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October 31, 2006
Happy Halloween/Hop Tu Naa?
Well, I wasn't sure what to expect being here on the island for my first Halloween. The first thing that had me really nervous was the fact that children carve ehm... turnips here. You read that correctly. What the helloween is a kid doing carving a gorramn turnip?I managed to find us a couple pumpkins to carve since snow has never carved a pumpkin before. Yes, you read that correct also. At this point, I really began to wonder if Rod Serling was hiding in my house somewhere giving a monologue. So I had to give a short lesson on the mechanics of pumpkin carving. The scooping of "guts" and seed sorting was the obvious area that lacked understanding but thankfully I wasn't giving any quizzes after pumpkin school.
Now, since it's a fun holiday and all... We will play a little game! It's called:
Guess Who Carved Which Pumpkin!
The first entry:
The second entry:
Both together since I know how hard it is to tell which is which!
We baked our pumpkin seeds and lit the punkins up and all was good in the world. Especially since I wouldn't be caught dead carving a fracking turnip. *mumbles censored words about turnips* Alas, the day of Halloween is here. I did buy a small truckload of candy in case these people did something NORMAL like trick-or-treat... and not have some long tradition of painting sheep like pumpkins (yes someone actually asked me if they do that here haha! It wouldn't be a bad idea if sheep didn't run so fast).
I cooked up some dinner and had the bushel of candy ready. The first knock on the door... and singing? The kids not only dress up but they actually sing you a song! It's actually terribly cute to see little plastic skeleton boys singing a catchy song about Hop-Tu-Naa. The song goes like this:
Hop-tu-Naa
My mother's gone away
And she wont be back until the morning
Jinnie the Witch flew over the house
To fetch the stick to lather the mouse
Hop-tu-Naa
My mother's gone away
And she wont be back until the morning
Hop-tu-Naa, Traa-la-laa
More info on this crazy holiday can be found here.
Happy HalloweenHopTuNaa everyone!!!
Posted by naku at October 31, 2006 3:06 PM
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Okay.....I think I know who did which!!! Last year, Naku carved me a pumpkin that looked exactly like a pug's face!!!!!
Happy Halloween everyone OO
Mum
xoxoxo
Posted by: Mum at October 31, 2006 7:12 PM
The sinister one = Snow and the cute crazy one = Naku.
But that's just a guess. Only say that because Snow can gives off that dark-edge-having-vibe makes you wonder if he's average guy or perhaps Frank Castle...
Wait it might be the other way around...fudge it, i don't know but i likes em both!
My pumpkin isn't Hallowe'enie at all now i think about it....bugger-fudge...
*hugs*
Posted by: Aingeal 
at November 2, 2006 6:05 AM
Aaaaaw...no fair...I wish I had been there. Instead I was mopping up the flood in the kitchen that our tumble-dryer decided to "trick" us with. I'm guessing my dearest brother's is the one that looks like o_O...just a hunch. Miss you guys stacks <3
Posted by: katmeeow at November 2, 2006 9:30 AM
bah, carving a turnip isn't that weird. This year when my brother was carving his pumpkin, we had a watermelon sitting on the table and I said "MOM! WHY IS MY PUMPKIN SO WEIRD?!" and she laughed and said I can do whatever the heck i wanted with it since no one was going to eat it...
so I carved it. Then, I put together my Solid Snake costume...which consisted of a box with decals.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d107/HappyNinja/PA300017-1.jpg
hurray! glad to hear you had a good halloween.
Posted by: ShotgunSteve at November 5, 2006 1:26 AM
ROFL, omg I SO laughed at the idea of carving turnips... I'm gonna guess that Snow did the o.O pumkin as well. But meh not like it really matters, here it is the 9th, and we've not gotten any results!! Who's runnin' this game anyway!? What're the prizes!? I wanna speak with your manager =P Nah really though, the pumkins were cute... I'm gonna go an click that link now, find out (hopefully) why the heck they're carvin' up turnips and what the devil a 'Hop-tu-naa' is.... LOL. Talk about "through the looking glass" lol. Have fun you two^^
Posted by: Garkin at November 9, 2006 1:25 AM
Heh. I had forgotten about Hop-tu-naa.
You really are living in pretty much the weirdest place in the UK (is it part of the UK? I can never remember).
And you know why its really weird? Most of them still believe in the whole witches and faries thing. Well, believe in it in the same way that most Christians believe in God - y'know, not church and shit, just belief.
Posted by: jf at November 10, 2006 3:52 AM
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