Halloween

the 31st of October was Halloween. For the past month, stores everywhere were decorated in the spirit of Halloween with cobwebs, spiders, vampires, carved pumpkins aka. Jack-o-lanterns,....Halloween is not an American tradition and was started here by the immigrants who moved from Ireland, England....It started of from All Souls Day. They believed that evil spirits were out that day and would put out food for the souls roaming around. it slowly moved to dressing up in scary costumes to fool the evil spirits so they wouldn't be harmed.
Anyways, we visited the Halloween Parade in New York ( not the ideal way to celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary on the same day )......didn't know what to expect when we left home...but was really fun to look at people dressed and guess what their costume was....We got to see dressed as kings, queens, witches, Harry potter..a couple of Marilyn Monroes, the fat guy in 'Family Guy', pirates, Lady Gaga, Roman emperors, and a whole lot more...special mention of the cutest baby dressed as Batman. the rain played spoilsport..so couldn't really focus on clicking pictures.
The parade was on 6th Avenue from Spring Street. I was amazed to see how people really spent time and money on costumes, make-up, etc. zombies with blood spattered all over, ladies in Victorian costumes and venetian masks.
I even saw quite a few Indians who were dressed up for Halloween. Some of these people don't seem to celebrate Indian festivals with the same fervour. I say this because an acquaintance mentioned that the Indian children in their building went around trick or treating...but a month ago there was no special celebration for Diwali. I also noticed on my facebook live feed that some of the Indians I know in the US have put up photos of Halloween celebrations and none at all for Diwali. It is appalling to see these people embrace this culture and forget their own roots.