Halloween happens on October 31st.  It is a custom for the children to dress up in costume and go”trick o’ treating” through the neighborhood.  They knock on doors and yell trick o’ treat.  The person that lives there, opens the door and gives them some candies.  But for the adults, they dress in costumes and go to parties or parade down Waikiki from one end near the zoo to the beginning of Waikiki.  This parading is so much fun to see.  The costumes are homemade and very original and sometimes very very scary.  The people act out there characters and are so realistic.  Every year we used to walk up and down Kalakaua just to see the costumes and enjoy the Halloween festivities.  It usually starts around 7:00pm till around 10:oopm.  Many houses in the residential areas decorate the front of their houses with ghosts, spiders, jack’o lanterns ( pumpkins carved with scary faces), witches or even sit on the front porch in costume with a basket of candies and suddenly move and scare the children who thought it was just a prop.  Halloween time is a lot of fun for all!