There are many stories about Halloween. Like my Instructor's version, he said that they celebrate Halloween to chase evil spirit away with evil too. So that's why many people wearing evil or scary costume in Halloween. Here I try to tell you my experience of celebrating Halloween.
It's not Halloween if we don't carve Pumpkin. Luckily Jenny (Indonesia) has a friend (Dan, from Romania) who has a car and they brought me, Rani (Indonesia) and Shehzadi (Pakistan) to see the Pumpkin farm and buy a Pumpkin to carve. We went to Half Moon Bay - a small city about one hour south from SF. We passed a Pacifica beach on our way so decided to enjoy the view. Pacifica is the largest beach in California and the most popular beginner surfing spot in San Francisco area.
Then we arrived at one of the Pumpkin farm in Half Moon Bay to buy our Pumpkin. It was a great experience knowing how do they sell the Pumpkin. It's not just a selling a Pumpkin. They made the farm as comfortable as possible for family to visit and stay there. They built a Labyrinth, a tour in the farm, and they designed the farm so good for us to stay.
And now there is almost no praying celebration for Halloween again, they celebrate with a costume party. And in San Francisco, Castro is considered as the best spot to celebrate Halloween. I prefer in another part of San Francisco, because Castro is famous as a place for "rainbow" people. But since I didn't know if I could celebrate Halloween anymore, so I took that heavy burden and went to Castro with all the CCIP gang.
Yes it was fun when we were arrived at Castro Street. It was so crowded with people wore their costumes. After we took a walked wondering around the street, we saw more. We saw a guy who was wearing a without costume-costume (read: naked) and I was like holding my breath for a second and then "did you see that?" and all of us, we saw that and kind of making a wanna puke face, because I was not used to that kind of view in my country. The streets were full of people walking, talking, commenting someone else's costume, and lining to got in to the bar.
Because we started to get bored just walking in the street and couldn't find a bar, we decided to go to Downtown. While we were taking a picture at the Union Square, some random guy in a Ninja costume suddenly posed with us and then the people who's just walked there took us a picture too. I felt we were kind of famous at that time. Downtown was not as crowded as Castro, but I prefer there because there more hot girls there, and the bars weren't so crowded, so we could enter one of them. The next couple hours we spent in the bar until over midnight.
It was quite an experience that might never happen to me anymore. Enjoy everything you have here. Maybe it would be your last. But maybe I can come here again. Happy Halloween San Francisco
