Germany has only been celebrating Halloween for the past few years.
Nuts right?! And they don't do Thanksgiving either.
But I'm pretty sure it's because they go all out for Christmas.
The stores are already putting out Christmas decorations and I hear the whole town will be decked out in lights. Then there's the Christmas Markets, oh the Christmas Markets.
I can't even imagine how amazing they will be.
But back to Halloween.
I haven't seen any traces of it in town yet, but
Europa Park had every inch of the park completely Halloween-ed out.
We walked in the front gate and Nightmare Before Christmas songs were playing,
mummies and cobwebs were all over, and every pumpkin in the world were lining the walkways.
Win.
This poor excuse for a jack o lantern...Fail? Or is it so wrong that its right.
They had these crazy shaped pumpkins all over.
And the corn creeps. Oh how we loved them.
I may have had nightmares about them that night, but they are amazing nonetheless.
Then as you walk through the fairy tale land,
all the Disney princess dresses were hung throughout the trees.
Extra creepy. Extra fail?
I cant even look at this picture now.
Are these not the scariest group of guys you have ever seen?
Lowering a casket into the ground. My eye always goes to the guy on the left.
The scariest/grossest I've ever seen.
They even had a Halloween parade.
But halfway through, it came to a stand still and random people would just go up to the floats and talk to the characters and hop on board.
This would never happen at Disney. Complete chaos I tell you.
Costume fail.
The least scary skeleton zombie ever.
Fail.
Overall, it was a win.
I think all the fails made it SO much more fun.
All my fellow overseas friends, do they celebrate Halloween where you are?
I thought this was hilarious. I can't imagine anywhere in the USA daring to 'hang' the Disney princesses.
ReplyDeleteI love that Corn guy that's cooking and has the spoon above his head. He's my favorite.
ReplyDeleteand those dresses? creeepy.
The corn guys cooking are super creepy! The dresses in the trees are too! It looks like you would have fun riding the rides and just walking around looking at all of the decorations.
ReplyDeleteHeck yes we celebrate Halloween! I live in Cincinnati, its so much fun! & I think you are right, it was all so wrong it felt right. Those corn creeps are SCARY! Miiight have nightmares later.
ReplyDeleteHahahah! Thos corn people are creepy cool! I love them. And yes, we definitely do celebrate Halloween here in Hawaii. I live on the island of Maui and we host what many call "The Mardi Gras of the Pacific"... in past years, nearly 20,000 people from all over (the world, not just Hawaii), would come to the little quaint ocean side town for some good ol' fun and debauchery. Adults would dress up in the best costumes. Eeep! I can't wait for this year. :)
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Living in Korea, I asked my students if they celebrate Halloween. They said yes BUT they don't go trick or treating or dress up...so I'm not sure what they do.
ReplyDeleteHallow merry Halloween. Haha that's funny & weird at the same time. Ha
ReplyDeleteThese are creepy. I guess its all about interpretation.
ReplyDeleteHands down one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. The princesses hanging from the trees? Classic! You're spot on....it's all so wrong that it's right. Germany would make Halloween my favorite holiday.
ReplyDeleteReally like your blog.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, we do have Thanksgiving. It´s called Erntedank and is on the first sunday in October.
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