the party

This year was our first doing a Halloween party. We attempted to have one 7-8years ago, but our daughter came down with something and we canceled it.

The guests were mostly kids from her school and their parents, a few other kids, and a few other adults, like neighbors. It was a lot of preparation work with the decorating and the cooking, but everyone seemed to enjoy themselves, so it worked.


My costume was a lame coverall Star Wars thing, but she was Lady Gaga, which won third place in the costume contest at her school.


My wife was a vampire. She's wearing red contacts in this picture. It's not red eye from the flash. Part of the decorations was a (plastic) cauldron, but inside was a water-filled crock pot for dry ice. My main job for the evening was to keep the dry ice in it to keep the fog going.


Later at the dining-room table, she was serving up cheesecake, but had dispensed with the fangs by then. The bowls in front of her are bones and congealed blood for dipping them (meringue and pudding). To her left is bowl of eye of newt (punch-like with tapioca). In the foreground is half of the chilled brain.


Though my wife did all the cooking, one of my contributions to the food was the chilled brain, which was a watermelon with the rind shaved off and carved into convoluted shapes, more or less. To the right are spidered, boiled eggs.

I'm on door duty for the trick or treaters now while they are out in the neighborhood collecting treats/candy.