Halloween In Cork!

So this is my first Halloween abroad, and this weekend went really well! My three friends and I decided to make our own costumes, and we were the four suits from a deck of cards. We found matching skirts, got some tights, felt, and white tank tops and my friend Katie got to sewing. A creative, cheap costume (under 10 euro!), and it worked really well! Here's a picture of us:

We all were missing fall in New England, so we tried to do as many Halloween-y activities as possible. We made homemade hot apple cider - apple juice, cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, ginger, cloves. And for going out at night, adding a little amaretto and rum tasted lovely. We drank the hot apple cider with cinnamon sticks in our little mugs and felt super festive.

Homemade Cider!

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups!

We went to a Halloween party at this bar, (the old jazz club I mention a lot) The Bodega on Saturday Night which was pretty fun. The bar was decorated and everyone was in costume, dancing. The only let down of the night, was that we were supposed to go see a showing of Rocky Horror, but unfortunately it was false advertising and just a Rocky Horror themed party.


We also downloaded some Halloween movies online (Hocus Pocus and Halloweentown) and had a movie night. We made homemade peanut butter cups too and they were absolutely delicious!

On Sunday, the actual Halloween day, Jenny, Katie and myself walked to the Cork City Jail, which is refirbished and offers tours to the public. They give you an old Sony Walkman (awesome!) and you walk around on your own, listening to the audio tour. There's old cells with wax figures of former historical prisoners, wax guards, creepy sounds being played over loudspeakers, and old prisoner graffiti preserved on the wall. For 6 euro, it was a great historic and festive way to do something "Halloween-y."