Trick or Treat

Halloween is not an important holiday in the Czech Republic. I'm told it migrated over here in the last five years or so but at most is celebrated with costume parties. Trick-or-treating is not generally done here. However, we had a desire to have the kids take part in that classic American tradition and luckily there are places where trick-or-treating occurs. There is a development in the village of Nebusice commonly referred to as Little America. This is a development, near the International School of Prague, filled with American, English, and many other expats and that's where many expats go on Halloween. We took our two princesses over there with some other American friends. Since the girls spend so much time dressed as princesses getting them ready for Halloween was really quite simply. The development itself is nice although very odd in that sense that you could be in a new housing development most anywhere in the US; it doesn't feel Czech at all. Sofia tends to be a bit shy at first around strangers in new situations like this but after that first house and she realized that simply knocking on a door and saying "trick or treat" got you candy she was on a mission. She lead the charge door to door, actually pushing open a door at one house and had a great time. We saw some of the other kids from Sofia's class so that was fun. Ali did well too. As we were leaving for the night some older kids set of a fire cracker. While that seemed to scare a bunch of younger kids somehow Sofia and Ali thought it was quite funny and Ali talked for a while about how she liked the fire cracker. The only down-side of the night was that the kids got a lot of small popsicles and other hard sucking candies and not much chocolate. The only reason I really cared was because it didn't give me much interesting stuff to take from them that night.