Out of character

I'm not usually much for Halloween, or any new, imposing American holiday for that matter (i'm looking at you, Valentines Day!), but we kind of decided to go all in and embrace Halloween this year.
We're doing this thing at the shop, and on Saturday we went on a cheesy Halloween-themed Tivoli date!
And much to our surprise, we liked it.
The decorations in the old amusement park were generally cute and fun, and the mood was full of autumnal goodness.
And that place always smells of sugar and popcorn, so you know, bonus right there!

While we were walking around, we got to talking about why we rarely go to Tivoli around Christmas time where they have a similar thing going on, and we decided that the difference is guilt. Halloween is guilt free for us.
It's not even a real holiday, no one is expecting you to do anything or buy anything, and it doesn't lead up to anything bigger than a party, at the most.
Whereas Christmas is the mother of all holidays, and therefor, basically fueled by guilt.
Christmas is several months of hype and consumer madness, of stressing over buying friends and family juuust the right piece of whatever junk they probably don't want or need, and of doing things exactly the way your supposed to because "that's tradition".
And it all starts so very soon, always sooner than you'd like it to.
So it was nice to enjoy something holiday like, but way less... pressure-y.


 Uuuuhh, scary (but not really)

Pumpkins everywhere

So much like Christmas, only... not


We didn't go on any rides (although i may have begged and pleaded until i saw the price of an individual ticket to the roller-coaster, and goddamn!) but we did go eat some pretty good pseudo-Japanese food at Wagamama.

Almost like on a real date.*

*Another concept i personally can't stand, but that's a rant for another day.