Leaves in colours red, orange and yellow fell from the sky. Not one greenry to be found. The ham-hams were busy in the yard outside the clubhouse, racking the leaves into piles, then jumping into them, then doing the work again. There was more playing then working.

Then came along a grey hamster, carrying a letter, walking toward the ham-hams. He was Postie the mail carrier. Sending an invation to the ham-hams. They noticed him quickly.

"Hamha, Postie." the ham-hams called.

"Hamha, ham-hams!" Postie replied. "I have a speical invetaion for all of you!"

"I'll read it!" Maxwell called, and so he did.

It was an invation to a party, celebrating Pumpkin Festival, also known as Halloween. Every ham-ham from Ham-Ham Land, has to come for some fun and games, and lots of suger-coated sunflower seeds.

"Wow! I can't wait to go!" Bijou shouted with glee.

"Wait!" Hamtaro shouted. "What's the Pumpkin Festival?"

"What? You mean you didn't know?" Postie asked.

"We didn't know, either." the other ham-hams replied.

"Ok, well... let's see... where to start..." Postie started. "The Pumpkin Festival, is where in olden days, hamsters used to crave scary faces on Pumpkins, calling them Jack-O-Lanturns, after some guy who lost his head, and used a pumpkin instead. It soon became famous around the hamster world, so on October 31 night, would start the Pumpkin Festival. Some years later, children got the idea of dressing up in scary costume, going trick-or-treating."

"And trick-or-treating is?" Oxnard asked.

"It's where you go to door to door. Shouting trick-or-treat, then you get a trick or a treat." Postie replied.

"A treat? Sounds yummy!" Oxnard said while his mouth drooled.

"The letter also says to dress into costumes to the party." Maxwell mentioned.

"Do they have to be scary? I want to be a beautiful princess." asked Bijou.

"Oh, they can be scary or beautiful, or whatever. It's your choice." Postie replied. "Well, I must go, it's getting near October 31st, so I better hurry and deliver the rest of these invations."

"Bye-Q!" the ham-hams called.

"Ok, Ham-hams. We better hurry with our costumes, before the party." Boss said.

"Yes, let's hurry!" they all said.