Halloween 2004

Halloween was a long celebrated holiday this year. It started at work with decorating our work areas. Our group pick a theme of "Pirates of the Caribbean", I thought we did a kick ass job, but I guess the judges thought otherwise. We had a big pirate ship with 3 masts and yo-ho music, and skeletons. I think we were robbed.

Friday night we went to a house party in Goleta, it was a a nice production. It was a "Matt" party as half of Santa Barbara knew it as. They decorated the whole house in black plastic, and had the music visualizations projected on to the dance floor. It was quite impressive, and I think about 97% of people were dressed in costume.

Saturday we attempted to get some pumpkins to carve in true Halloween tradition, but after going to 3 different markets only to find that they were all sold out :) But when we were at our last stop we decided to get some small gourds to carve. I think they came out very cool! Maybe even better then the traditional pumpkin.

[ colleen (top), aaron, missy ( bottom respectively) ]

Sunday actually Halloween day we were pretty tired for the past two nights celebration that we got some Chinese take-out and passed out candy to the neighborhood kids. We underestimated on our two bags of candy, and almost ran out, so I made a quick run to Vons. They were all sold out! So I grabbed some lunch stuff like mini bags of chips, and cookies. In the end I think we had about 5 goodies left. Phew! No disappointed kids.