Rockstars’ Halloween 2016

Party of the Year, for the kids…

~900 kids attend Rockstar’s school… not counting their siblings or friends who come with… and the party goes on on a couple floors, in the gym, in the classrooms too…

Over the PA system… “Books are now HKD 50 a bag. 50 dollars a bag. Thank you.”…

It was also boiling that night, by the time I thought to take a picture off one of the balconies, people had seriously started shedding their costumes..

…and in this playground which the kids are occasionally helping to turn into a Ghost Train for the night… every year I take early setup shift because there’s a long queue to get in when the party starts. In earlier years it also allowed Rockstar to explore quietly without being scared out of his mind by the resident ghouls (and their siblings) who attend classes with him by day and morph into monsters haunting this thing by night. A favourite costume is School Zombie – fake blood over old school uniform. We dont do the scary but we love the whole dress up costume thing…

Then it’s home to clean up and get dressed…

But not before I take a pic of this… Rockstar as a Y1 stayed in the Cheese Brothers clown show session after session, and even now he’s a Y5 he still enjoys some good old fashioned clowning

And – Uh.. what is the Queen doing?

Well anyway, kids go home and have proper veggies-filled dinners. Neither one will eat more than a piece or two of candy, even Queen E came up with the brainwave of spitting out half-eaten candy the moment she’s had enough of it (Go Figure), and every year I eventually throw out the extras anyway.. I normally hate to see food wasted but the alternative is the junk  goes in you? umm… I pounce on any opening the kids’ schools provide – dropped by Queen E’s at snack time one day after she skipped breakfast and her table buddies are happily showing me sugar free cereal (another time on playdate it was organic coconut), and Rockstar just came home reminding me his apples are to be only organic (apples top the lists of highest-pesticide foods).

Anyway back to this – and the rockstars back for the night… To see their rockstars…

Spot the Stuffed Animal: The Clowns Haz Animal Exactly Like Her Highness’ – Affirmation! (Too bad I didn’t get a pic while they were holding it earlier it’s now on the table)

This one was taken at 9.48pm after they announced ages ago that all the hard partying animals need to find their way home

I Haz A Tail

Imma Umbreon.

pic from deviantart.com

Epilogue:

Rockstar says there was someone wearing a President Obama mask with a t-shirt saying “I’m Donald Trump” LOL… My personal favourite however was a gorgeous tween girl in black tee and jeans and biker boots…. sporting the 1.5ft-high horns and lush black feathered wings from Maleficent. 

she was really wearing headgear that fit like this ok… pic from disney.movies.co.uk

And Her Highness… was pikachu all Halloween weekend. We washed and dried the outfit overnight for a few nights.

This is the pikachu having her own rock concert the morning after.

ps: Here’s an analogy I tell the kids, re eating junk: Fill your body with good fuel, reap the benefits in how your body serves you on the playground. Run longer, be able to tag all your friends….. 

Lightning McQueen uses good fuel! (pic from Youtube.com)

Fill your body with junk, and feel the difference…