Halloween along with Thanksgiving are my favorite holidays. Thanksgiving because we have about 20 friends at my parents house and they all bring a dish to share. We've been doing this for about 25 years. My parents moved out from Connecticut and a few families followed, so they wanted to welcome them to California by inviting them over for Thanksgiving to share in the holiday spirit. Good times.
Halloween is fun because dressing up in costume is a blast. Somtetimes it may seem a bit daunting to figure out what to wear, but once I get into it, it's fun. In Copenahagen, Alice invited Sanna (Sweden), Li (Canada), Karin (Denmark) and me to her house for Tom Ka Gai soup which was delicious and then we headed to the studenterhuset (lit "student house"). Studenterhuset is a bar/cafe in the center of Copenhagen where students can get a membership and then buy cheap beer, which is a good thing because Denmark can be expensive.
Back to the night. I dressed up as a Jungle woman with a sarong, hiking boots, purple bra, frizzed hair, paint on the face, and vines wrapped around my legs, arms, neck. I'd never met Li or Karin before and now that they have become great friends by bonding over biology, Karin remarks at how crazy she thought I was that night. Thinking how Denmark is a liberal nation, I didn't think twice about showing some skin, but I was wrong, people stared.... maybe because it was freezing outside?
The night was fun. Not everyone dressed up.... you could definitely pick out the people from the United States. Alice had a fun costume. She'd bought a Russian flag and a gas mask when we were in Russia and ended up wearing the flag as a toga and the gas mask dangling from a shoulder or on her head.
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I don't think people stared b/c it wasn't a liberal country... I think they -- and WE stared because it was FREEZING COLD -- you didn't have a jacket or anything... twirling around in barely anything. Remember how cold and dark and damp it was? We rode our bikes from Christiania and through the city streets into the hustle and bustle of the crowd that formed outside studenterhuset! I was afraid you would catch a cold!!!
It was an awesome outfit and you wore it well... I'll never forget that night. It totally changed my life.
:)
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