Sunday, October 30, 2005

Halloweenies

We celebrated Halloween in style Saturday night, at a party in a bar in Chatswood. We also celebrated a narrow defeat of my cricket team, as we lost by only 20 runs (that is a really close score in cricket.) Our best game in several seasons, according to the team veterans.

I made my Marge Simpson outfit. A few tips if you plan on making on the same costume yourself: if you spray paint styrofoam balls red for a necklace, some of the red paint may come off the styrofoam and coat your neck and chin with a thin red veneer that does not come off after two showers and lots of scrubbing. Also, the large blue polyester helmet is quite heavy, and wearing a 10 pound weight on your head will give you a minor headache for twenty-four hours, as well as cause lots of problems walking under trees on the sidewalk. But I survived my ordeal, and was voted unanimously by Nick to have the best costume at the party.

Keeping in theme, Nick attend the party as Sideshow Bob, using a rented costume. The folks at the Bondi Junction costume shop said that "no one in Australia sells ready-made costumes," and we fell for it and rented the costume. It turns out that the costume shop people were a bit wrong, as the dollar store in Bondi Junction sold ready-made witches outfits. Not a great costume, mind you, but the dollar store is just about in sight of the costume shop ... no one expects to find things easily here so both us Americans and the Australians bought the line. At least the cheap costume worked out well for The German Friend, Thomas, who got a witches' hat, a cape and some glow-in-the-dark face paint. The glow-in-the-dark face paint didn't glow, but it was scary enough as it looked as if he had a thick layer of moisturizer on his face for the party.

posted by Peggy C. at 6:58 PM