Halloween Night

Megan, myself, Kristen, Matt, Heather, and Dave went out last night for Halloween. We started out at The Midland for the T6: Terror At the Midland event, which is basically a huge party with lots of alcohol. Megan and I haven't done anything like this, so we didn't really have an expectation going in. It turns out that some organization rented out The Midland and turned it in to a giant night club. Girls still got to dress like "Sexy _________", the lines for the bar were super long, and people were retarded; so basically it was exactly like a night club.

Costume Highlights:

- The "FedEx Mail-Order brides"
- The group of girls dressed as yellow Peeps.
- The spot on Pretty Woman (Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward)
- The guy/girl combo dressed as Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich from 5th Element
- The cardboard Optimus Prime
- The other guy dressed as a Ghostbuster who had a custom built proton pack
- The guys dressed as Spartan soldiers from 300
- The Sweeney Todd group
- The guys pretending to be from the Cobra Kai dojo dressed as skeletons for Halloween

Epic Costume Failures:

- Anyone dressed as Sarah Palin or a hockey mom
- The group of guys wearing the capri-style swim Speedos, swim caps, and t-shirts that read "If drinking were an Olympic sport, I'd win gold"
- The guy wearing the flight suit pretending to be Maverick who was very obviously checking out our girls
- The guy wearing just a Speedo
- Pretty much anyone dressed as or pretending to be Michael Phelps

The Biggest Failure of the night:

Only having 4 bartenders to serve 2700 people. I'm convinced people were ordering 4 drinks at a time and then getting back in line because they could finish them before they could order again.

We bailed at 11:00 when the free bars closed and drove over to Charlie Hooper's in Brookside. Hooper's was much less crowded, so we could actually order drinks from the bar without waiting in line for 30 minutes. I guess the regular crowd wasn't expecting people to be dressed up for Halloween, so some of the older folks couldn't stop staring at us when we went to the bar. I caught some guy staring at me because I had my ecto goggles up on my forehead; I looked at him and said, "What?" like nothing was wrong which made him look away in shame.

Epic Awkward Moment:

A random girl credit carding my ass crack as she walked by. Megan saw it and just about threw down with her while I stood there like a doofus with my mouth hanging open.

I don't know how long we were at Hooper's, but after a while we left and walked down to the Brooksider (the kickball bar). They were super crowded, super busy, and it was just as loud as The Midland. Nothing really notable happened at the Brooksider, other than getting the biggest cups of beer I have ever seen for $5. I immediately passed one of those off because the night would not have ended well if I had attempted to finish them both.

I'm not sure how long we were at the Brooksider either, but we left at 2:00ish, went to Taco Bell, and then went home.

My Costume (Pics to come):

I had the idea to make a Ghostbusters uniform about 2 months ago but had to table it because I found out that we were doing a group costume thing. Naturally, that plan fell through last week and having lost the motivation to dress up, I decided I was going to take the easy way out and be House (Dr. Gregory House, MD), meaning at most, I'd have to buy a cane and not shave for 2 weeks.



That changed on Wednesday due to my face being unbearably itchy and my new found inspiration to make a Ghostbusters uniform. I rush ordered the patches on Wednesday and bought the rest of the supplies I needed for the utility belt and ecto goggles on Wednesday and Thursday. I know it's not "movie accurate," but considering that I had exactly 48 hours to put all of this together, I thought it turned out great.

The only hiccup I had was that the patches were sent via express mail and I guess someone has to sign for it when it's delivered. No one was home when the mail guy came by, so I didn't get my patches until today. I had to print out the patches and pin them to the uniform last night, which I was seriously distressed about, but it really didn't matter since I got a lot of compliments and random "DUDE! You're Spengler!" comments from random people at all three bars. Fortunately we're going to a kickball Halloween party tonight so it's not a total bust.



The best comment I got was from another guy dressed as a Ghostbuster (his was from a costume-in-a-bag) and he said, "Your uniform is so much better than mine." My outfit wasn't best in show quality but that really made my night. My goal for the next year is to build a custom proton pack and ghost trap. If I can pull them off, I'll be set for Halloween for the next 5 years.