So, Halloween weekend Matt and I managed to attend 2 Halloween parties, one Friday night with a grad student and peer crowd, and then the big E-Entry Halloween bash with our students on Saturday. Both were awesome. The first awesome thing: our costumes.
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| You know the Doctor would have picked up a Ravenclaw companion at Hogwarts! |
For anyone out of the loop on these characters, I'm a Ravenclaw student and Matt is the 11th Doctor from Doctor Who. Turns out the Doctor was a pretty popular costume. At our first party, our host and birthday guest of honor, George, appeared as the 10th Doctor:
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| How are they both there at the same time? It's wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff. |
There were some pretty impressive costumes at the E Entry party as well, including another 10th Doctor!
At E Entry we had tons of fun games, including bobbing for apples, squash bowling with water bottle pins, eating donuts from strings above your head without using your hands, m&m chopstick and spoon races, and then, of course, board games late into the night. We took a lot of pictures, way too many to put up on this blog, but the best ones are up in my MIT Adventures Facebook album!
So after many games and much candy, we spent Sunday recovering from the rest of the weekend. Monday was actually Halloween, though, and we couldn't let the day just pass without some festivities. So I decided to continue the tradition of my lovely Purdue roommates, Robin and Kai, and decorate Halloween cookies!!
The hilarious thing, though, was that the only cookie cutters we could get were mostly Christmas themed, except with one Halloween cat and a turkey. We went with it anyway. One of our students, Michelle, helped me do the cut outs, and after a while we embraced the bizarre abstract shapes we got from the dough between the cookie cutters, so we wound up with all sorts of crazy things. Michelle also made a whole farmful of turkeys. Then I made up some frosting in different flavors and sent out the word to the Entry that we were decorating downstairs. A LOT of people were home and we had a fabulous time doing a mass cookie decorating extravaganza!!
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| I'm not even sure how we got some of those colors |
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| Matt is very proud of his radioactive bat |
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| Decorating in progress! |
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| Cookie monsters! ^.^ |
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| Basically our entry is awesome. |
Ooo, and did I mention the cookies were completely vegan?! Turns out apple sauce can go a long way in replacing eggs. Who knew, right? They were still super sugary, though--that frosting is just powdered sugar, water, and food coloring. Delicious.
The cookie craziness concluded our Halloween festivities. Next project: making the turkey for Entry Thanksgiving on Saturday!!! Stay tuned.
