Happy halloween!

Do you know why people started wearing costumes during Halloween? Our ancestors, probably the Celts, believed that during this day, spirits roamed. That’s why they wore costumes - to fool these spooks that they weren’t human.

Oh yeah, they’d believe you’re not human if you wore this.

All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.

This is now my top thing to see in Italy, more than the Tower of Pisa, the Colosseum, and the Fountain of Trevi – the color of the gondolas.

Apparently, orange and black are the predominant Halloween colors because orange is associated with the Fall harvest and black is associated with darkness and death.

I never really thought of that. I guess I always thought it’s orange and black because those are the colors of a Jack o’ Lantern.

3% of all photos taken in the US are taken at Disney World or Disneyland.

I actually thought the statistics would be higher.@_@

Every year in France there is a “Thieves’ Fair,” where people are encouraged to try to steal things from the stalls–if they think they can get away with it.

So is it something like, If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em?