We did Halloween in Brisbane last night and my daughter had a great time trick or treating. Highlight was a house with a keyboarder playing spooky music who switched to let it go when she showed up dressed as Elsa. Also a new cotton candy shop opened that was giving away cotton candy. My wife said we got about 30 people to our house which was less than last year but maybe to be expected for a Monday.
Overall though Halloween is so sad in Australia. Picture the houses in Calgary that don’t celebrate Halloween and that’s about the number of houses here that do. There was like one house participating per block with a few hotspots with higher numbers. This resulted in a lot of kids being driven around to the hot spots instead of just leaving their house and going out locally. I managed to walk everywhere with my daughter but we were dreadfully inefficient getting to like 20 houses in 90 minutes. Not to mention Halloween here brings out all the grumps complaining about American cultural influence all while drinking Jim Beam and Coke and gambling on the NBA.
This has motivated me though to get to Calgary for a proper Halloween sometime in the next few years.
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