Halloween - The Party

There is a 100% chance that if I don't explain this news story from last winter you will not understand Michaels costume. I didn't bring much attention to this when it happened because we had just gotten here and I didn't want to freak out our families too much. We had only been here a couple weeks when the a big riot in Copenhagen broke out. We were living at the SAS Radisson in central Copenhagen at the time and the very few people who had heard about it emailed us to ask us if we were in any danger. It wasn't far from us, but we were not in harms way.

A few months later, another HUGE riot broke out. This time there was major destruction, including several cars being set on fire and bricks thrown at the police. In short the rioters were a bunch of punk kids trying to save their Youth House, aka Ungdomshuset. The Government had given them this house years ago and then decided to sell the house off. The kids were less then trilled about this and protested.

If you want to know the whys and exactly what the riots were about here is a link with information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungdomshuset
If you scroll down it talks about the protests and riots.


Pictures
You don't have to watch the whole video... Just a little bit.

So, for Halloween Michael was an "Undomshuset Rioter".
Brick, Flag, Pierced Ears and All.

And I was a Danish Soccer Fan

The Pates

We were excited to see what our guests would come as. Several of them told us this was their very first Halloween Party! HOW FUN! They started arriving at 5:30PM and it was about 2:00AM by the time the last people left. I hope that means they were having fun. The time change happened that night so it was nice to have that extra hour to sleep in and not feel like we slept the day away. We spent the evening eating, drinking and talking. The American candy seemed to go over quite well with most of our guests. I was surprised as I thought most of them wouldn't like it, because Danes always tell us how sweet they think American Candy is.

At the end of the night, I realized I didn't take that many pictures at all. Apparently I was either busy getting this or that ready, or talking and having fun. Those of you who know me, know that at events and visits I can't make myself put up the camera so I was shocked that I didn't take that many pictures. Jason, where were you when I needed a backup camera man huh? Here are the few pictures I did take.

Jens the Ghoul

Dorte the Witch and Karl Kristian as Dracula

Klaus - Matchstick Man

Jens the Scary guy from Scream and Hella as Shrek

Flemming the Ugly Woman and Maja the Mummy
We had a costume contest and "The Mummy" won.
She got a bottle of Casillero del Diablo Wine.
(Translation....Cellar of the Devil)

Helena the little prisoner.
She was adorable and belongs to the cross dresser and the Mummy.
The number on her outfit is Michaels TI employee number!! I asked Flemming if the number meant anything and read it out loud and Michael said, thats my a.i.d. number!

Scary characters on our couch

I forgot to post him with the decorations!
This is our Scarecrow guarding the bucket of candy. :)

Chatting
These two were brave enough to take the train in their costumes!!
They said they had many people looking at them.

Siblings

More Chatting

We are already talking about next year...and so were our guests when they were leaving!!!
So, just call us: "The Pates: Bringing Halloween to Denmark one Dane at a time" :o)