Spooky, Scary

If you're in Lions Park (where we live) on Halloween, you can expect swarms of kids to come trick-or-treating at your door. And when I saw swarms of kids, I mean HUNDREDS & HUNDREDS (if not thousands) of kids. They are bussed in from all over the island. Some are in costumes, others are not. Early on you get more of the little kids with their parents, but as the night wears on, you've got fully grown teenagers showing up without any costume on asking for candy or whatever else you've got to give. I was lucky in that we left Lions Park shortly after 6pm to go stock our friend Matt's house with food and supplies (he was having emergency surgery to remove his appendix on Halloween--actual surgery at LBJ...talk about scary!) so I didn't get overwhelmed with the full force of the invasion. But in the 20 minutes it took for me to get my stuff together and get out of the house, I had close to 70 trick-or-treaters and went through at least 1 giant bag of candy. For our Halloween fun, the Harty's threw an awesome pirate party over in Coconut Point. Julia spent the weeks leading up to the party collecting cool pirate paraphernalia and sewing costumes for her whole family. They were fan-flippin-tastic. Some people came as pirates, while others came in all sorts of other costumes. We didn't leave until after 3am and the party was still going when we hit the road. It was a great night.

A pirate fight broke out...even Peter Pan got in on the action:

LTM was Doug's House:

I was LTM: True Hollywood Story:

Aaron as Dirty Doug...wow...just, wow.

Yes, Nate is a douche bag:

Pirate Chris (aka Captain Jack Sparrow) & Samoa Steve (aka Giant Pirate)

The clerks in their rockin' safari suits:

A couple of latino kings:

By far, the coolest part of the night was the Tongan fruit bat that our friend Alden brought to the party. It's just a baby, so it can't fly yet. Only in American Samoa would you be able to play with a real live bat at your Halloween party.

As the night went on, we found more and more uses for Samoa Steve's awesome pirate sword. Here he is chopping Doug's cucumber with his sword. Don't ask why Doug has a cucumber in his shorts...long story. Check out Aaron as Dirty Doug doing his weights in the background and watch Jeremy's face after the chop is made...priceless.