Happy Halloween!

On Wednesday night we had a Halloween party. We had some great costumes turn up for the occasion!

After being broken into 4 teams, we competed in 3 challenges for a bag of Minties, a highly coveted NZ candy in the Old Convent community. 

The first challenge was the Minties challenge. Wrapped Minties candies were tied to a string. Contestants were blindfolded and had to be the first to locate, unwrap, swallow, and yell the slogan of the candy. This proved to be a little challenging and completely hilarious. Sam (Eastern) uploaded a video of the nonsense to Facebook at this link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151161091632897

Row 1: Agatha got into the spirit of things! Legolas (Melissa, Westmont) made his 3rd appearance this semester and went hunting for peacocks (Toni, Westmont)
Row 2: Students competing in the Minties challenge. Jemaine (Kristen, Staff) and Brett (Sarah, Biola) from Flight of the Conchords showed up to the party!
Row 3: Jacob (Messiah) dressed up as his roommate Matt (Messiah). We went bobbing for apples. Scuba Steve (Tyler, Messiah) came most prepared for this challenge!
Row 4: Caleb (Staff) dressed up as Batman, while roommates Kris (Messiah) and Allie (Wheaton) came dressed as Russell and Mr. Hendrickson from the movie Up.

The next challenge was a nontraditional Jack-o-lantern contest. Each time had a different item of produce and had 15 minutes to create something. We had a pomegranate, pumpkin, pineapple, and swede. Everyone got to vote for their favorite carving. "Swede As", the pig carved from a swede, won this round.

Top Left: Two Face the pomegranate
Top Right: Timmy the pineapple hedgehog came in a close second
Bottom Left: "Swede As" the pig carved from a swede won this round!
Bottom Right: A Maori pumpkin, complete with waka and taiaha

For the final round, we went bobbing for apples. Some got a little more wet than others, but everyone who tried succeeded in retrieving their apple eventually!

As a bonus question, teams were asked to answer what vegetable was used as the original Jack-o-lantern. Amazingly, 3 groups gave the correct answer: a turnip.

Happy Halloween everyone!