The Halloween Parade

I realize it has been a while since I posted, but as will tend to be the case from now on, I'm going to post only when things are too good to let go.

So, Saturday night rolled around, and Marie and I appeared to be pretty content not to do much. We'd had a bunch of plans at different points, but all of them had either not formed or had fallen through. Worse yet, after looking through a bunch of thrift stores for M*A*S*H* related costumes, we had come up empty, and didn't really have anything to wear. At about 8:00pm, we got a call from Amy, who was in Marie's grad program, saying that, if we wanted to, we could get dressed and go to TOWN with a whole group of people. This set off 40 minutes of Marie and I frantically looking for something to wear. I very quickly found my freshman year soccer jersey, and was set to go. Marie, after looking around for a while, took my drunken advice from the previous night (though the costume was originally meant for me) and went as a sexy cow.

We met up with the rest of the group, and after some getting ready and a few beers, we walked out into a drizzle. Our parade included: A drag Dorothy (with S&M Toto), a Tin Man (complete with paint), a Scarecrow, two Swine Flu pigs (H1 and N1), a chef, another soccer player (with ref), an Amish woman, a punk, Jackie O'Lantern (if JFK had married a pumpkin...), with Marie and I bringing up the rear. We had to walk about half a mile down U Street in order to get to the club (U Street is the bar district). Needless to say, we were VERY popular, with people shout-outing/catcalling nearly all of us at one point or another.

While the club was fun and crazy (I still believe our Dorothy got screwed in the costume contest), the other truly-noteworthy moment came after we got back home. Marie hadn't eaten, so we stopped in for some Chinese near our apartment. Right after we came in, Batman and a bee entered and took the table across from us. While this wouldn't normally be noteworthy, the look on the faces of the staff (especially when Batman didn't take his mask fully off, even through dinner) was priceless. Halloween, where costumed eating happens...

May all your hits be crits,
B