A Haunting...

Psycho Astronaut and Elvira

Tonight we went to some friends' place to visit their Haunted Forest. It's the third year they've hosted this event and it gets more and more fun (for the adults) every year. Even though we kept talking about how scary it will be to walk through the haunted woods, Emi kept assuring us that we were just putting her on for Halloween and that it wasn't real. The first trip through Emi was cautious, but not scared. She helped herself to the buckets of candy and didn't jump out of her skin when the motion activated props moved or screamed. But the second time through, she came into the kitchen where I was noshing on some creepy delectables, buried her pale frightened face into my bosom, and wailed like a baby. One of the helpers had come running from out of the dark woods and scared my poor little girl. One of our friends offered to kick the scary guy in the shins for her...

My costume was pretty lame because I was tired of being a psycho astronaut, but my friend Stacey's costume was very cool. Most of us didn't know it was her when she got to the party because her hair was long and pitch black and she was sporting some serious eye makeup! I knew she was going to be wearing a black cape (or is it a cloak?) but she obviously spent some time adding to the costume. We surprised her with a champagne toast for her birthday....complete with a triple chocolate mini cake and chocolate covered strawberries from a local French bakery...

Little Devil and Elvira