Halloween

Halloween was a long day for me.
The night before, I stayed up really late with my dad and Eric. We were making shirts for Lora's birthday, which is on Halloween. Eric was silk-screening stuff, and I had some iron on Twilight designs that I had made. I didn't go to bed until 2, but I figured it was good preparation for Halloween night.

In the morning, I got up and started work on Lora's cake. Eric had asked me to make a cake with the Incredibles symbol because of their costumes. (* Thank you, Karen, for letting me use your nice cake stuff- it helped a lot).

Mom and I cleaned the house to get it ready for people. I was so excited, the day seemed to go by too slow. I couldn't wait to start working on my hair, which would be the biggest part of my costume.

Finally, my friends arrived to get ready.
Eric, Lora, my friends Kristine, Brittany, Tim, Cynthia, and I went to the Halloween Boat Dance. It was put on by YSA wards from all over San Diego.
Eric and Lora went as Mr. and Mrs. Incredible.
My friends and I went as characters from the Wizard of Oz.
I was, of course, the Lion.
Tim was the Tin Man.
Kristine was Dorothy.
Cynthia was the Wicked Witch (or Elphaba- if you are a Wicked fan)
and Brittany was the Good Witch (of Glinda)

Our scarecrow didn't have money to buy a ticket, so he couldn't come.
And we were going to have the wizard, but he never showed up and wouldn't answer his phone.

It would have been awesome if we had had them with us.

It was an 'Incredibly Wicked' night.

It began with lots of work on my hair to make my mane. We watched Nightmare before Christmas while Kristine ratted and teased my hair and everyone else got makeup on.

Eric and Lora eventually appeared in costume(minus a few finishing touches, like face paint)

After lots of rushing and pictures, we were out the door by 10:20 and we piled into the suburban.
Lora opened my present, but she didn't know about the cake, it was still at home, waiting for her brother to get it and smuggle it on to the boat.

We finally parked at the docks and walked down to the boat, where there was a large crowd of Mormons all dressed up.

The first person that we saw, who we knew, was our cousin David Sensenbaugh. And to our great astonishment (our jaws literally dropped) David was also dressed as Mr. Incredible!!

I sought out my friends from Institute in the crowd and they all screamed and wondered over my hair (it really was incredible huge and poofy). I heard lots of 'wow's and 'awesome hair's as I walked through the crowd. Many people asked me if it was real.

Very shortly, we loaded onto the boat, which had three levels. The top and bottom both had dance floors, and the middle was quieter with food and kareoke. The top dance floor was always packed. Me and my friends rarely went up there simply because we couldn't. But we had a blast on the bottom floor and out on the front deck where the breeze was nice and cool, and we could talk.

We all stood out on the deck and cheered as we passed under the coronado bridge. It's not something you get to do very often, especially at 1 in the morning.

Lora and Eric would find us every once and a while, usually to take pictures.

After what seemed a very short time, the boat was pulling back into port. We were tired, yes, but we certainly were not done having fun.

On the walk back to the car, we took fun pictures with the sculptures that line the docks. We thought about going to Denny's but we weren't really hungry, so we didn't want to waste money.

At home, we watched the Incredibles and fell asleep to Hocus Pocus. Some time near the end of Hocus Pocus, (i think it was 4:30) Cynthia got a call that she had to go home, so we cleaned up and said our good byes.
After my friends left, I did a little more cleaning up just so my mom wouldn't freak out, but there was still plenty to do in the morning.

I woke up earlier than I thought I would and cleaned up more of the mess. Then I began the inevitable washing of my hair. Though I was looking forward to having my hair back to normal, I was not looking forward to the rigorous brushing that it would take to get out all the hairspray and knots that made it as tall as it was.

My shower was an hour long- 45 minutes of conditioning and brushing. My head hurt after that.
The whole day was really weird for me. In the morning, whenever someone talked to me, especially on the phone, I could feel my brain working too slowly. My body would not respond as quickly when I wanted to move or walk. After a while, I laid down in bed and fell asleep for a few hours. I woke up more refreshed, but the day was mostly gone. Dad was already asking me if I wanted to go out to dinner.

Apparently I partied harder than I thought if I needed that much recuperation.
But it was so worth it. It was one of the best nights I have had in a long time, and I can't wait till next year.

Here are some other pictures from the night.