How Rach Ruined Halloween (and then quickly salvaged it)

The Tights. So for those of you unawares to the seriousness that our family (including aunties, uncles, cousins, siblings, etc.) we take it VERY serious. When girls use halloween as an excuse to dress up in slutty costumes and prance around and feel like it's an "excuse" - that is what is wrong with halloween today. rach and i pick out costumes MONTHS in advance. currently we have 362 days left until next halloween and are constantly keeping our eyes peeled for new costumes. we even send halloween costumes in september when they start being sold in stores. we tailor make our costumes, hand sewn, and have a round table discussion to decide what costumes we will have this year... so travelling over halloween posed a problem. But then Rach, while in stockholm, finds somethign that almost ruined halloween - THE TIGHTS. the tights that have BONES on them. so rachel decides that is the perfect work around for halloween - that we can build a perfect costume around tights. about 4 days later, i give in and we go pick up the tights (because God forbid we reuse a costume we have in years past...)

The Shirts. We were going to top it off with a long black shirt of some kind and draw bones on them. keep in mind we were not being skeletons. if someone asked if we were skeletons, we had already practiced giving them a face and go "uh, no, we're BONES". so Team Bones, as we now called ourselves, went shopping for shirts, but came back without finding any white paint. so on halloween, we have tights, black shirts, and a goofy flag that seemed like a good idea at the time.

We were what was wrong with Halloween. So on Halloween, we find out no one dresses up, we didn't have the proper materials to create the Bones top, so we reluctantly try the costumes out. ummmmmm...okay rach, you ruined it. We looked like cheap tricks dressed up with short tshirts and see through tights, which i'm convinced anyway that were made for kids because when you pulled them on, the bones didn't even match up where our real bones where - my knee bone on the tight ended up mid-thigh. our feet bones started at our ankles, and i was still sour that we could find shorts to deem our shirts appropriate. But that clinched it - rachel said it first, and she says - how will we face the family? how will i email pictures of halloween to auntie bobbi jo wearing this??? WE MUST HAVE LITTLE HALLLOWEEN.

Little Halloween. Pictures soon to follow, but we salvaged Halloween by following up with an encore presenation of Halloween 2007. We got the white paint (talk about rachel and ju on a mission), found a skeleton to make our Bones costumes (i told rach to call me J-Bones to get in the mood, and she also drew a J-Bones tattoo on my arm complete with skull and crossbones. i actually didn't know she drew it but whatever) We got out the dansk, started dansking it early, bought pumpkin candles and pumpkin streamers, and celebrated all night. the cosutmes looked great (thanks to my free *ahem* hand painting of BONES on the shirts) and we took multiple pictures to send home. we stayed in, dansk got the best of us, and spent the night singing disney songs (i espeically loved the rendition of "Prince Ali" by rach that went something along the lines of "Prince A-Rach, Fabulous Rach, Rachie A-Rach Rach, strong as ten, regular men, definately...."

Video and pictures soon to follow.