While Halloween isn't celebrated much in France, it's gained popularity in the last 5-10 years. That said, trick or treating happens in a different way. Kids beg for candy or cookies and wait for (nice) people to find something for them or get turned away. It's not part of the culture or a tradition. November 1st is their day for respecting the dead with flowers at the cemetery. A friend had organized a party so I offered to do some pumpkin carving with the kids at our house to start things off. None of them had done it before so it was lots of fun. Weren't we surprised when the pumpkins cost around 10€ at the store! We put together a little soup so as to not waste our precious pumpkins!
The gang does some carving. One boy wouldn't have anything to do with touching the inside of the pumpkin!
Thinking out the plan and preparing the seeds for roasting.
Corinne and Pascale put together ingredients for the soup.
This escargot was attached to the pumpkin when we went to bring them home!
Voldemort and his mama
