After school on Halloween, Riley, Luke, Sarah and I made a spur of the moment decision to go and look for pumpkins. We had seen a girl carrying one through school earlier that week and had been determined to find one of our own ever since. Thankfully one of the large supermarkets in Sarajevo had a few pumpkins and we cleaned them out and made our way back to Riley's house to carve them. I would be lying if I said we didn't get a few odd looks from passersby, four Americans carting pumpkins around isn't a normal sight in Sarajevo.
Buying our pumpkins
Then we got to Riley's house and realized that we were going to make a terrible mess and we needed some newspaper so we made an impromptu trip down the street.
As soon as we set the newspaper down we commenced the carving. It was slow going at first.
But in the end we got the hang of it and had some beautiful Jack-o-Lanterns to show for it! After our little party I headed back to my house by taxi. Let me tell you, there are few things that will earn you more strange looks from people on the street than standing on the corner holding a jack-o-lantern in a city that doesn't trick-or-treat. It was ok though, I had a fantastic Halloween!
My masterpiece
Happy (belated) Halloween!
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