A Very Austin Halloween

This morning I woke up in Austin. At 9:30am I went to class in San Jose. I feel like I stepped in a time machine. I also feel like the time machine might have beat me up in the process. This weekend was HALLOWEEN WEEKEND 2009! (Yeah!) and I will recap it here for you friends.

THURSDAY: Today in Grad school I rode around in a wheelchair! This was a fun little assignment that required me to ride around campus in a wheelchair as if I did not have use of half of my body and by half of my body I mean one arm and one leg. So that means, my friends, I could not just push the wheelchair with my little arms. I had to push the wheelchair with one little arm and one little leg. This became most clear when I was required to "climb" a ramp up into the OT building and found myself promptly spinning around on the decline. I was definitely not going anywhere. Eventually I figured out that I had to go up backwards and push with my leg. Lesson learned.

Good Job, Man!

After that fiasco team OT decided to go out, and away we went downtown with our huge backpacks and various rolling devices.

This device demonstrated here by Diana


Here we are enjoying life downtown. Notice downtown behind us.

Oh yes, also cupcakes were eaten.

They were delicious AND adorable!

When I got home from downtown I discovered my roommates locked away. They were in full costume.

Well of course they were!

Because it was pumpkin carving time!
And one must do that activity in costume!
And dance prior to and after said activity!

Here we are cutting little holes in large squash vegetables and declaring our delight as we pulled out their guts with our bare hands and sometimes spoons


There is mine on the end. craftily designed by Miss Bridget Ore, my pumpkin displays a family of 6 little mere cats.

After pumpkin gut extraction I hurriedly packed and slept a little to FLY TO AUSTIN!!

FRIDAY: On this day in age I traveled to the land of Texans to visit Mista' Nathan Peterson. We of course had to immediately visit this very Texan store right outside of the airport. Here is a sample of items sold here:

Buck heads
Rain shoes for horses
Slippers that made noises (on purpose)
Big, sharp metal traps
lassos
A large contraption for feeding deer
whips
suspenders
The Most Awesome Swing in the World

Sooooo Texas


Here, you are allowed to be picky about your lassos (and there were more!)

SATURDAY: Well, first off it was absolutely crucial that we create an eagle head. I had miserably failed prior in the week to perform such a task. So we went around to a couple craft stores and badda-bing badda-bam began to make ourselves an eagle head.

Here is Nate in the backyard hot gluing the living daylights out of a little fur hat we decided to demolish


Here is Nate patiently affixing wire hangers to the inside of my shark suit. Best boyfriend ever.



It totally paid off.

Check it:


Nate does a good job of being Jerrod.

Even when I try and provoke him.

After our costumes were completed, we decided to put out some candy for the trick or treaters. We weren't going to be home so we decided to go for the old throw-some-candy-in-a-laundry-basket-with-a-sign trick.

deeeeeelicious!

Here is the sign I made:


Eagle and Shark love

Once we set our our bait, I mean candy, out on the porch we went to the juggler's halloween party and hung out for a while. Eventually we decided to explore the madness of 6th street. Nate basically pulled me through a thick stew of drunk people dressed up from bananas (there were at least 6 people dressed as bananas. why/. I cannot tell you why) to slutty law enforcement.

Before we left Nate decided to consume some quality street food so we went to a little booth and purchased this thing:

It was covered in secret "Diabolo Sauce" which promptly burned Nate's mouth so badly that he couldn't speak for moments afterward. So we went home to dab it off with napkins and sleep some.

SUNDAY: On Sunday we were obligated to go play some pranks with Nate's new Bluetooth Fart app. Basically it allows one iDevice to be a digital whoopee cushion while the other one controls it remotely. To try it out we went to Barnes and Noble and hid a phone in one of the main displays at the head of the escalator. Every time an innocent passer byer walked by the display we would so discretely play a very loud and obnoxious fart sound. We sat a few feet away pretending to read books and giggling madly with glee. At one point we kept playing the sounds close by to a worker stocking the shelves. After about 5 minutes of mass confusion, she located the iPhone and was probably wondering why every time it rang it sounded like someone passing gas creatively.

We also went to Costco and rode some horses

Sadly it turned out they weren't real

That evening we went to The Most Interesting Show in the World to see Mark Faje. It involved mostly circus arts combined with about 6 scantily dressed girls that "helped" the acts in various ways and danced around a lot. But it was pretty cool and we got free VIP passes

We got to sit, the suckers behind us were forced to STAND. (hah!)


Here is Nate on stage helping to knock a stick of wood out of a volunteer's mouth with juggling clubs. Mark Faje is meanwhile fitting himself snugly into that little suitcase over there.

I am probably forgetting things but I will post the rest of the pictures on Facebook. I better go do some studying.




Yikes.