This past weekend, David, Stephanie and I went to Chapel Hill to visit Elisabeth (from camp!). We did lots of walking back and forth between cars (because of strict parking rules), hung out at her characteristically-high-ceilinged dorm room, played bananagrams and had dinner at a conveyer belt sushi place all before changing into our costumes. Elisabeth was a Jedi Knight (probably a young obi one), Stephanie was a sultry devil and David was one of those endangered, yet plump bumblebees. As his girlfriend, I played his flower counterpart by wearing a flower-printed dress and stapling flowers that I cut out of an old Georgia O'Keeffe calendar to a green cardigan. All of this was topped off with a flower smack dab in the middle of my head:
Then we walked Franklin Street...
What I DID NOT know was that Franklin Street is basically a giant party in the road. Plus lots of drunken girls in small animal costumes and boys wearing anything from pizza boxes to Elvis garb.
I'm exaggerating, of course, but maybe only a little. Here are some of the highlights from the night:
Fun for all the ages!
Everyone wants in on the picture!
I am proud to say that I got the cone reference.
These are my friends!
This guy was cool. He asked me where I was from because he said it was what he asked when people said to him, "Can I take your picture?"
I saw the balloon kid at the very beginning but he got away before I could take a picture. Luckily, I was OBSESSED with finding him and snapped a shot of him on his way out.
Believe it or not, he was not the only peacock on Franklin Street that night. And I thought it a pretty original costume.
This guy had a dance-off with himself.
Swim team? or Triathletes stuck in the swimming portion of a triathlon?
Octo-mom! And Franklin Street isn't just for college kids anymore...
"Oh my gawd! A Big reference? It isn't every day that you get a Big reference!!" --really drunk guy who saw the Tom Hanks classic
First costume I saw that night, and the reason I love group costumes
Oh, and this is what I meant by pizza box earlier.
After all of this craziness and more, we went back to Elisabeth's friend's apartment and watched creative people build halloween cakes for $10,000 in prize money. We would have gone home after that, but with the extra hour from daylight savings, we decided to watch Corpse's Bride, a movie witch (haha) Stephanie had yet to see and ended up sleeping through.
Now, life is moving very quickly. I'm busy working, of course, on my thesis and am trying to keep myself out of trouble (and by that, I mean keeping myself from adopting furry little animals). My dad came to visit yesterday, installing a nice little blinker for night-driving safety along with much-needed new brake pads. I've got babysitting this Friday for six hours and will be helping out with some kiln firings on Saturday with the other claydogs. I've also got to greet the jurors that I selected for the Juried Student Exhibition this Sunday . With all of that on my plate, I can say for certain that I am looking forward to a relaxing matinee showing of Kiss Me, Kate at Elon on Sunday.
Love,
Monica
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