Tuesday, Oct 31 - Happy Holaween

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After yesterday’s exhilarating day, I’m so glad we have a relaxing sea day today.  We slept in late so that we can stay up a little later for tonight’s festivities.  There’s no need to tell how yours truly spends her day so I’ll just skip right to evening.


My prince is so handsome in his tuxedo 😍 he got this for the wedding and now he has to make the cost per wear worthy.  We started the evening with my fav prime rib.  What more could a gal ask for that is more scary on Halloween ?  Gary requests extra thick cuts for us.  Haaaa what a life?


Most of the kitchen staff on HAL are from The Philippines.  They are very friendly, courageous, and creative.  Here is their version of pumpkin carvings.



Gary and I walked around the ship and gave out candy to the staff in our masquerade costumes as this was all we could manage in our suit cases.  He had a flickering white LED  ghost necklace and I had the orange flickering pumpkins. 



Later there was a costume party and prizes went to the best designed ones.  We didn’t win but had a blast dancing to MJ thriller tunes played by the band.

Comments

  1. Amy ZNovember 2, 2017 at 4:23 PM

    That's awesome! So nice of you to bring treats for the staff ☺

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  2. Jennifer L., VancouverNovember 2, 2017 at 9:10 PM

    I hope the beard is just part of the costume!

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