Halloween Masquerade

I have just returned from downtown, having sorted out some problems with my new cell phone, and have discovered a distressing fact. Despite my trying on size 2 trousers in Old Navy, they are still too big. The next size down? A size zero. Yes, I am officially able to fit into trousers that don't exist, and I am a person worth nothing. Waaahhh!! I'm not sure how this happened, since I have an arse and some hips, which generally size 0 trousers don't cater for, but I think it's just Old Navy being weird. I bought trousers elsewhere and they were a size 4, so I can feel better about that.

However, to cheer me up on the way home, I drove past a doctored sign that used to tell residents about the risk of fires starting here. There are so many wooded and built up areas that when the weather is hot, the risk of fires starting is communicated to people via these boards; there are four options (low risk, moderate, high, extreme) and an arrow is moved along to point to the relevant risk level. However, some cunning person has made their own and stuck it at the side of the road. It now reads "Risk of Alien Invasion" and when I drove past the arrow was pointing to "Extreme........"

So now I will move onto the Halloween Masquerade which I went to on Monday. The first prize for the best costume was an obscene $10,000 - so as you can no doubt infer, people went all out to win this. For my part I merely donned some left-over police stuff from Saturday night when we had our house party, and spent the rest of the night being amazed at what people had come up with. Here are a selection of the best ones, though sadly Z95 (radio station sponsoring the night) didn't take pictures of the most funky ones. Although they did get me in one, so that is below.

First prize winner of $10,000: Family Guy serial killer pile of bodies.

Me in police uniform, Sunshine's friends Bill and Audrey in Viking garb, Sunshine as Superwoman (of course).

The guy who looked and acted SO much like Johnny Depp from Pirates of the Carribbean that I really wouldn't have been suprised if it had turned out to be him. Seriously.

May I introduce Death?
Britney Spears and Ashlee Simpson dolls, in original packaging.

The Incredible Hulk, of course.
Sadly, those are the only pictures of the main players on the website at the moment, although I am hoping that Sunshine's pictures turn out to be good. The costumes that didn't get captured and which I thought were worth a mention are as follows: the devil, a transformer who could actually transform into a car (my vote for the winner), a Decepticon, an I-Pod, a mermaid on a rock and the fisherman who caught her, a girl dressed as a blow-up doll, the Pilsbury dough boy, a monkey climbing a palm, a 7 foot rooster, the Mountain Dew spies, Beaker from Sesame Street, a guy carrying himself around in a cardboard box (you had to see it to understand it), a hammer, Elijah Wood's character from Sin City, a Jaigermeister bottle, a gumball machine, a plug and socket combo, a man made up entirely of glow sticks, and the cookie monster off Sesame Street. I love this country........