Halloween 2002

So, it was actually Friday after the Thursday Halloween and we astro-geeks, being astro-geeky, decided to get together to have a party. Alas, I don't have a very good store of costume-type things, so I just had to go with a hippy :( It was quite mundane really, but ah well.
We congregated at Subasavage and Alvin's house (along with some other non-astro-geeks). Lots of drinking and lots of music... Ginny and I brought a pumpkin which I gutted :) and Ginny carved. We also brought Ellyn :)

Here are some pictures - I have a snake in a few of them ;) Oh, I did not take these, they are the host's. I like his comments.

I didn't take these pictures either - thanks Raj and Ginny!

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From the left: hiding in the back, Sanon, then "Count" Alvin, our host, John Subasavage, friend of his, Travis, and me.
Mind you, it was much darker in there than these pictures convey. Most of the lighting was that Bud sign.

The ladies

On the far left, that's Misty, our nun with a ruler - if you don't know her, you don't quite know how incongruous this is.
Then we have Hippy me, Military Ginny (her dad's uniform) and Ellyn looking quite nice.

Here is a way funky picture of the four of us again. I don't know what went wrong (I think it was the processing somehow), but I think it's kinda neat...

The snake - Ziggy

I actually like snakes - they feel neat and they are pretty unobtrusive and I just like them.
Subasavage owns a snake and he got to come out for the party. First, Misty the Nun had him. Then we made the transfer ->

Then I had Ziggy for quite a long time.
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Then he got restless. He decided to go for my head - he went up the back of my skull, got under my handkerchief and then came out the front!!
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INVASION!!!

At one point, the house was invaded by a strange being with a Nerf dart gun in hand.
He requested that we raise our hands in the air and once that was done, proceeded to shoot us anyways...
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Turns out, it was just Professor Todd, dressed up like Marvin, his favorite Martian. Observe the helmet - it's trash can lids!!
Don't you wish you had a professor like this? :)