Halloween night 2016

A week or so ago, Jobe and Amber came up with the idea of going to Ebeye and pass out Halloween candy.  Their thinking was, besides that the Marshallese are great people, that all the kids over there want to come to Kwaj for Halloween, but only a small handful, like 100 including the parents, get to come here to collect candy on Halloween.  So they said we should get some people and go over there.

Ebeye used to and may still hold the title "most densely populated place on earth".  I think I read once 15,000 people on 90 acres.  Along with that, if I recall, the percentage of preteen children was like 65%.  That's a lot of kids.  I've not spent enough time over there, a mere two hours in two years.  It reminded me of Nogales Mexico.  A dilapidated little border town.  The homes are pieces together out of plywood of various colors and degrees of solidness.  The roofs are similar but usually made of some kind of metal.  Everything is pieced together.  Its dirty, streets are filled with bits of trash, and random dogs are walking around.  The dogs all look very similar but amazingly healthy.  The streets are narrow , but two cars can still pass between the ones that have curbs.  Some of the streets have pavement, and some of the buildings are built well.

I don't know what I spent on candy, but 12 bags of jolley ranchers, starbursts, twizzlers all individually wrapped filled up the one piece of luggage I'll be living out of for the next month on vacation.  Jobe ordered 16 pounds of candy from Amazon.  The 4 others had some, but not quite the amount we had.  In total we probably had 50lbs all together between the 8 of us.  Amber suggested we get a "taxi", which is a small pickup truck, and ride around in the back of it throwing the candy out.  Great, Great plan.  We would have been swamped and smothered by all this kids if we tried to just walk around.  With the truck we were able to stay in front of them a little.  It was like we created a little midget Zombie apocalypse.  The "zombies" weren't the "Walking Dead" version, they were so more nimble and quick like the "World War Z" zombies, except they were the cutest little zombies you have ever seen.

On the ferry to Ebeye, CaCaro is the Marshallese guy with the yellow stripes on his shoulder.  He can operate any piece of equipment.  Jokin, has his back to us.