Last night Corina and I threw our annual Halloween party, which resumed after taking a year off last year amidst the wedding, honeymoon and moving chaos that occurred last October. Every year we try to go bigger and better and I think we achieved that this year. We’re on the verge of being labeled those crazy Halloween people, but that’s alright by me. Our horde of Halloween decorations is actually starting to rival our Christmas decorations. This year we turned our back patio in a spooky graveyard, which worked out pretty well even though the smoke machine I bought really didn’t work that properly outside. It just kept blowing away 2 minutes after the machine pumped it out.
This year I went as everyone’s favourite comedic daredevil, Super Dave Osborne. My costume was comprised pretty much of a painters jumpsuit, a bunch of electrical and duct tape and some gold stars. I searched out getting an old motorcycle helmet through Kijiji, painted and taped it the appropriate manner. Corina’s mom constructed some pockets and fashioned a collar out of the jumpsuits hood. I even attempted to make an SD truckers hat which didn’t really turn out very well. I thought the costume as a whole worked out alright, if a little sloppy in some regards. I heard toward the end of the night that apparently people thought I had actually bought the costume, which I guess tells me I did something right.
Every year we have a prize for the best male and best female costumes, but this year we decided to mix it up by adding a pumpkin carving contest and Halloween trivia component. My buddy Dan was able to supply some corporate sponsorship from Remington, enabling us to give out mens and ladies electric shavers as the best costume prizes, which was really awesome. Nick won for best male costume for his Riddler outfit. He’s about the only person I know who is thin and wiry enough to pull it off. For the female award we had our first tie, which in true Halloween Spooktacular tradition, results in a dance off. The 2 females who were tied for best costume really weren’t the extroverted types, so we allowed them to choose a designated dancer to participate on their behalf. Dennis and Carmen battled it out, with Dennis coming out the victor on behalf of Laura who had dressed as Harley Quinn.
The best pumpkin award ended up being awarded to “Swissy”, who had just arrived the night before from Switzerland and was dressed as a pumpkin. Sure it was a little sketchy allowing a human entry into the pumpkin competition, but what’s one of our parties without large amounts of controversy? In reality we all know Chad’s The Dark Knight pumpkin was the best entry, but Swiss was so excited by his prize, an Alexander Mogilny bobblehead.
Today we did all the cleanup and dispatched of the pumpkins. Corina’s Dad had me load up the tractor loader with all the pumpkins, take them up to the compost pile and smash them all up. He then had me hook up the rototiller and till the compost pile. There was just something so satisfying about crushing pumpkins with a big tractor. So what was a bunch of nicely carved pumpkins last night is now a pile of compost. It was a pretty amusing experience. You can see all the photos in the album slideshow above.
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