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The Papa Jack’s Kids Halloween Party on Saturday the 31st of October was great fun – over 60 kids attended along with a lot of their parents! valeriaCostumes included; pretty princesses, Disney characters, a ninja, soldiers, scary skeletons, witches and monsters, pirates, superheroes, an Egyptian goddess, power rangers, punk party girls and many more. Part of the afternoon’s fun was a costume competition, the results of which are as follows:
  • ‘Best costume’  went to Patricia Proaño’s daughter, Valeria for a fabulous «Raggedy Anne» doll complete with red yarn hair and striped stockings.
  • Scariest costume prize went to five year old, Mariangelica Rosario Torres, for a horrifying headless man with a baby coming from his stomach!
There was a great finger food buffet, prepared by Chef Antonio and crew, for the kids, which included mini burgers, wiggly worms, mini hot dogs, mini pizzas, empañadas and fries, and plenty of soft drinks to wash it all down. Probably the best part of the Party was the upstairs «Haunted House» – spooktacularly decorated by Justin Black, and apjkidshalloween03number of his friends, for the Papa Jack’s late night party with cobwebs, blood, chains, skeleton lights, rats and bats all lit with black light, green lasers and smoke filled black cave-like rooms. For the kid’s tour, scary music with eerie noises, chilling screams and thunder filled the air and a special surprise was in store when a guest host – «Scary Monster» himself Ed Loseman in black cape and «Scream» mask – crept out of the darkness, to the horror of the little ones and kept them screaming for more. Even a few of the adults got a chilling surprise. Needless to say most of the kids had a go a few more times, and even after the monster had retired for the night there were many requests for him to come back. Following the Haunted House the upstairs turned into a dance party for the kids including tunes from Michael Jackson’s «Thriller», Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and lots of the Jonas Brothers. pjkidshalloween06Included in the cover charge, each child received a «trick or treat» bag with an assortment of candies. To end the party, all the spare candies were put in a piñata – great fun for the kids as they madly scrambled to collect as much extra candy as they could! There were lots of requests to do this again next year  – so maybe Papa Jack’s will look at making it an annual event. Thanks to all who attended and helped to make the party a success.
Thank you to Stephanie Brennan, who contributed this article!
Thank you to Patricia Proaño, Emanuela Giovannetti, Stephanie Brennan and Mylyn Vedel who contributed the photos!