Had a fun Halloween. We went over to Lisa's for dinner and handing out candy. (She lives in a neighborhood with trick-or-treaters, unlike us.) When she ran out of candy, we walked down to the block party a couple of streets over and sat with Joe and his neighbors for awhile while they dispensed candy from the "candy cauldron," actually a gorgeous Le Creuset casserole. At some point they put a skull inside the cauldron, stuck candy in its nose and eye sockets, and started making the kids take the candy out of the skull. Most kids didn't have a problem with it, but a few were too scared to take the candy from the skull's eyes. One little boy actually held the lid down on the cauldron to keep us from showing the skull to his younger sister! That was so sweet.
After the block party we drove out to Chapel Hill for a party at Calvin's house in Southern Village. There were some great costumes! My favorite was the woman dressed as an Egyptian queen, with a pleated dress and really nice-look headdress. I think the crowd-pleaser was the "spam filter," who wore a netting wrapped around his body that had pop-up ads hanging all over it.
I wasn't planning on wearing a costume, as I said, but my friend Kevin gave me the idea to go get some false eyelashes and white lipstick. It's amazing what make-up can do to make an outfit I'd wear any weekend look like a go-go dancer costume. Georg went the same route, wearing one of his swanky shirts and carrying a martini glass. Instant lounge lizard! (The funnypart was, someone at Calvin's party thought he was a "lounge wizard." Whatever that is!) Lisa was dressed as a Victorian, with a little half-cape and a very cool torn up old umbrella that may have actually been Victorian. Unfortunately I didn't get a photo of it. That umbrella would go really well with a "Victorian ghost" costume.
I tried to slick down and straighten my hair, but it eventually sprang up into a sort of finger-wave shape. Maybe next year I'll check out the Vintage Vogue patterns from the 20's and 30's, because that hairstyle would go with that era really well. Of course, only if Lisa's idea doesn't pan out, of getting a whole group together to dress like characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Both of you looked just smashing! Conga rats!
B loaned me her Black Death World Tour t-shirt, since mine is in the laundry, and I wore a long rat handpuppet. I ended being The Halloween Rat, who brings candy corn to good little gamers on Halloween.