Our Halloween weekend probably started Thursday night when we watched the Gerard Butler movie version of Phantom of the Opera. Jacob had never seen it, and he needed to be up on the plot in advance of our Saturday plans... Anyway, Phantom is definitely a creepy, Halloween-appropriate selection.
Friday night we attended the Halloween activity at church for which we made and decorated these cupcakes. We think they're pretty great. :) Also at the activity we handed out goodies to trick-or-treaters from our car. Jacob was ultra-embarrassed that I decided to hand out juice boxes (100% juice) rather than contribute to the childhood obesity epidemic by giving candy. He assures me our house will get egged if I do that when we get back to the USA. 
Saturday we went to London with Becky & Mike. (You'll likely remember Mike from this post, but we've done lots of fun things with them that have featured on the blog.) We saw the brand-new West End sequel to Phantom, which is called Love Never Dies, also written by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It opened in March of this year, and it was definitely Halloween weekend-appropriate. It takes place on Coney Island about 10 years after the events of Phantom of the Opera. The show was incredible, and the guy who plays the Phantom (Ramin Karimloo) is super-talented. We also loved the special effects, and some of the songs really featured Webber's genius.
[The show was at the Adelphi Theatre, which you might remember we've visited before (in 2008) to see a West End show. ]
You can see from the above photo that we didn't dress up for Halloween. We ate yummy Mexican food (below) before calling it a day. It was a great day, for sure.
You can see from the above photo that we didn't dress up for Halloween. We ate yummy Mexican food (below) before calling it a day. It was a great day, for sure.
1 comment:
Was the play as good as Phantom? The cupcakes looked fantastic :) Love ya, Jenniebu
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