Last year we had such a great time at Freaker's Ball we were going to go again. This time Celeste wanted to have group costumes, specifically from the Rocky Horror Picture Show. She wanted to win the costume contest this year. About six months ago Celeste planned it all out. She assigned roles and people had to choose which character they wanted to be. She said I would be fit for Eddy, the role played by Meatloaf. I said sure, let's do it. Of course we all procrastinated. Some people who said they would do it couldn't because of work, personal reasons or they lived too far away and couldn't make it. I didn't start getting ready until basically the night before. After work on Friday i went to the Goodwill and found everything I needed, except for the wig, the shoes and the jewelry...those I got at Walmart. A few weeks back I got a scrape makeup for my character's gash on his head. I was now prepared for Saturday.
We all arrived at Celeste's house around 6, ate pizza and started putting our costumes on. Mine didn't take that long except for the gash, it had to be glued on with some foundation on it to blend it in. Our costumes looked good. Of course the picture would have been more awesome if we had all the characters.
We took a dozen more pictures and Jim loaded us up in the car. He volunteered to drop us all off at the Lake Lawrence Lodge because of the storm that rolled in. Lots of wind and rain. We went in and gave them our tickets with our first and last name on it (for prizes later on) and went and grabbed a table. Since I had to work the next day I only brought two beers for the night. The rest of them brought some gluten free apple ale, Fireball and other liquor. We walked around and looked at the random costumes we were all up against. We took a picture with some bacon and ate some of the food. We did some dancing and even took shots from the 3 Musketeer dildos, haha.
None of us won the raffle prizes but we did get third place in the group costume contest with a prize package of $25. It wasn't as crazy as it was last year and it started to die down way before 11 p.m. We ended up calling it a night around 11:30. We had to walk home and thanked the storm Gods that it wasn't raining. We all spent some time in the hot tub, took showers and made nachos before we all went to bed. That was about 2 a.m. I knew I would regret staying up that late when I went to work the next day.
October 29
Ben and I wanted to go do something Halloweenie together since he couldn't do Freaker's Ball or dress up on Halloween and go trick or treating with me. That next Wednesday we drove out to a haunted house in Bucoda. The guy who owned Scary-Nights, has been doing it since 1995 and established himself up by Lake Stevens. That property fell through and he had an opportunity to get the property in Bucoda with help from the town. We parked in the designated parking area and walked to the old building. There used to be a cache behind it but it was archived before I could find it. We paid our money, we got two dollars off because we went to Rutledge a few weeks back and talked to the guy who was at the booth. He got very interested because Ben is a part of the haunted house industry.
We went through the haunted house and this one had many different rooms and I was startled a few times. Other than that, it was a typical haunted house. I know they aren't going to touch me so there really wasn't any reason to freak out. They took our picture at the end and we got to meet the owner, who gave us a private tour.
We went home afterwards and watched a movie before Ben had to be back at the station. I hope we get to spend more time together next Halloween.
October 31
Trick or treating to me is more than just the candy. It's a tradition of mine, regardless of age, to dress up and go trick or treating at my grandparent's houses. A few years ago I started going to my great aunt and uncles to go visit and take some pics. I usually would go to Grandma Karen's house next followed by Grammie and Grandpa's last. This year I dressed up as my sister Erika, who is is the US Army. I went to the Goodwill and gathered the necessary camo gear. I had her name patches and all I needed was shoes, a hat and the other patch that said US Army. I ran out of time for those but I managed.
It was a fun Halloween this year but it would have been more fun to hang out with Ben. Until next year!
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