There was evidence that Halloween was celebrated in Singpore by way of the paraphenalia on sale in the supermarkets, the Night Safari (Night Zoo) was having Halloween themed weekend nights in October, the French Association held a Halloween themed party for kids in mid-october, and the Disney TV channel here was advertising scary themed shows on sunday 31st october.
We had no plans to do anything - that was until we received a knock on the door, and an invitation to join some families for some Halloween festivities by the pool on sunday afternoon.
Z was very excited, as she had missed celebrating Halloween the past two years with having her tonsills out and travelling.
We were one of 4 families - Swiss-Italian, French, South African and us, with their children and maids. It was fun - the kids swam and played games together. Although we'd all seen each other in the pool from time to time, we hadn't introduced ourselves - so it was good to finally break the ice. As the time passed, the clouds were building for a storm (a daily occurence here), but the sky was turning from grey to black and green... and just as our pizza's arrived, the heavens opened... and boy it was a 'doozy'. We were huddled under the shelter by the pool eating pizza and drinking red wine in a torrential downpour with lightening and thunder all around us. We all thought it was quite appropriate for Halloween. The kids were amazing - if they were scared,they sure didn't show it. At 7pm more children from the apartments joined us in costume and then all the children accompanied by the 3 maids set off to go 'trick or treating' around several of the apartments. We returned to our respective apartments to await the knock on the door.
It was a really fun night for Z as well as us.
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