In the middle of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, what adventure does Bod face?

It is difficult to know for certain what you consider the
middle of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. However, one
interesting adventure Bod faces in what seems to be the story's midpoint is Bod's
attendance at the dance of the Macabray.

Bod is not
supposed to leave the graveyard, but the other residents begins to talk mysteriously
about an upcoming event in town, and their secretive messages to each other make mention
of this occasion:

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One and all will hear and
stay

Come and dance the
Macabray.

One day, Bod can
smell the scent of flowers growing at the Egyptian Walk. Bod arrives to see a Mrs.
Caraway, "the Lady Mayoress," collecting flowers with men that are carrying baskets.
They cut flowers to fill all the baskets. Bod moves throughout the graveyard, but it
seems abandoned, which frightens him. When Bod goes to town, people are milling about
and every "Man, woman and child" is being given one of the flowers from the graveyard to
wear. Most people take one, though no explanation is given other than "It's a local
tradition."

Music is playing, though it's hard to tell from
where it comes. Bod asks for a flower and learns that this tradition has come from years
past, from "the Old Town...before the city grew around it." The people walk in time to
the music or sway to the rhythm. Then the music stops and the clock strikes midnight.
From the graveyard, its occupants—his friends and "family"—walk down the hill. Some
people in the town square are frightened, but others don't seem to notice anything
unusual. The ghosts dance with the people.

Liza Hempstock,
the ghost of the young witch, takes Bod's hand and they dance, and Bod experiences great
joy. The dance steps come to him easily...

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...his feet moved as if they know the steps
already, had known them
forever.

The living and the
dead dance. Liza tells Bod that the living don't remember the dance when it's over, but
the ghosts do. The Lady on the Grey arrives, and the dance starts over, as those present
say:

Now the
Lady on the Grey

Leads us in the
Macabray.

Bod sees Silas
watching, but his guardian disappears into the shadows. Bod then joins in the last dance
with the Lady on the Grey and they speak. When the dance is over, Bod feels suddenly
very tired. He looks around and his friends and the Lady on the Grey have left. The
townspeople sleepily make their way home.

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The town square was covered with tiny white
flowers. It looked as if there had been a
wedding.

This chapter is
entitled "The Danse Macabre," and I believe that Macabray is a form of the word
"macabre" for "Macabray" is how the word "macabre" would sound if spelled the way it
looks, but is it French and sounds like "ma-'kab" (as the "e" is silent). " title="macabre"
href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/macabre">Macabre" can refer to
something relating to death, but also it is:

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...suggestive of the allegorical dance of
death.

The next day, no one
will speak of the events of the night before. Bod gets frustrated and angry. Josiah
Worthington says:

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The dead and the living do not mingle, boy…If it
happened that we danced the danse macabre with them, the dance of
death, then we would not speak of it, and we certainly would not speak of it to the
living.

So it would seem that
the dance was, in fact, the dance of death. This was Bod's adventure in Chapter
Five.