Halloween

Just the other day... err... week... it was Halloween (yes, I've been slack with updates, I'm sorry - busy!). I was prepared for it to be a little bigger than the Australian version, and those wacky Canucks still suprised me! We wandered some of the residential streets to catch some of the kids trick-or-treating, and some people had really gone to town on their homes; everyone had at least one carved pumpkin on their front steps, and some people had skeletons hanging from tree's in their yards, dry-ice machines generating ground-hugging fog, fake cobwebs and scary music booming from concealed speakers. Obviously, the kids where having a ball - I remember seeing one little kid carrying a bag full of candy bigger than he was.

We crashed a massive house-party on the Saturday before. Luckily our Canadian friends were right into the whole costume thing, and we went a bit over-the-top (to my Australian eyes) on our costumes. Luckily we did, because the 300+ people at the party where all dressed up, and some of the customes were amazing - one guy was a Christmas tree, complete with lights he could plug in whenever he was near a powerpoint! We also saw Jem, smoking with a Hari-Krishna and the Blues Brothers; a pregnant Girl Scout (there were several categories in which to win prizes - I think she was going for 'Most Offensive'); and Hugh Hefner, complete with toilet-bowl-sized Martini glass. Due to alcohol consumption, we neglected to take any photos once we got the party!

We did get a couple of shots of our costumes before we left for the party; also some at 5am in a 24-hour diner after the party, which are not meant to be viewed by the eyes of men (Elli to the waiter: "What do you have on tap?". Waiter: "It's five in the morning!". Elli: "So?!?". sigh.)

Matt as Static Cling! (the superhero responsible for making your socks stick together in the dryer), battling his archnemesis The Ninja of Liberty (who proves that combining two half-assed costumes creates an even more half-assed costume).

Seanna, the girl who had the worst day in history (broken heel inc. toilet paper, skirt tucked into stockings, There's-Something-About-Mary hair etcetera) and Little Miss O'Natural (aka Pamela Hilton) and her dog Fifi Fufu Poopoo III are shocked and awed by Static Cling!