Halloween 2013

This year we wanted to celebrate Halloween a little different than previous years. We had the idea to invite a lot of people to have a look at our creations and to enjoy my homemade pumpkin soup. One day Petra, photographer at a local news site called MooiMaasdriel.nl, came by because she was interested to take a look at our preparations. She made some photo’s and wanted to give some attention to our Halloween plans on their website. In the article we invited people to come over for Halloween. The article is only in Dutch, but you can have a look at her photo’s here. You can find our blog about the preparations here.

On Halloween we were ready to greet people a little later than planned.

Outside the pumpkin soup was already simmering and I’m glad to say everyone enjoyed it. Out of the 18 liters I made, 10 liters were eaten. 

The pumpkins of which I used the scooped out flesh to make the soup could be admired outside. As an extra treat we had hot wine, which people also really enjoyed. :-)

On Halloween people in the so called white quarter in Hedel organise a trick-or-treat evening for children every year and we told the organisation that people could visit our place after the trick-or-treating if they wanted. If you’re interested in seeing more about this trick-or-treat evening, click here. The article is only in Dutch, but you can have a look at the photo’s. Because of the trick-or-treat invitation we had candy for the children. Except for dressed up children, a couple of ghost horses visited us also:

Not only the children dressed up, other visitors also came in style. We loved it!

Petra of MooiMaasdriel.nl visited us again on this evening and they also gave attention to this evening on their website. The article is in Dutch again, but you can find more photo's here. 

It was kind of an explosive evening: a lot of people showed up at once so the garden was full of people and the house was packed, so unfortunately we didn’t have a chance to talk to everyone. Luckily my mother-in-law was there to help us with handing out pumpkin soup and candy. We meant to do that ourselves, but we were very busy so we couldn’t find the time. Despite the fact that the evening didn’t go as planned, it was a really fun evening. The weather was nice too. It was cold, but not as cold as could be expected for this time of year and more important: it didn’t rain at all!

On behalf of vampires and victim: a big thank you to everyone who was there!