halloween stories must come out....i dont have the pics yet!!

i know i know general consensus is that you all need more visual stimulus then actual words to be interested so i do indeed have halloween pics (as reviewed this am there are not that many ;) but some nonetheless! but i want to get everything out while its fresh so i will add the pics tonight after jon charges the cam!

so when you live somewhere that does not really celebreate holidays that your home country does, it is really easy to forget they are happening! its not all commercialized and there are not ghosts and pumpikns starting you in the face even when you are in the shoe store! but we did know of a big halloween party at a club in kuta and there was a halloween costume contest, which nick was quite sure he could win ( actually had big money prizes) lyds and erin it was nothing like the costume contest we entered at gotham that year.....people were even MORE into?!?! i know! crazy

so even though we had a plan ( which almost got spoiled due to people spreading a bunch of stuff about the bali bombers getting executed that night and how no one should go to kuta) update- they were not executed yet, but sentenced to be executed sometime in the next few days. so yeah we knew where to go but come dinner on friday we sat around the sushi place and were like sooo costumes?? hmmmm

so after dinner we went driving around looking for ideas (which is when i almost ran over the five guys on the sidewalk:) nick decieded ( based on hours of research he conducted that day at global) that he was going to be a 'sugar daddy' and wanted to cover his clothes in sugar packets. hence the halloween sweatshop was born! he bought som goofy hat and we went to bintang to buy millions of safety pins and a five dollar bag of little sugar packets! by this time mel has decided that she is going to wear her load pants which double as pirate pantaloons and be a pirate. im like well i have a red dress and here are some horns so i will be a devil ( i know, most lame and uncreative idea i have ever had in my life!) so we go home and promptly get put to work pinning sugar packets all over nicks clothes! while sugar pinning and fashioning mel an eye patch out of cardboard, she says you should wear something that says prada and b e the devil wears prada! and i said well here it would be prado since everything is fake! and hence i had a somewhat more creative costume:) (consisting of a cardboard PRADO necklace the red dress and some horns!)

driving into town on our motorbikes we notice that NO ONE is wearing costumes except for staff at the bars and clubs but by the time we made it to ocean beach it was packed and loads were dressed up, some half assed, and some out of control!

as for the costume competition, nick mighta had a chance in the "goofiest" category, until this guy ran onstage with a disco ball bike helmet and nothing but a whip cream bikin bottom! nothing under it- he had shame enough to keep smearing it around everytime he thought too much of his bits were showing! but he won in a matter of two seconds and then he did a running leap into the pool- the MC was like please- someone give him a towel!! haha

we met up with some people we knew at ocean beach and went to Mbargo and found jon ( he went before us and i got a txt saying " i think dripping buckets of sweat is hot, do you?" and when i saw him he was literally sweating buckets!!! at this point mel has decided that drinking beer is like water and we need more hard stuff but the whole island is having a shortage of alcohol so they only had like really expensive liqours or flavored vodkas. aboslute pear made its way back into my world.....

we all kinda split up: jon went with his indo woman upstairs, never to be seen again ( till the next day!)

mel and nick were dancing it up with some randoms

i was talking to some aussies we met a few nights earlier

then the best part of the night....mel comes over to where i am and literally like half falls half throws herself onto the couch next to me...the look on her face, with the scull scarf tied around her head and the eye patch lazily hanging somewhere between her eye and her forehead was one i wish i had a picture of. she looked at me with what i can only describe as 'googly eyes' ( in the drunk way, not the oo hoo i facny you way!!!) and just said KAELEN. haha i love seeing stanger drunk like that!

so parties made there way to several locations- super nice villas in jimbaran ( makes our shitbox looks even more shitbox if possible:) villas in hmm somewhere else?? haha Double 6 club and soho for late night food!

yesterday was the most lazy day ever to exist but i was at our friends villa ( the really nice one) and so i got to relax in air conditioning with a tv ( albeit the programming is horrific and runs on a repeated schedule!!) but we got to watch the rugby match and some ridiculous aussie movie so it was all worth it in the end:)

i came home today to find that mel and nick had gone to amed so looks like its just me and jon today.....personally im going to find creepsauce at pleo to get me a massage:)