So, Bako didn't let me down last night! Never thought I'd ever write that sentence. But the truth of the matter is Halloween proved to be a moderate success. We're still arguing over how to tally the night, either by knocks on the door (7), versus number of customers served, like McDonalds (15), but any way you slice it it was a vast improvement over our last attempt. All in all it was a lovely day. Spent most of the day fine tuning the decorations, and I carved a likeness of our dogs into a pumpkin - my parents will be thrilled to know that expensive art school education isn't going to waste. The cocktails came out early, dinner was great and we got to scare some kids. What more could you want?
If there was a disappointment, it was trying to find a good scary movie to watch. All week long every channel seemed to be running all the great horror films, but on Halloween itself, the pickens were slim. We started watching "Night of the Living Dead", but once you've been to the mall here, it kind of loses it's punch. It too closely mirrors day to day life in Bako. I suggested "Australia" - if Nicole Kidman's over-acting doesn't qualify as scary I don't know what does. But that got nixed as not Halloween-ish enough. We finally settled for some forgettable film called "Circus of Horrors", which was a little light on the "horrors" and a little heavy on the "circus". There's a reason it was forgettable. We fell asleep.
