We don't celebrate Halloween - i explained to my optometrist that we don't celebrate Ramadan - it's not our religion, and i'm not sure what Halloween is about but pretty sure it's not my religion either :)

So instead we have a Reformation Day party... and we had fun last night!

First off, a German dinner (pork, apples, sauerkraut, purple cabbage with nuts) by candlelight.

Then, a delicious chocolate fondue for dinner - with pears, apples, bananas, grapes, and two kinds of cookies. (My friend Sharon passed on some little butter warmers yesterday when we were picking up our whole foods order and they were perfect to keep the chocolate sauce warm and bubbling).

Then downstairs for games - we played "Save a Soul from Purgatory" (by throwing "coins" into the tin can) (and winning candy for accuracy!), then "Throw the Papal Bull in the Fire" (they had to get it over a bar, but the bigger ones had to stand farther back),(more candy),  then "Pin the Theses on Wittenburg Cathedral" (we pasted scrapbooking sheets covered with actual theses on a door, and blindfolded the children, and spun them around - if they got their sticker on a theses, they got two candies, if they got it on the sheet, they got one - and if they were tiny, they could steal candies :) (i'm talkin' about you, Babe Meow)...

Then, T had got a movie - Up.  I'd never seen it, although Si and Daddy had seen it for Si's birthday at the IMAX - i LOVED it!  What a beautiful movie - a little dark, i guess - Anaia felt it was kind of sad - but it showed the importance of people over belongings, and the need we all have to have our dad be proud of us...  Usually we like to find a movie about "being strong in the faith" but it seems a lot of them are a little too dark... This was a fun movie!

T and I both had sore throats and i was pretty wiped out by the end of the day - he let me sleep in today and is taking care of me...  But thought i'd post about our Reformation Day in hopes that it gives my friends who are not comfortable with Halloween some ideas for an alternative...