Boo!!! Angelika the scary but friendly ghost

As  part of the  Halloween festivities at Coco Beach Island Resort, the Info-Activity Centre prepared some Halloween games for the children. The games consisted of two traditional Filipino games held at the children’s playground last Saturday, October 31, 2009.

Sunny and Kate getting their free Coco shirt after wining the pot hitting game

To start the games, Sunny Kim  from Korea   tried  to hit the clay pot filled with treats and goodies while he was blindfolded. The game is similar to the Mexican Pinata  where a child tries to  break  the pot  and  if he is successful, the treats are released and  a mad scramble to get them ensues. Sunny broke the pot after two tries and his mom,  Kate Kim, also won in the Mom’s division. Mother and son  won a specially designed Coco Beach t-shirt and Sunny also got a henna tattoo for free from our in-house artist.

The children during the pabitin

After this game, the children were treated to another Filipino game called “pabitin”,  where children have to jump  as high as they can  to get  treats  and goodies  hanging from a frame made of bamboo slats. The trick is as  you try to jump, the “pabitin” is jerked upwards to  prevent you from getting a treat.
 
Other activities included face-painting,  mask designing and t-shirt printing.

What's for dinner? I guess Jerry is!

Then the special creepy Halloween dinner which included a mean wicked witch’s soup with zombie fingers (breadsticks that really looked like   dead fingers  with   nails made from  roasted peanuts),  Dracula’s beef goulash, steamed sea creatures, black bat rice (steamed white rice mixed in squid ink) and baked monster’s eyes (tomatoes topped with cheese and olives) just to name a few of the menu. For dessert, Casper cupcakes  and Graveyard cake with cookie headstones were a hit with the guests.

Thomas and Susanne Voight...hmmm, who's that third one? Are we seeing ghosts?

The entire Carabao restaurant  were decorated with  silver broomsticks  and Halloween masks and monsters at the Anito Bar. Waiters and waitresses  served food and drinks  wearing scary but beautifully painted paper masks.
 
There was also a trick or treat roulette were  guests  were  made to choose between a trick or a treat  but all the participants played it safe by choosing treats such as  leche flan, ice cream and lollipops instead of boogers,  vomit  and skunk spray to name a few of the tricks.

Regine the devil and Jean the ghost

Master Nathaniel Vann,  9 years old, won the best in Halloween costume  when he came dressed in all white, with a ghost mask complete with scary pose. Other contestants  who joined  included devils, skeletons, zombies and monsters. For wearing the best Halloween costume, Nathaniel and his family  will be having a dinner at the Doña Lina Revolving Restaurant when they come back to Coco beach in three week’s time.

Persian ghosts Mohammadreza and Arash

For entertainment, the Coco Band  played  their very best  with  their line up of popular tunes and  also dressed for the occasion. Guests  also requested for their favorite songs which the band gamely performed.