how to throw a fall festival in grenada.

Step 1:  

Hire these two party planners. 

Step 2:

Hang fall leaves cut out from a brownie box from the ceiling and doorway of your kitchen.

Step 3:  

Make a "Jack'O Lantern" from a brown paper bag received when you bought some food from a local food stand [a "hot double" to be exact: chickpeas served on fried bread with mango/hot pepper sauce - sound gross?  It's actually amazing and now I want one...]

Step 4: 

Make a homemade centerpiece using an old wine bottle and more of that glorious cardboard from a cake mix box.  Surround the whole thing with beach glass from the local beach :)

Step 5:  

Make one of my favorite fall treats: spice cake mix and canned pumpkin - baked bite-sized.  Serve with Funfetti frosting as an option on the side [because it is just as amazing without frosting]

Step 6:  

Retrieve a care package from the post office downtown that contains candy corn exclusively sold in the US [donated by Marieke and Ryan].  Careful, it melts in the heat...

Step 7:  

Make brownies and sprinkle homemade caramel on top [left over from the HP party, ha!]

Step 8: 

Whip up a vat of cocoa tea and dish it out in any mugs you are blessed to have! 

Step 9:  

Invite people over!  Play Mafia, eat all the treats, drink all the cocoa tea, then end the night watching October Sky :)

Tah-dah!  You have the most perfect Grenadian Fall Festival this side of the equator. 

Note: take more pictures...unfortunately, Mafia left me too distracted to document the 10 people over last night :)  But it was a blast!  

[PS - Marike also received tattoos in her care package...note her willingness to give them to all fall festival attendees below...]

 And by the way: Happy Grenadian Thanksgiving!  

J and the rest of SGU has off today for the national holiday :) 

YAY! Hus is home! :)