What better way to celebrate an all-American holiday than with the American ambassador herself.
True enough, it was every inch a Halloween treat because the United States Ambassador to the Philippines MaryKay Carlson made a career out of it (a grotesque translation of that famous Pinoy catchphrase).

On Friday night she hosted the Great American Halloween Feast at her official residence in Forbes Park, Makati City.

"Welcome to our haunted mansion and to this Great American feast," greeted Carlson. She's dressed as a Halloween witch complete with pointy black hat and garbed in an elaborate long black dress with skull bracelets

"It's an honor for me to welcome you for what is a quintessential American holiday – the Halloween," she said before a select group of media.

The house was decorated and bedecked with all things spooky, scary and creepy — skeletons and cobwebs hanging from the wall lights or sitting on the piano and dining tables, yellow jack-o'-lanterns, disembodied heads, hands and feet, goblins, large spiders, bloody handprints, zombie, Dracula, vampire etc.