It was our 20th Annual Halloween Soiree last night. The rules are simple – You must come in costume. You cannot repeat yourself for five years (meaning you can’t trot out the same costume year after year). You must eat food you wouldn’t normally eat because they are just so totally horrible for you (like Jalapeno Poppers, Buffalo wings and chicken taquitos). Many bottles of wine and beer must be consumed.
I did my part.
There is always a costume competition. The categories this year were Scariest, Funniest, Best Couple/Group, Most Unrecognizable, Most Effort and a Grand Prize to the person that wins most votes overall. The competition is fierce and the costumes get more and more elaborate.
Most Effort went to my sister Kate who was a wedding cake. More specifically she was my nieces’ wedding cake. I give you the evidence:
We had glamorous costumes, The Devil Wears Prada (which took me a good 45 minutes to figure out – I kept telling my niece to put her purse down. Doh!), a pretty pirate, a sexy little umpire. I was a white witch which turned out more glamorous than the scary I was going for. More on that topic in a bit.
There were couple’s costumes; Raggedy Ann and Andy, Tia and Jack from Pirate’s of the Caribbean (Best Couple/Group winner), a Mexicali Pride gang and the border patrol group costume effort (won most overall votes).
Funniest went to my nephew who was dressed as the King of Halloween. He tends to win each year in the Grand Prize category because his costumes are so elaborate and so realistic. So last year when I sent the invites out I challenged everyone to knock him off his throne – so this year he came on his throne).
Most unrecognizable went to another nephew dressed as the border patrol. A costume he threw together in the 11th hour to go with his sisters and dad’s group theme.
I can’t remember who won scariest. Hmmm. Refer to paragraph above regarding the eating and drinking requirement.
We had a fallen angel, a race car driver, Zorro, a wizard or two, African royalty, a Ace of Spades, a goth (oh wait! I think my BIL won scariest for his goth costume). One of the funnier costumes was my cousin who dressed up as a bag of spinach with e-coli. It was the running joke of the night with a certain Ace of Spades stealing his e-coli and infecting other party goers with it.
We had an evil looking clown (is that self explanatory? are all clowns evil looking?), a Minnie Mouse, someone dressed in an absolutely gorgeous 1930’s kimono, a regular witch and like I said, me dressed as a white witch.
I have a white peignoir set I bought about 12 years ago and I’ve managed to use it as a costume four times now. I get past the no repeating yourself rule because each time I’m a different character. I’ve been an angel, The Ice Queen, bride of Frankenstein and now this year – a white witch. I’m running out of white ideas though.
Now it’s time to get geared up for Christmas.
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