Halloween in Paris ( a little behind but none the less)

So I know I am literally a month behind on this post but here goes anyways.
The night before Halloween some friends and I went to a scottish bar for a pumpkin carving event. It was organized by an american who has lived here for awhile and this is the second annual pumpkin carving event. We got into groups and paid 10 euros for the group to get a pumpkin, a knife and spoon and markers. We were then given about an hour and a half (even though it was only supposed to be an hour!) to carve the pumpkin. We then placed all the pumpkins along the bar and they bar staff judged them for us. My group was made up of the two girls I had gone with, and four or five other people we just met there that evening. Gotta love who these things bring foreigners together. We decided to carve a ghost into our pumpkin. It didn't look too bad, but unfortunately didn't win. Oh well, maybe next year.

The following evening was Halloween!! Halloween was interesting out here. The French don't actually celebrate halloween out here. They are starting to send the kids out trick or treating but it is dificult when almost everyone lives in apartment buildings. As for the young adults, they don't mind going out to celebrate especially since it was on a friday this year. However, and this is the big however. Most French don't actually dress up!! That is part of the whole fun of the evening is getting dressed up into a costume and acting like someone other than yourself. They even have incentive out here. Bars were offering free shots or cheap drinks if you showed up in costume, yet still the number of non-foreigners dressed up was minimal. It even got to the point where some people came up to us and asked to have their picture taken with us because we were all dressed up!! It was odd, we were like stars, simply for doing what ever normal north american young adult does on Halloween evening!!! I was dressed as a bunny and we decided to do a little pub crawl. We had a blast. Met some really interesting people and a lot of foreigners. It was pretty clear when we were out to see who was north american and who was french and who was from elsewhere in europe based on their costumes. We saw everything from Kid Rock to the flinstones to snow white to elvis. We had a lot of fun and that is all that really matters isn't it :)