Finally got around to posting about our Halloween party we hosted on Friday.  This is the 6th time we’ve hosted the party, but first in the new digs.  Now we had 2 floors and the exterior of the house to decorate, which was a bit of a challenge.  Need to stockup on marked down Halloween decorations now for next year.  We were definitely lacking in outdoor decorations, but we’ll sort that out.

For the costume this year I came up with a couple’s costume idea for Corina and I.  Now it wasn’t quite your conventional couples costume idea, but it worked out quite well.  We went as Jay and Silent Bob, characters from numerous Kevin Smith movies.  I figured it was cool way of spinning the guy/girl costume concept.  The costumes themselves were actually some of the easiest we’ve ever come up with to put together, but got some of the best reactions from people this year.  The only downfall is that we didn’t actually get a picture together wearing the costumes.  I’m going to try remedying that tonight by getting dressed up again and taking a picture.  In the meantime he’s a badly Photoshopped version.

We definitely had a pretty good turnout of people to the party.  We tried to be considerate of those with kids who might need to find babysitters and have the party on the Friday, instead of trying to find someone on Halloween Saturday.  This kind of backfired as there were a few people who would usually be there that didn’t make it because they had to work Friday night.  Oh well, lesson learned on that one.

Our plan this year was to feature just general Halloween music on the main floor, then at the request of Corina, a 1990′s dance party in our basement.  We practically bought this house for parties like this and it worked out quite well.  We managed to pretty much fill the basement at one point in the night which was quite cool.

The best male costume this year was grabbed by Corina as Silent Bob.  She ended up being the runaway winner for that with a vote total dwarfing everyone else.  The girls prize was contested via a 3 way dance off, to which Ally came away as the big winner, with her Amy Winehouse costume. I put together an album of pictures below. You might notice one in there where a bunch of people are humping our neighbours inflatable Halloween decorations. Thanks to Ally, who I yoinked some of her photos from Facebook for this album.

Since we were hosting the party we decided to have our dog Chance spend the night at Corina’s parents place. He’s a bit of a runner when the door is open, so we didn’t want to be chasing him down the street when he escaped. This plan sounded really ideal until Corina picked him up the next day and found he had been sprayed by a skunk the night before. We gave him a bath in tomato juice, baking soda, peroxide and dish soap, which got rid of most of the smell, though I can still smell the faint scent of skunk in his fur. Not quite what I felt like dealing with given the industrial sized hangover I had at the time.

Halloween 2008
Halloween 2007
Halloween 2006
Halloween 2005