Trunk or Treat

Most of our friends and family know Halloween is a James family favorite. In Italy they have Carnival in the spring, and a fest of some sort every weekend, but no Halloween. Instead of having our American children go without trick or treating the base puts together a haunted house and "Trunk" or Treating for the kids. Each squadron or volunteer group puts together a car trunk decorated to the hilt, and they pass out candy. There are some really imaginative people on this base. The Italians are always up for any reason to celebrate, so I'm pretty sure the turnout was almost an even half and half. It was great to see the Italian kids enjoying our American holiday, especially since we have such a great time with all of their festivals.

Emma ran into plenty of friends from school. They all braved the "scary" version of the haunted house. I'm rather glad I skipped that one!



Scary, isn't she?



After not dressing up last year, I got a whole year of grief from the family....



Our friends had a guest in from the states. She braved a flight from NY, a train from Milan, freezing weather, and hundreds of small children (all today!) for an American holiday in Italy. Yeah, Sharon was just cool like that!



Lizzie is reading the Little House on the Prairie series right now... Guess who she is?



We only knew about half these children, but they ALL wanted to be in the picture. Could you have said no? Me neither, they were just too stinkin' cute!



It was a great kick off for Halloween week. On to the zucca festival tomorrow!