Halloween Part Deux

Wow what a weekend!  From a brilliant Made in China concert to a very soggy race to Bert and Ernie stealing the show - no wonder I am ready for the next weekend already!

Friday - Sylvia's Birthday Jam Party

Rosie the Riveter visited Sylvia's Birthday Jam Party where Made in China were playing.  The vocal stylings of Mario Rea were incredible!  Who knew that with that rockstar hair came a rockstar voice?!  Kris where have you been hiding this talent?!  Made in China were excellent!  This modern Partridge family band are definitely ones to watch!  The mad bass moves of Karen Parusel and the brass rockings of Kristina Parusel were out of this world!  (Pher, Sandy and Guy were pretty good too ;-)).

Lead Trumpet Player - Kristina Parusel - You Go Girl!

There were some pretty cool costumes out that evening including Ed in a feather mask

Ed in a feather mask

Hansee and John as the farmer's daughter and...Hitler??

The Farmer's Daughter and...Hitler??

I wish I got a picture of Harmony's outfit - she was a puck bunny in a Calgary jersey...

Karen and Franklin the Rat

The rat still freaks me out in this picture

A couple of crazy pirates...arr

Saturday - Moving Day
I helped a couple of friends move on Saturday to a really great location...only got a couple of bruises but it was worth it.  We are now rid of the ghosts just in time for Halloween!

Sunday - Race Day!
Thanks to Sara I committed to running the James Cunningham Seawall race.  Sara and Paul came fully decked out in costume!  What good sports (I ditched the costume for waterproof running gear and it seems so did Dawn).  Jackie and Gail also ran the race.  My official time was 1:02:10.67 a personal best for a 9.5k race.  My last 10km race was 1:04:40 so I would have been almost  minute faster!

Springs!

Awe!  Running Millers in Costume

Monday - Halloween Day
I went decked out in costume to work.  Even though I barely left my desk I still got a few comments.  What do you think of my costume?

Tara as Rosie the Riveter

So believe it or not many people do not know who Rosie the Riveter is or who she stands for, including my boss, so I had to do some education with the costume but it was worth it.  I decided to dress as Rosie the Riveter in honour of my grandmother who was a riveter during the 2nd World War.

I took Bert and Ernie over to my friends and people actually stood outside their apartment and took pictures of them!

I love halloween and I can't wait until next year.  The only thing that was missing was the usual pyromaniac semantics of the Thomson clan :-)