October 2007

Halloween in Chongqing

I went to China with my family to adopt our baby sister, Quinn. At first, we went to Beijing for two days. The next day we went to Chongqing. That afternoon we got the babies. It was very sad but not many of the babies cried.

Then Halloween arrived. I was sad not to be at home, but I knew it would be a lot of fun to have Halloween in China. Including me and my brother, there were six big kids on our trip, aged 4-9 (big Quinn, David, Katie, Ella, William and Lachlan).

That day at breakfast, Yulin surprised us and got us some masks and hats and some people had also brought some Halloween stuff from home. Before we went trick or treating that evening, we had face painting in my dad and mom’s room. After that, Yulin took the kids to look at this dance club in the basement of our hotel called The Pirates Pub. It was very cool and was actually decorated for Halloween. We went trick or treating to the rooms of all ten families in our travel group. By accident David and I knocked on the door of a Chinese guest and we ran away. We all got a lot of candy and we had a lot of fun. Yulin gave us all some special candy made out of sesame which was delicious.

When we went back to Beijing one of the things we did was to visit the Forbidden City. My brother William got lost and we couldn’t find him for 5 minutes but one of the other fathers (Alan) was the one who found him in the middle of a crowd of Chinese people trying to help him. That was good. We had a good day at the Forbidden City.

Then we went home to Toronto. Most of the families were on our plane. I hope you liked my report on China and especially Halloween in China.

Lachlan Carmichael