They don’t celebrate Halloween here in Japan, but they do get excited about doing so on base. And I mean both the American and Japanese kids. So I took my two seven year old students trick or treating. They have to be with an American military ID holder to get on base so they were pretty excited. Rina had gone the year before, but Risa had never been. I picked them up at 4pm and we got to base around 4:30. DJ met us at the gate and we started. It took us a little while to get into a groove, but soon we were knocking on doors and running down the stairs of the towers like mad. Risa had these pink plastic shoes on with little plastic balls in the heel so every time she took a step (especially down the hallway of stairs) she clattered like crazy. I was thankful that I wasn’t trying to rest in any of those apartments. They were both adorable though. Oddly, all the pictures came out blurry. I blame the incompetent photographer. They scored a ton of candy. The bags started to get a little heavy about halfway through and so we put some of it into plastic bags and left them in the car. At the end of the night, those bags were FULL. Their mothers probably want to kill me. It was a good night, though. I loved seeing all the kids in their costumes. I saw quite a few transformers, black spidermen and princesses. Very fun. Very fun, indeed.