Halloween 2017 in the UAE

Halloween is spreading across the globe. Especially when you live in an apartment complex with lots of western expats in a country with a lot of western expats. The weekend before Halloween there was a big scavenger hunt at one of the malls here. Kautz Kids won mall gift cards there and got a bag of candy!

Our apartment complex, Al Zeina, threw a whole Halloween party at the park on actual Halloween. There were games, contests, bouncy house, food trucks.

But the Kautz kids preferred to ditch their costumes (it's still totally hot out) and climb palm trees instead.

A few weeks ahead of the big day, there was a sign up circulating on facebook, where people who would be handing out treats to the little trick-or-treaters could sign up and on the big day there was a printed sheet of the participating apartments. So the kids knew exactly where to go.

We had four kids still interested in dressing up. Eliza was "Life" (handing out lemons...and sugar), Henry was a rock star guitar hero, Greta was a pirate, and Ben was a scientist. Eliza not only had an online class that evening she needed to be online for, but also she hasn't met any kids her age here in the apartments, s o she stayed home and manned the door with the candy bucket. Kinda sad that the dress up fun is coming to an end for her. 

So only the younger three walked the apartment buildings and hit nearly every place on the list. But the haul was not nearly as huge as has been typical in our old Iowa neighborhood. And that's okay, especially now that three of them have orthodontics appliances and, according to our orthodontist, should be restricting candy intake to once a week!