my pictures...Hmmm...
Here's how my first English Halloween looked like:
Blood Thirsty Ballerinas
The Girls
The Chilean Miners
The Girls + One Lucky Miner
Scaryness!
Crypt with thousands of dead people, located conveniently in the middle of London
Touring Spitalfields with the ghost of Jack Sheppard
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