This is Suka Boy [soo' - ka]: Boo! did I scare you?

Happy Halloween.

Well thank god the weather held up. Wasn't too cold, and it wasn't raining. So that meant lots of kids. And they liked my pumpkin. I was trying to carve out Gandalf. well just his face. I sketched it on a piece of paper. When I carved it I used the stem as it's hooked nose, so the top is actually the middle of it's face and this was the final result.

Gandalf the pumpkin head

It fell over twice. So I repaired it with skewers and I punctured my finger in the process. Now it's the bionic pumpkin.

We also got lots of highschool kids. But we gave the big kids the crappy candies and the little ones the good stuff.

Oh and I think we got a couple of adults. Not really sure. Kids are so big these days.

Anyways. The highschool kids kind of take away from the novelty of Halloween. Maybe I'm just getting older. I don't even know where it started.
Oh Tresa just said it started in Ireland. So how come we don't give out beer?

We went to a halloween party the day before at some friends house and it was great! Our friend Alicia and Eric are so gung ho about halloween and costumes were mandatory at this party. And she even raised money for Unicef. Pretty admirable, huh? We got the invite to this party, a few weeks back. So we dropped by the goodwill store on our way from the St. Lawrence market. Not really expecting anything we went in. Tresa got this cardigan for 57 cents or something. I am not sure, but it was cheap. She was following some old asian lady that picked it up first. She shadowed her like she was a spy. Like when people in their cars follow people walking from the mall in order to get their spot.

So I was just looking around and found this costume of a lion, however, it was only the body, but it had a tail! I wondered how much it was and it was 8 bucks. I'm sure I could've got it cheaper, but it was for a good cause. So I shelled out the big bucks.

I went by there again the next weekend and saw a big stuffed bear. And thought I could take the thing apart and use the paws and feet for my costume. Then I remembered I got a lion and not a bear outfit.

Which takes us to Oct 30th and still no further additions to my costume. And Tresa didn't even have one, but I think she was going to wear her cat costume, but the tights are a little too tight now. We're at almost 16 weeks now. And she's barely showing but the belly is slightly bigger. The only thing is that she says her tailbone is sore. Apparently what's happening to her body is that there are hormones getting sent to her joints and loosening them in preparation for the birth. So she's wearing my old Rasta Man costume.

So we headed to my favourite store, Wal-Mart for supplies. We had bought some candy at No-Frills, but figured we needed more candy to dish out. We ended up getting more candy and then Tresa suggested we go check out the costumes section for a lion mask or something. And that's when we say Spiderman, the Hulk and Superman walk by.
Well there was nothing in the costume section that I could use. I figure I'll just cut out some cardboard or something and make some ears and attach it to my head somehow. Wasn't sure how though. Then Tresa saw a big stuff toy lion.

Hmmm....9.94. Price was right. Only thing was, it was brand new. I wasn't too crazy about disassembling a 'new' toy for the sake of a costume, but time was running out and for less than 10 bucks this was a pretty good price. We bought it. This was a stuffed toy, but I felt like I was putting a pet to sleep.

Ya, I felt bad. And I ended up waiting till just before we were going to the party to take the lion apart and make it a part of the costume. I attached the paws to my costume and then attached the head to a piece of ribbon that Tresa brought home, but it kept falling over. I then pinned the head to my hat and that seemed to work pretty good. I left the price tag on just in case we decided to return it. Think they'll notice the stitching? Like the Borg, it was about to become part of the collective. Resistence was futile.