Oh what a glorious Halloween was had.
The festivities began the weekend prior to Halloween with Leslie, Mandy (out from Orem) and me getting gussied up for the YSA dance in Hartford, Connecticut. The theme was Hollywood and in honor of fake blood, we chose JAWS. Although we were too late to be included in the costume judging portion of the evening, it must be said we were the best.
Halloween morning, after a delightful sleep-in!! (oh I love sleep), Leslie and I donned our festive head costumes
and went to the annual dog costume contest/parade at Faneuil Hall.
3rd place:
Chicken Poodle Soup(~chicken poodle soup! chicken poodle soup! chicken poodle soup with a carrot on the side!!~)
2nd place:
The USS Minitz(this one was my favorite, so creative and the poodle was very classic)
1st place:
Shark attack!!(way to represent!)
After the parade we headed back to our neck of the woods for the Vegetarian festival, taking place just a block from our house. All the free meat substitute tofu product samples a girl could want! Nobody seemed to mind that I was dressed as a notorious meat eater and we went home with two giant tubs of hummus a vendor was trying to get rid of. Success!!
When Leslie and I got home and got our year supply of hummus safely put away in the fridge, we decided to bike some vegan cookies we had just bought over to our good friend James' house to wish him a Happy Halloween. The weather had decided to pretend it was summer and our bike ride was lovely. A few blocks from our house I noticed I was feeling especially free and untethered on my bike, at which point Leslie suddenly asked me "where's your helmet?" Oops. For the sake of beating the dark I threw caution to the wind and we continued to James'. Going to turn down his street, Leslie again broke the silence with a "there he goes!" James was just turning down the street in his car. I've never thought of James as a wild driver, in fact, I often liken his driving to my grandmother's, however we chased him unsuccessfully a number of long blocks until he finally pulled over to let a cop pass by. Ahh, the exhilaration of chasing cars wildly through Dorchester without a helmet! Quite a thrill. When we finally met up with him, we found, to our delight, that James was looking for some Halloween cheer. So of course
we invited him over to carve squashes, play Rumis, and eat hummus.
After James left we finished off the evening with the classic "Sixth Sense" (oh M Night Shyamalan. You silly thing.) and then this pooped little shark went to sleep.
Happy Halloween!! Hope yours was lovely too and if you live in the vicinity please stop by sometime for some hummus. muah!
The pe-pum-can pie (which is really fun to say outloud, just please take a second and try it), was a heavenly mix of sugary carmelized goodness and the classic Thanksgiving pumpkin. Yes!!
