Meghan On Amélie-October-November 2014

Well, unless you want me to talk about how I walk to the grocery store and come back everyday or how I wake up, do school and then sit around for the rest of the day, I have pretty much ran out of things to say so this blog will mostly be pictures. This blog is a bit later than most of my blogs are but it combines October and beginning of November. This will also be (hopefully) my last blog I do of Grenada since we are getting a bit tired of this boatyard and are getting ready to leave soon. 

Have a Boat-tacular Halloween!(Most of the following pictures in this category are taken by Lisa, SV Daydreamer) 

First of all, let’s talk about Halloween costumes. If you went online and researched costume shop in Grenada, it would come up with question marks saying: “that is unavailable” in one of those irritating monotone voices you hear on a commercial call. Down here, almost no one (except for cruisers) even know what Halloween is so you don’t really have the option of either buying your costume or making your costume (you have to make it). My costume was fairly easy to make since all I had to use were my yellow shirt, my green shorts, our dreadlocks hat (hair that many rasta men have), ears (that we actually found in a little store) and paint for my whiskers but many of my friends had to be very creative in how they made with costumes. Here are some examples:

Jellyfish made out of mosquito nets,
tissue paper, paper plates and lego blocks

Halloween girl with garbage bag dress accessory and
zombie with cut and painted shirt and shorts

Frankeinstein with full on makeup and attachable bolts
and minion with hand made glasses

(Almost) everyone and I especially love the two little
robots in front with duck tape arms, tin foiled box
bodies and real electric parts on the bodies

On the 26th of October, there was a kids Halloween party at Secret Harbour Marina. I have to say, for people who just learned what Halloween was last year, the marina put that party together pretty well! They had spider webs (fake) hung everywhere with cartoon zombies hanging on the walls and lots of cool games to win candy with. There was even Halloween style twister with the “put your left hand on ghost” thing which my friend and I mastered with

an award of a full sized “3 Musketeers” chocolate bar! There was even a surprise foam blower that was probably the highlight of that party. Let’s just say my whiskers and painted nose were gone, gone by the time I got out of there! I know that Matthew especially enjoyed the trampoline and full-sized bouncy castle!

Three days later on the 29th, the kids had an early trick or treating. We all set out in dinghies and went to designated boats that said they would give out candy. It is a bit different than normal trick or treating in a few ways and the same in others. It is definitely the same with costumes and candy but either than that, it is quite different. When we drive up to boats, it is really wavy (especially in the open bays like Calivigny Island) and so to grab on to boats to get your treat, the front person has to grab on and hold on tight to something solid while the driver has to put the engine in neutral because you probably won’t have much luck with receiving candy if you drift forward to the anchor chain! Meanwhile, while all this is happening the others are tripping over each other with the waves trying to get candy without falling in while calling out: “Trick or Treat!”. Also, here is a sentence you probably never heard in your trick or treating that we heard quite a few times in ours: “Here catch this candy! (sploosh!) Oops! Well, at least the fish will enjoy it!.” When we came back from trick or treating, we were walking down the marina docks with bags full of candy in hand and very wet from getting “dinghy-bummed” (when water splashes on you in the dinghy)! After that there was an adult Halloween party that some of us older kids were allowed to join in for the dance party. It was the best time ever dancing the night away!

We haven't really mastered the technique of graciously parking many dinghies!

After all the social Halloween parties, on the 31st, we just celebrated Halloween as a family. We got these really good Halloween food recipes off the internet and agreed on a good Halloween movie to watch: The Nightmare Before Christmas. Overall, it was a pretty good Halloween!

Now, the rest of the blog will be pictures! Until next time!
-Meghan:)

School pictures at Prickly Bay

Our neighbour!

Lunar eclipse right above the hill at 5am!

Disability sports day at St. George's University

Look who got to light and carry her brother's birthday cake!