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Halloween has made it much further into Danish tradition than I originally expected.  This Sunday I went to Copenhagen famous Tivoli (world’s first amusement park) for their Halloween festival.

Now the decoration was nothing short of good and authentic fall with some 14,000+ pumpkins!  However I didn’t find it altogether spooky – which is fine I don’t care for spider webs fake or not, Halloween or not. So in that regard I was quite happy with their take on Halloween décor.

What was unimpressive is that I could not find one single vendor selling candy corn.  Uhm, did anyone check out Google before they decided to dedicate a huge amusement park to an originally American holiday? (I’m sure someone will soon tell me Halloween was originally from like Africa or something…)

Then there is my attempt to explain the damn things.  “Erhm… they are like pretty much colored confectioner’s compacted as a chew candy?” Haha… no clue.  I resorted to doing a Google image search and showing everyone instead.  And thanks to the lovely Cyndi Pebbles I will soon have some to share here.

Now here comes a really funny story.  I was also on a hunt for hot apple cider which may not be exactly Halloween specific but it’s as Fall as it gets, no?  So we went from vendor to vendor asking if they sold hot apple cider, “no”, “no”, “huh?”, “uhmmm no”… etc. Finally came upon a vendor selling the traditional Danish Christmas hot spiced wine and figured they’d be a good candidate.  “Do you have warm apple cider?” “Yep!”

What did she do? She took out a cold bottle of Sommersby cider (hard Swedish cider) and poured into a cup… took it over to the Espresso machine and STEAMED IT.  Who does thattt?! OMG! Hilarious.  In her defense, it was warm (luke warm) cider by definition. You just can’t help but laugh.

Anyway, I’ve gotten a little more into the Halloween spirit by now.  Might attempt a Sunday Halloween sweets get together with anyone interested.  Will make pumpkin pie (finally got the proper kind of pumpkin!) and some HOT APPLE CIDER (do you people make me do everythingggg from scratch in this forsaken country?!).  Who knows, maybe I can make Christian wear his cow costume.  Let’s all remember I got him in tights last year, how hard could it be?

Happy Halloween!

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