Spooky Scrabble and Other Things

We couldn't help but celebrate Halloween while in Italy. Fall is my favorite time of year and there is something spooktacular about the harvest time.

Although there are bars that cater to the American taste for a night of revelry, we decided long ago, perhaps in college, that "adult" Halloween is not that great.

So for our small celebration we got only the traditional essentials (as best as we could):

Hot Chocolate
Pumpkin Soup
Halloween Colored Candies (turned out to be sugar free!)
Chocolate Truffles
Orange-flavored chocolate bar in neat wrapper
Orange-color, meloncello (cantaloupe liquor)

For the actual day, we streamed (via an invention called Sling Box) Halloween movies that were playing on cable TV in the Philadelphia area. Only problem was that for the first part of the day we got the really crappy movies that play at like 4 in the morning (it actually was 4 in the morning eastern time). If you have seen "They Live" or "Death Eaters II" please share in our pain.

We then got our creative hats on and made our own jack-o-lanterns out of cereal boxes as well as theme drawings (Tim made a pumpkin patch and I made a graveyard). During our craft session, we listened to LA radio's DJ Thomas Callahan spin great Halloween tunes from the online radio LIVE365. If interested his channel is doing "food music" for November in celebration of Thanksgiving.

No holiday would be complete without games and we came up with two good ones. Poltergeist Pictionary and Spooky Scrabble (see the finished board from our scrabble game) both were a hit.



Finally, our holiday was enhanced by the cute ghost towels from John and Erica. Thank you guys for this great gift!

Happy Halloween All!