NO, I'm not the Statue of Liberty!!!!

Saturday, October 30

Halloween 2010 we competed in the DC Challenge Haunted History Scavenger Hunt, well sort of...  This was the same day as the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Rally, which caused a mass influx of people resulting in jammed cell phone signals.  Translation we had no Internet access on our iPhones.  So we had difficulty figuring out the clues, plus we had no real game plan, and the clues were spread all over the city (see map for clue locations). 

I mean really, would you know who the 24th president is or where he died?  It was tough, so we basically figured out all the clues, and then decided it was way to spread out and we didn't have a map, so we went to two of the spots, then we got cold and decided to go back to the bar and hang out.  So we gave up!...

It was an immensely fun outing, on our way there the streets were packed with people and we were the only ones dressed up at 4:00 in the afternoon.  But at least 10 people stopped us to take our picture because they enjoyed our costumes, so that was nice, except when we were in a hurry.



So I spent weeks fervently trying to come up with a good, ORIGINAL, group costume Idea.  I thought I/We came up with some pretty good ideas...

California Raisins

TMNT (way overdone, but still would have been fun)

Pacman + ghosts (there were 3 of these at the party)

Mythical creatures (cyclops, sphinx, Cerberus, etc)

It's hard to come up with a good costume to fit your exact group, we had 3 girls and 1 guy (who was very picky)

Then I started actually coming up with some good ideas, and the finalists were:

National Cathedral Gargoyles

(still would have been super fun, but definitely would have had to explain that one)

Medusa and Statues

Well, it's clear which idea won...

The most unfortunate part of our costume choice was that we didn't take into account the stupidity of the general population.  This is how the conversation went...

Person: "Oh, cool, you're Medusa, and you're a statue"

Us: "yes..."

Person: I don't get it

Us:  You know who Medusa is?

Person: Yes, she's the lady with snakes for hair, don't look in her eyes...

Us: What happens if you look in her eyes?

Person: You turn to stone...

5

4

3

2

1

Person: Oh!  I get it!

Wow!  Took you long enough!!!

 Our second mistake was giving our team a witty name, Snakes and Stones was our team name... So when it came time to vote for the costume contest, no one knew who we were...

We ended up winning 5th place in the costume contest behind the following:

1st: Super huge homemade Mr. and Mrs. Pacman

2nd: Wine entourage (they had two people who were barrels, two bunches of grapes, a corkscrew, cheese, etc, very good execution)

3rd: Double Dare Contestants (Red and Blue teams)

4th: The Fallopian Swim Team (ya know sperm)

 

We won $50 but we thought we deserved at least 4th place...

So, as soon as they gave us our cash we hopped in a cab to go to Lauren's Party where we finished the evening.  Great party Lauren!

The WORST part about this entire process, wasn't even the mess in the bathroom.  It took us a full 2-2.5 hours to get ready, which is not too bad, but we were in a super hurry.  But Sunday morning it took me 4 hours to get all the liquid latex off.  It was super painful.  Have you ever been waxed anywhere?  Well it was like getting a full body wax, PAINFUL!  My husband was very kind to help me get if off (he took his off the night before after several drinks...smart), however I do think he enjoyed it a little too much.  Needless to say, if you ever get the urge to use liquid latex, it definitely has a place, but call me so I can give you some advice first.

I hope you all had as much fun on your Halloween adventures as we did!

P.S. Happy Birthday to my dear friend Melissa!  I miss you like crazy!