Halloween Stinks

So fresh on the comment from Maria that Dan's brother, Rob, loved his homemade costume until it came time to wear it to school at which point he absolutely refused, we gave Halloween a go. Emery was an alien ghost and Greta a bunch of grapes. Knowing that Germans don't really do Halloween, Emery had a major meltdown when leaving the house for the zoo Halloween party. He refused to wear the costume until we arrived at the zoo, and I capitulated after more tears were shed than I deemed necessary for a super-fun-for-kids holiday.


Arrived at zoo. Paid 9 euro entrance for me. Walked through the gate only to be bounced because balloons aren't allowed in the zoo. "Our animals have sensitive ears." Of course. Walked back out the gate and began popping all of Greta's balloons. Gate bouncer came out to tell me that we could leave the little ones. She ended up looking like this:


Zoo was a guided tour of stuff we didn't care to see and then to the exit. It stunk. Only redeeming feature was a handfull of small hard candies for each of the kids at the exit. I told the kids that even though the Germans don't know how to do Halloween, they more than make up for it with Christmas. This bribe worked. On the trip home they looked like this:


Oh, and Greta once looked like this: