Happy Halloween!

It's over now, but Halloween is my favourite holiday and I'm already looking forward to next year. It's also one of the biggest holidays in the US. It starts in early October, with people decorating their homes and having parties, and ends on Halloween night, on 31 October.

This year the street where I live had ghosts and skeletons hanging from trees, gravestones planted in gardens and giant cobwebs everywhere. One house even had a grim reaper standing in one of its windows. It freaked me out every time I walked past it!

On Halloween night, people of all ages dress up in costumes and go out to play. The younger kids go trick-or-treating, where they go from house to house collecting sweets. The bigger kids go to haunted houses, watch horror films and go to costume parties.

This year, my friends and I joined up to half a million other people at the West Hollywood Halloween Costume Carnival, which is a huge street party that happens here every year. City officials close off a big street called Santa Monica Boulevard and put six stages along it so people can party to live music all night long.

One of the concerts at this year's carnival was inspired by the musical film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is 35 years old this year. At the end of the night, performers set a world record by dancing to a famous song from the film called "The Time Warp" on all six stages at the same time. That was so amazing!