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Tips for Throwing a Halloween Party at Your Apartment

It’s time to start planning a Halloween party at your Arrive Watertower apartment. Enjoy time with friends by playing games, eating Halloween treats, and having fun! Enjoy your month here in Eden Prairie, MN. Halloween Games Costume Contest This is an easy and a classic way to get everyone involved. Choose a few categories beforehand to help you judge the costumes. You can either have a board of judges that will choose the winning looks or you can have the guests choose their favorites. Either way, choose a variety of categories such as the scariest, funniest, most clever, and best overall costume. Each winner of the categories will go home with a prize. Halloween Movie Trivia Test your horror movie knowledge with some movie trivia perfect for the occasion. This is a fun game that all your guests will enjoy. Come up with some questions and play a game of your choosing. Or click on the link above to choose a game that will work for your group. Make it more fun by offering a cool prize to the winner. Halloween Treats Red Hot Candy Apples These apples coated in red hot candies have quite the kick of spicy cinnamon. The recipe comes from Mom Start . Here’s a list of the ingredients you’ll need to make these fiery apples: your favorite variety of apples, skewers or popsicle sticks, sugar, light corn syrup, red hot candies, red food coloring, and water. Pumpkin Spiced Shortbread with Apple Cider Buttercream If you like shortbread cookies, you will definitely like this Pumpkin Shortbread from The Cafe Sucre Farine. It’s topped with a decadent apple cider buttercream that everyone is sure to love. For the shortbread cookies, you’ll need these ingredients: butter, powdered sugar, flour, cornstarch, pumpkin pie spice, salt, and vanilla extract. For the buttercream frosting find apple cider, dark brown sugar, butter, powdered sugar, vanilla extract, and half and half. What’s your favorite Halloween party game? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading! Visit the Arrive Watertower Blog again next month for more apartment living tips and seasonal fun posts!

Holidays to Celebrate in September

September may not be the month you think of when it comes to holiday celebrations, but it can be full of opportunities for fun. This month you can find all kinds of quirky holidays to celebrate. Today our Arrive Watertower Blog has a list of some of these holidays for you to celebrate here in Eden Prairie, MN. Celebrate a holiday or two and enjoy! Read a Book Day (September 6) Celebrate this holiday by going to a public library or a bookstore near your apartment and looking for a new read. We suggest Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward if you’re looking for something newer. You could also pick up a classic book such as The Book Thief . Chocolate Milkshake Day (September 12) This is a holiday that deserves to be celebrated! Who doesn’t love a creamy chocolate milkshake? Visit an ice cream shop near you to pick one up, or make a shake at home with a few ingredients and a blender. Try this homemade chocolate milkshake recipe if you want an idea for where to start. National Apple Dumpling Day (September 17) National Apple Dumpling Day will get you in the mood for autumn in no time! Try out this recipe for old-fashioned apple dumplings to make your own. It’s sure to please your friends and family. Visit the a local farmer’s market to pick up fresh-picked apples and support local businesses while you do. Enjoy! Confucius Day (September 28) Confucius was a man who was estimated to have been born in 551 B.C. in China. He felt an obligation to bring good principles back to existence during a turbulent time in China. He believed in self-discipline as well as in loving others and having compassion. Celebrate Confucius Day, his birthday, on the 28th by living by one of his principles conveyed through his many quotes. Here are a few of his quotes : “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” What holidays are you planning to celebrate this month? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading. Happy September!

Books for Your Summer Reading List

Summer is the perfect time to make time for your goals and hobbies, especially ones that help you explore the world around you! This season is the prime time for traveling, but if you’ve got a book, you don’t even have to leave your Arrive Watertower apartment in Eden Prairie, MN to discover new worlds. Today we have books to put on your summer reading list to help you. Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart “From the author of the unforgettable New York Times bestseller We Were Liars comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel--the story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.” The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan (2017) “In The Weight of Him Billy Brennan undergoes an unforgettable journey in a startling attempt to resurrect his family and reignite hearts, his own most of all....Told against the picturesque yet haunting backdrop of rural, contemporary Ireland, The Weight of Him is a big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives.” The White Album by Joan Didion Joan Didion examines the wreck of the sixties with poignant and perceptive essays like “The White Album,” “James Pike, American,” “Holy Water,” “Georgia O’Keefe.” and “On the Morning After the Sixties.” Didion’s work, though no longer contemporary, still holds the bite and sting it held when first published. New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson “It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building, Kim Stanley Robinson shows us how one of our great cities will change with the rising tides.” What books are you currently reading? What are you looking forward to reading? Share your recommendations with the rest of us by leaving a comment! We hope you have a great time reading this summer!