The kds all dress up course, it's what they love to do wherever they are in the World. The twist here is, that instead of the children knocking on private doors, up and down streets, which I hate....it never feels safe to me. They run up and the down the shopping streets in town, popping in and out of shops, collecting sweeties in a plastic pumpkins. They collected prodigious amounts of loot and some were still going strong at eleven or more. One round of shops doesn't seem to do it. They just kept going. Generous shopkeepers I say, and tireless children dragging around exhausted dads and mums, but I think a good deal of socialising went on in all age groups! The benifit of an island type community, most people know most everybody else.
We had a wide variety of ages, and costumes on show.
The costumes were well done. Ranging from shop bought and hired to obviously home made. All showed a great deal of ingenuity. Most of kids paused for me and my camera, and the parents. The atomosphere was electric and very friendly. The kids had boundless energy, as always. You could see everyone was having tremendous fun, including me...who after a while, sat at the corner bar and watched the world go by. What a world it was too, ghosts, gouls and magical characters I their dozens.
The night began at six with a bang! The smaller children getting started early. The streets which were already reasonably busy, were soon crowded with more children than you normally see around town in a month. As you can imagine, the excitement levels were high. Collecting sweets and candy was treated like gold mining.
I never discovered why two forks, but he was happy as he leapt past.
Yes, really he was..grinning all over his face. Don't know how I got him looking so serious. Mothers and daughter dressed alike, even boys, quite big boys were dressed up. No seemed to worry about image, or embarrassment. They were all too focused on collecting nice things to eat. Some of the bigger kids had plastic bags half full. It must have cost the shop keepers a pretty penny.
All in all, it was a lovely night, nice energy, friendly energy. Not one was trying to spook anyone else...
Although on lookng back at my photos, the camera was really playing up. It was smudged, indistinct. These photos are the few remaining from dozens which didn't come out at all. Or came out in blur of smudged colour.....what wa that all about then? I guess there was some extra energy going the rounds as well as excitement from the children.
This was how the majority of my nights work came out....stranger and stranger.....hey?
The next night it was the grownups turn..there was a big party at at the local club. The party began much later, around eleven. With no collection of sweets and I must say their costumes were truly amazing. Sad to say, there to have fun myself, I couldn't carry my iPad. Also it poured down all night, there were some soggy ghost and skeletons tonight. Now, at past four in the morning, it's still raining and the music in town is still pounding away, me I'm in bed..I have a heavy day at the beach in the morning. No better place to recoup a lack of sleep.
Brasil.....I love you. You are quite unique.
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