Halloween is an interesting phenomenon in Switzerland. It is in all the stores, so it is actually possible to get decorations and there's even a small selection of costumes at the fancy toy store downtown. Despite this, the Swiss people don't like it -- it's not their tradition and it's pretty obvious that it's just a commercial import from the U.S. Nonetheless, we were happy since we were able to find all sorts of fun stuff, including ninja and Harry Potter costumes, for our Halloween party. We also made skeletons by tracing the body of each boy, I drew the bones and then the boys further embellished them. On the night of (actually, a few days prior to actual Halloween), we put on some scary music and invited some neighbors to enjoy hauntingly fun games (such as pin the broomstick on the witch), ghastly drinks and goulish food with us. A spooky time was had by all...
From left to right: Terri (a visiting ETH prof from France--he and his family live on the eighth floor of our building) with his two children, Aoulie (I'm sure that's spelled wrong) and Elon (who is friends with Elliot--they go to the same kindergarten), Isaac (foreground), Elliot, Da'Rion (Isaac's friend from school who is from Indiana originally and moved here with his dad around the same time we did), Gary (Da's dad, also American--a veteran of the Iraq war and now studying to be a psychologist), Karin (Gary's wife and Da's stepmom, a very friendly Zuricher native), their daughter Kiara (very adorable, just turned one year old), Brian (you know that guy), Edna (the wife of Terri/mother of Aoulie and Elon--speaks Hebrew, French and English and is now learning German), and Edna's niece who was visiting from Isreal.
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