Best.Holiday.Ever.
Seriously, I love Halloween so much. We need more holidays that involve dressing in costumes, masks, watching scary movies, and maximising party opportunities ... all in my favourite autumn season!
Slight rant directed towards the absurd special event that the Indianapolis Zoo hosted. ZooBoo has been excellent in the past, but this time the grand total of candy that Elle collected was 8 pieces. Yes, you read that correctly. Why bother with giving the kids the bags? What they really needed were folders, to collect all the crap paperwork they passed out. Nothing like turning on a 4 year old like coupons for kids meals at barely mid-range chain restaurants, advertisement for a private school, toy advertisements, and my personal favourite, a discount for a Sam's Club membership. It would seem that the zoo rented out tables to companies and this was what was deemed acceptable. I thought Halloween was safe from the commercialism disaster that Christmas has been transformed into, but holiday commercialism is another entire rant that I'll spare you for now :) Anyway, Princess for ZooBoo and Jessie from Toy Story on Halloween night, her awareness of the awesomeness for dress up takes another gigantic step forward!
Meanwhile, the adult Halloween marches onward! Eric had the good fortune to be sitting next to Michelle Branch on his flight back from Denver, who gave him two tickets to the first annual Gravedigger Ball that she was opening. I went as a gypsy or pirate, and Eric went as a 1930's bartender...
Michelle Branch, dressed as a safari member from an earlier era did a wonderful job with the opening and exposed me to her music for the first time. Anybody that leads the crowd in the theme song for the Flintstones for her encore and knows the tunes for multiple levels of Mario gets my praise and respect regardless of her tendency towards country music :P
The costume contest produced some seriously amazing costumes. Absolutely awesome and levels of effort that I can only barely conceive. I posted my favourite, and am very sad that I didn't get Frankenstein and his bride. They deserve honours as well.
The Mad Hatter got my vote.
The Hans Solo deal was pretty popular.
These guys were great :)
The photo does not do these guys justice...best undead I've seen!
