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On Sunday morning, I went to a Halloween party in Michigan!

What? How?

My friends in Michigan were having their annual Halloween party and I messaged them on video through skype! My video came through on an I-Pad and I was passed around from friend to friend. It was really good to see everyone! When I didn't see them, I was accidentally aimed at the ceiling! Haha
There were couple costumes from Bob's Burgers and The Adam's Family. My sister re-lived her Steven Universe Cosplay. Captain America and Elizabeth Swan (from the Pirate movies) were pretty great too.

For many years, I was the one who had the Halloween party. My Mom enjoyed helping me throw it, and my friends REALLY enjoyed my hospitality and the hot-tub! A few years ago, my friends Megan and Joe bought a house, and worked really hard to turn it into a spooky place. Their basement looks like a dungeon!




All of that "rock" is hand painted!

The party got a bit too loud, as parties do, so whoever I was talking to tended to retreat to an empty room or go outside with me. But October in Michigan can get pretty chilly! Everyone kept forgetting what time is was and asked me to have a drink. But Michigan's Saturday night was Japan's Sunday morning! I had some coffee and breakfast.

I talked to people for about 3 hours! The whole thing had been a really good idea. I missed my friends and I felt like I was pretty much at the party. When everyone said goodbye, there were a lot of people telling me they were going to get Skype accounts too and talk to me again. I guess they missed me too!  

Halloween is fast approaching! Everyone is preparing for our big event this Saturday, and of course we are all celebrating with our students throughout the week leading up to it! So far, most of my students did not dress up to class, but I did get a few who joined in, which was wonderful! I have had a little pumpkin in class, a wizard from Harry Potter (he had the Sorting Hat with him! He says he won it in a crane game! Amazing!), a fairy and either Death or Dracula with a scythe, haha. I hope to see more before the end of the week!

As for me, I started off the Halloween week wearing my costume from Summer Tour (Ali Baba/Aladdin-ish costume), but I found it difficult to teach in it, plus it is starting to fall apart (one of the first costumes I made, so it wasn't great quality). I am switching over to my costume from last Halloween, Prince Hans from Frozen. It's a bit more bulky to carry, but a bit more comfortable, especially after I (finally) altered it to fit me better. I'm not sure yet if I will wear it Friday, but I guess we will see how the week goes! I hope to see many people on Saturday wearing amazing costumes!