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It was All Hallow’s Eve . . .

France isn’t big on Halloween (it really is a holiday of american invention) so it was up to Mister Cooper and I to make our own celebration.  As my American comrades were partying away back in my homeland, and while there were a few available parisian halloween parties to choose from, Mister Cooper and I settled in for a more private celebration of this beloved American holiday.  We opted to cuddle up, eat loads of popcorn and sugar-based snacks and watch movies that i’m usually too much of a wimp to handle.  Films that got top billing: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and Rosemary’s Baby.

Freddy Krugar’s really scary.

But I wasn’t too scared because I had these guys to watch out for me:

note their jaunty mustaches and killer berets. (the one on the left is a bit crooked, i know)

Also note the gummy smurfs in the foreground.  you can get gummy smurfs everywhere here.  I think they’re my new favorite vice.  And I discovered that the flavor builds on itself so that the more you eat consecutively, the yummier they are.

To ensure that we stuffed ourselves as much as Hanzel and Gretel in the Witches cabin, I made popcorn the old fashioned way - on the stove.  It was super easy and waaay yummier than that microwave crap.

I made three kinds: regular butter and sea salt (and i threw in m&m’s for good measure), gomasio and furikake, and butter and herbamare.  yum!  Also note our green “potions” (really just a minty french drink called a “diabolo menthe” - mint syrup and mineral water).  Mister Cooper’s back there noshing on some corn and setting up the films (we watch movies on the xbox)

This was my mom’s favorite movie concoction: popcorn and m&m’s.  In honor of her loving memory (and to satisfy my own love of the sweet with the salty).  Seriously, try it.

It was the perfect halloween for us.  cozy inside, me jumping at every sound and dustin giggling at my horror-film induced nervousness.