Halloween, Chilean Style

I mentioned in a previous post that Chilean's celebrate Halloween.  However, this is a relatively new phenomenon as they have only been doing so for about 10-15 years.  Because of that, it is a little different than how we celebrate in the states.  One example is that they haven't taken costumes quite as far as I've seen.  They stick to witches, skeletons, zombies (scary stuff), and of course princesses and animals for little kids.  I didn't see any TV personalities, movie stars, ironic figures, or play on words (e.g., a few years ago, I went as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Steve went as Toto [the band], or that other time a few years even further back when Steve went as Holy Crap and he dressed up in all brown with fake poop on his head and wearing pretty white wings and a halo - yes, kind of inappropriate, but also kind of funny [and keep in mind this was about 15 years ago!]).  I digress.

So we went trick or treating kind of by accident.  Our friends came to our neighborhood to trick or treat and we figured we might as well walk around with them, and by the first or second block Sadie was getting into it, so we just kept trucking along.  While none of my kids were wearing costumes, luckily, Sadie was wearing her purple kitty sweat suit, so I could just say she was a purple catwoman and get by with that.  All the kids have little plastic pumpkins for their candy, and since Sadie didn't have one, she was literally stuffing the candy in her pockets (see pic below).  It was adorable.

Here are Sadie and her friend Raulito in action.  Raulito (who is 2 and a half) was an adorable lion, who, when passing by a garage with a huge fake spider web and spider decorations, said, "Sadie, watch out for those spiders!!!"  It was really sweet - he was very concerned.

Here is the other little man who went trick or treating with us, Lucas.  Being a crazy cute pumpkin!

And then here are some more pics of my neighborhood's trick or treaters.

And here is Sadie's loot, of which she will only ever eat one piece since the amount of sugar in Chilean candy is through the roof.  I let her eat one piece and I've never seen her have such a crazy high in her life.  I ate a few pieces myself and literally couldn't fall asleep!  My faves were the Chubis, which were just like M&Ms.  No mini candy bars :( :( (they are VERY expensive. You would pay $7 for one TINY bag of 12 mini mini snickers [the really small ones, not even the normal small ones!], which means everyone just buys hard candy and tons of masticables [or taffy].