American Halloween! The expat community is doing a Halloween party on Saturday but as we won't be here (and Halloween is my favorite holiday), we decided to throw a Halloween party for our work buddies.
Homemade costumes were a requirement :) I was a Jack o Lantern!
We did watermelon carvings (instead of pumpkin carvings; haven't seen any pumpkins in Laos), which is nice because watermelons are actually super easy to carve, and you can put vodka in the watermelons...
For dessert I tried to do a black-and-white Spider Web cake, but evaporated milk is way less solid than vanilla frosting so it kind of all ran together. So I drowned the cake in hot chocolate sauce, put a "puddle" in the middle, and had sour gummi worms crawling out of it. Add vanilla ice cream to the hot chocolate cake and it was awesome (if I do say so myself)
On the way out one of our coworkers got stuck in the ditch we have along the dirt road in front of our apartment. Ten guys (all dressed in Halloween costumes) couldn't get him out, so they had to call a tow truck ...
Then Zach decided to scale the side of our apartment building.
Eye make-up.
I left the ten jack-o-lantern watermelons outside our apartment but the cleaning ladies threw them away before we got back from work today... very very distressing. And sad.
But Happy Halloween from Laos!
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