Friday, November 11, 2005

New post! Halloween pictures and everything!

Halloween has come and gone, and I had a pretty interesting costume that I thought I would share with you. My group at work had planned on dressing up as Kill Bill characters, so I thought I would join in. Irritatingly, however, it turns out that on the day of costume donning, virtually everyone wussed out and didn't dress up, leaving me and one of my co-workers as a rather strange pair at the party. I was dressed as Pai Mei, the ancient Kung Fu master that trained the assassination squad, and my co-worker was dressed as The Bride, in her wedding dress and covered in blood, with a sweet looking bullet wound to the temple. Perhaps, with some support from others that had promised to dress up, I wouldn't have had to field questions all day like "Who are you supposed to be? Gandalf?" "You are Dumbledor, right?" "Are you father time or something?" I can count on one hand the number of people who actually knew who the heck I was, and that was probably because they were on the initial email telling them to dress like Kill Bill characters. A rather waste of a good costume, in my opinion.

On the other hand, my son was quite convinced of who I was after he got over the shock of having a strange old man in his room with a long beard..."Daddy's dressed like Santa Claus!" He thought it was pretty neat. Anyway, on to the pictures:


"Do not mess with Pai Mei's Eagle's Claw!"


The ACTUAL Pai Mei


The blushing bride, Beatrix Kiddo