It's time for the spookiest day of the year, besides exam days and dentist appointments. Today is the day we are actually allowed to dress up, without getting weird looks, go trick or treating, have a ghostly rave party, or whatever people do on Halloween. As a Dutch person I'm only just getting the hang of Halloween. It's not a very big happening here yet, although it's going to be in the future, mark my words! Just look at the generation of my youngest sister for example, she's 14 now and for years she's been interesting in the concept of Halloween, together with her friends she even introduced trick or treat in our neighbourhood and they also throw this fun Halloween party every year. Besides my sisters interest in Halloween there's also the commercial interest in Halloween, for example by theme parks. Throughout Holland theme parks have special Halloween nights where they have longer opening hours, have spooks roaming their grounds creeping out whomever walks past.
Last year I got the ultimate Halloween experience, at home I carved some pumpkins, but on the 31st of October, the real Halloween night, I was in Brighton. There Halloween is a much bigger thing than over here so it was an amazing experience, although I was slightly afraid of being outside with all the people with their fake blood and axes. And..... that day I also went to see The Amazing Tour Is Not On Fire, also known as TATINOF, in Halloween style. I'll never forget Dan as Shrek and Phil as Thor, it truly was an unique TATINOF experience and I loved every bit about it , oh and I cried. Yes that also happened.
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| TATINOF |
This year however, there was no Brighton, nor a TATINOF show to attend (besides the one now available for purchase on Youtube) (totally not sponsored by the way, just fangirling). No, this year I had to stick to the pumpkin carving and attending a Halloween night at a local theme park. The pumpkin carving was the fun part, well the theme park was not a complete waist either but it was worse than the dressed up people in Brighton as the spooks in the theme park just loved going after me......
Let me explain this a bit more. My friend and I were already in the theme park in the afternoon to, you know, just enjoy the rides and the peacefulness of wandering around the park without constantly being chased by clowns, Romans or horror brides. But then.... dun dun dun, darkness fell upon the park and suddenly it was swarming with spooks. Now I thought I was being smart and prepared here. My strategy was to look the spooks straight in the eye to show them how confident I was and so they hopefully wouldn't start chasing me. But I was wrong, oh so wrong. It didn't work at all, my strategy just backfired right at me. All the spooks were chasing me, not even one of them wanted to chase my friend. Maybe it's a compliment?! Not too confident about that though. Anyway this resulted in a horror bride screaming in my ear, zombie Romans entering my personal space and pointing their spears at mY FLIPPING FACE, clowns beeping their horns in my face and just the general being chased by men with chainsaws. How lovely. I definitely prefer Rory the Roman, when it comes to the Romans that is. (Doctor who reference intended).
Now I did like that day but man the spooks were against me there and for next year I really have to up my confidence and anti spook strategy. So just so you know making eye-contact does NOT WORK.....
So yeah, basically that was my Halloween experience for this year. Yeah 2016 what a blast. For tonight I'm going to meet up with the friend I went to see TATINOF with last year and we're going to watch TATINOF the movie! A much better way of spending Halloween in my opinion, and yes I'm taking tissues!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!! Just five more hours until Christmas though......
ThatDutchGirl96
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| With the bae, my only friend that day. |
