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sixth street gives new meaning to the phrase “trick or treat”

with all of this election excitement (!!!!), i totally forgot to post about halloween!

granted, it wasn’t as amazing as electing our first african american president BUT it did have its moments. especially, um, when we got to sixth street.

to match his condo and new “rich” lifestyle, henri dressed up as tony stark. naturally.

and, equalling him in richness and totally surpassing him in high school scheming-ness, i dressed up like serena vanderwoodsen. you know you love me!

i know, i know, my legs should’ve been longer. and don’t tell blair, but i was wearing clothes from forever 21 (BLASPHEMY!). but i really did try for the big hair!

this year, we had the added bonus of houston visitors, ray and juliet! ray chose to give me the heebie jeebies all evening by wearing this mask:

I KNOW!!!!!

totally-insane-abused-as-a-child-serial-killer mask, only available at the port lavaca wal-mart!

he bought the “male” version for juliet, but fortunately she had the good sense to flee from its general vicinity. i did, however, ask her to put it on for documentation purposes:

ahh, just two crazy kids in love!

we started the night with dinner at parkside, where all of the waitstaff were in costume! our waitress, skyler, was not only in costume (as a nerd) but also in full on CHARACTER.

note the shirt coming out of her fly. nice touch!

she insisted on wearing her glasses even though she could barely see anything and gave us a thumbs up every four minutes or so. truly, her intense commitment to character was on par with daniel day lewis.

“I DRINK YR MARTINI!!!”

thankfully, ray actually took off his mask in order to eat, since it’s hard to suck mac ‘n’ cheese through a straw (although i wouldn’t say no if offered).

after dinner, we went up to the balcony to watch the colorful, massive crowd on sixth street.

i mean, sixth street is normally pretty crazy on the weekends, but on halloween, it becomes a total circus… but instead of elephants, there’s girls in “sexy” costumes! and instead of peanuts, there’s jager bombs!

henri decided it was time for tony stark to morph into iron man, so he changed in the bathroom. and then he and ray did what all “grown men” do when they’re wearing masks: fake make out with each other.

i love that ray’s plastic lips are about an inch ahead of the real ones.

we briefly checked out a party on the edge of the east side, which turned out to be lame EXCEPT for the moment when ray found his people!!! it was totally just like when the ugly duckling sees the swans and realizes that he’s not so ugly after all!

except, you know, creepier.

back on sixth street, we quickly realized that henri was apparently the only person downtown dressed as iron man (surprising, i know), which immediately lent him celebrity status. and by that i mean, everyone wanted to take a picture with him! especially the kids!

you might be asking, “wait a second. there were kids? on sixth street? in the middle of the night? hanging out with drunken, half-naked crazy people?”

trust me, kids LOVE it!!! i mean, just look at this happy little boy, palling around with his favorite superheroes!

and check these little supertykes, chilling’ with their mom, freddy krueger! what nightmares?!!

“shiver me pampers!!!”

and my favorite, lil joker!

you know he probably got a LOT of shots for wearing that costume. or maybe flaming dr. peppers. kids go crazy for those!

basically, people treat sixth street like a giant halloween parade, and everyone just stands around and takes pictures with total strangers.

having eaten our treats at parkside, it was time for a few tricks. we decided to capitalize on the massive amounts of photography and henri’s “iron man” fame by playing a little game called: “let’s grab random people and take pictures with ray lurking in the background!”

the girl on the right was a “sexy ghostbuster,” by the way. i think this was the “sexy” costume of 2008, cos we ended up seeing several. venkman would be proud.

oh man, you guys, this game turned out to be AWESOME!!! and no one turned us down! henri was literally grabbing people and hauling them into pictures. but really, could you say “no” to that handsome, yellow plastic face of iron man?

i don’t know what this guy was supposed to be, but he had a glow stick in his pants. which i cut off with the camera because, um, no.

look! it’s dredd pirate roberts!

and SLASH! YESS!!!!! GUITAR SOLO!

and edward scissorhands! totally over-creeped by ray!

this duo was probably my favorite: big trouble in little china! as evidenced by his dramatic pose, ray was impressed as well.

i love this picture, cos the blur of ray in the backround really does freak me out. plus, this was the only guy who asked to *see* the picture, so it was good that ray passed as a “bystander.” otherwise: superhero showdown!

my other favorite costume of the night: labyrinth!!!!! and henri’s actual face!!

and of course, the requisite girls in matching “sexy” costumes.

uh, ray, what are you doing back there?

this guy wasn’t even in a costume! INSANITY!!!

i’ll leave you with this final picture, which will probably remain burned into yr brain until the end of time.

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES, SIXTH STREET!

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