Halloweenies

Quite a bit has happened since our last posting, but most of it was pretty boring and mundane and of the "we went to work today" variety, so I'll just concentrate on the fun and exciting highlights such as:

London 2006: Revenge of the Teeth

We recently took another trip to London. Overall it was a pretty nice time: we did a little shopping, ate at some fun restaurants, Melissa had four wisdom teeth carved out of her skull... basic vacation stuff.

I'm happy to report that Melissa is recovering well after her surgery. She had a couple of very difficult extractions that made her recovery time a bit more prolonged than it would have been had she had "normal" extractions, but she's been back to a fairly normal diet for about week now.

Unfortunately, due to the surgical nature of our visit, we didn't see much of London. I would occasionally go out and walk around our neighborhood a bit, but I invariably would forget to take my camera on these excursions. Hence, the only picture we have from our most recent trip to London is the view from the corner window of our hotel room¹.

Halloween

Allhallows Eve, November Eve, Feast of Souls, Feast of the Dead, Candy Night, Sugar-O-Rama! As a costumer, this is more or less the event of the year for Melissa. For me, it's pretty much just another day to dress up as a Jedi in public.

This post would ramble on much longer than normal if I tried to include even a fraction of our pictures from the two Halloween events we attended this year, so I'm just hitting the lowlights. For more October 31^st related pictures and words, click on over to Melissa's Costume Site.

Melissa as Marie Antoinette. This costume won her the award for Best Adult Costume at the kids' Halloween party. For that she got to bring home absolutely nothing. I told her we should just choose our own prize and steal a kid, but apparently Poland's kipnapping laws are pretty harsh. Besides, children tend to smell. Especially the easily concealabe ones.

Me as a Jedi. I really wasn't trying to be any particular Jedi, but everyone called me "Obi" anyway. I guess that makes me Obi-wan as a padawan since I have no beard. And knowing that makes me an incredibly huge geek.

I should also mention that Melissa was upset with me for wearing a white t-shirt underneath my tunic. I think she's worried that it ruins some of the effect of the costume. For that reason I must do the following:

::Jedi mind trick:: You don't see a white t-shirt showing in this picture. The neck of my Jedi tunic comes to a perfect V in the middle.

Melissa and I posing with Nadia in the costume Melissa made for her. We had to coax her out of her winter coat to get this picture.

David (a different one) posing with Melissa in his "Costume by Melissa." David and I went as a pair this year for Halloween. I was the young padawan and he was the geriatric master. I don't recall how the wig got on his head, but I think he looks quite fetching in it. Perhaps I'll have to borrow it the next time I break out my Jedi outfit³.

-Dave

¹This is not technically true. We also had some pictures of the teeth they excised from Melissa, but she's being a fuddy duddy and insists that no one wants to see that². Personally, I was fascinated by them. Clearly my oral surgeon was holding out on me when I had my wisdom teeth pulled.

²She also wouldn't allow me to leave the clear plastic envelope, in which we received the teeth, in a prominent location for hotel housekeeping to find.

³Tomorrow.