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For Halloween this year, we are in Thailand, which is very different than in America. People here don't celebrate Halloween, but there were still lots of tricks and treats for me.

Getting to go on an elephant was the "trick." We rode them to the river. When we got to the water, they made us take everything off except our clothes. We had to give them our shoes, hats, and all of our valuable things, but we didn't know why. When we got in the water, the elephant suddenly sat down, and then the person that was steering, made the elephant lay down on its side. Then, we knew why they made us take off all our valuables -- because we were going to get wet! We were all scared until we found out that they did it on purpose. The elephant sat back up and my Dad and I got back on. Then, it sprayed water on us with his trunk. The elephants kept on doing it until we all yelled for them to stop. It was annoying, but fun. We all had a good time. That was the funniest Halloween trick ever.

Happy Halloween, everybody! I'm in Thailand for Halloween this year and instead of running around in some cool costumes collecting an assortment of wonderful candy of various flavors and colors, we are doing some things of a different nature. The first thing we did was take a wooden boat down a river to an area of small mud houses with leaf-covered roofs. We stopped there to take a look at a tribe where women put coils around their necks. Over time, the coils push their ribs down and make it look like they have really long necks. They also wear ornaments on their head, like long pieces of fabric coming down from another piece of cloth. When we were walking around their village, we were shocked to find that a lot of the smaller girls had the coils too.