Halloween!

How do you celebrate Halloween when the pumpkins are not yet in season? Watermelons, of course. Three carefully selected watermelons were carved to scare the neighbors (and any other wandering daemons).

We lit the jack-o-lanterns with electric tea lights that we found at the apartment. If this apartment doesn't have it somewhere, it doesn't exist.

Then the goblins started to show up. Tobie sacrificed a pair of his u-trousers for a lizard (we call the bomb-pop because of its multiple colors). After our house, the goblins made the tour of the other apartments (at least those who understand what Halloween is all about). One of the apartments even added to the candy haul the kids made.

We plan to drive south to Lake Nyasa along the western border of Tanzania. It is supposed to be a lovely lake and many historic and native sites along the way. It is a fair long drive so we are breaking it up in two pieces and will get to the north end of the lake Thursday night and make it to the lake on Friday. I suspect that we won't be able to update the blog along the way so you will just have to wait until we return on Sunday evening.