Halloween!

I. absolutely. love. Halloween.  I mean, like really love it!  Like, I potentially love it more than New Kids on the Block (gasp! I can't believe I even typed that last sentence).

Because I was working on both the Saturday before (post-show blurry picture with Dan Currie and Dwayne Gill below) and on Halloween itself, I only got one opportunity to dress up.

So, there were no wild and crazy parties, and the overly-sexy costumes were to a minimum.  P.S. Overly-sexy Halloween costumes = way out of hand.  Sexy Freddy Krueger?  Really? Yeah, because when I think sexy, I think of a pedophile with a messed up, burned face.

Anyway, I digress...

My mom invited me to celebrate her birthday by attending the Washtenaw Community Concert Band's annual Halloween concert.  Not only was it an opportunity to eat tons of make her a chocolate cake, but the major selling point was we got to dress up!

I was Bee Arthur.  Ba-Dum-Bum-TSH!

My mom went as a fortune teller.  Sadly, her prop tarot cards weren't able to tell me if I'm going to actually survive law school.

The band was really impressive, and they played songs from Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, and even did a piece set to "The Raven."  And that chocolate cake wasn't too shabby either, if I do say so myself.





On actual Halloween, I headed up to Northern Michigan to work at the Turtle Creek Casino.  I got to share the stage with the super hilarious Dave Waite...and an alien.  It was the first time I've ever followed an extraterrestrial.  Katy Perry would have been envious.

This is the hotel where I stayed (I got the jacuzzi suite...holla!):

And they had all of these awesome pumpkins in the lobby.

And now, for the 50% off candy sale...