Halloween Time

Halloween day is celebrated on October 31, every year. This is a day when people wear costumes that usually not representing their daily look like. Mostly, they prefer to wear scary costumes including zombie, witch, dracula
, frankenstein, etc. For younger, they have choice to use a heroic costums or other costum that representing cartoon characters, for example disney princess, spiderman, batman, peter pan, or even darth vadder. The celebration was begun on the street, when a carnival (called Boo parade) consisted of various contestants, passed along the El Cajon boulevard. It's not a long carnival (about 1 hour of duration) since this wasn't the only carnival in San Diego. The contestants were from the county officials including Fire Department, Public Transportation, Mayor Sanders himself, and other party including Air Force, SDSU, schools, art clubs, sport clubs, circus, etc. They were just marching, riding a decorated vehicle, playing musical instruments, or demonstrating their skill such as dancing, cheerleading, or acrobating. The carnival was ended at Clay park (still near the El Cajon boulevard), where people could play another rides, play games at booths, found foods, or listen to the live music played on the stage. At the same site, we could also see dancing & costume festival. Actually it looked like a miniature of San Diego county fair. This mini county fair was scheduled until 7:00pm at that day. The other halloween celebration also took place at Fakhri's school on the following Monday. At this occassion, Fakhri used a funny pumpkin costume. There, parents were voluntarily opened either game or food booth, and joined the silent auction. The silent auction were for golf tickets, sea world tickets, zoo tickets, etc. These auction items ere also donated by parents or sponsors. The kids could buy 20 ticket for 5 bucks and gave this ticket every time they played games, visited the haunted house, or bought some foods. All profit from this event was donated to the school, which was aimed to improve its playground sites. It was such a creative way to raise fund from the school staff. Anyway, before the halloween celebration at the school yard, the school also made a trip to a pumpkin thatch place, where kids could buy a mini pumpkin and bring it to home for carved.