Love, Brittney: October 2010

This has been, undoubtedly, the best Halloween ever.

Took the Sudanese kids to the Red Butte Gardens Halloween Carnival thing. It was so much fun! They got paint in my beautiful Tim - I still need to scrub him clean. I also carved the first pumpkin of the season - a skeleton, and went to a corn maze under a perfect moon. :)

10/28 : Spent the whole day prepping for Halloween at work. We did a “haunted hallway” in the hallway infront of mine and Julie’s desks. The rules were you can’t hang anything from the walls or ceiling. So we went to Home Depot and bought PVC pipes, and created a 10 foot frame that fit perfectly into the hallway, so we could hang black plastic from the top of the hallway to the bottom, blocking out all light. We filled the hallway/doorframes with all types of fun stuff, and filled the hallway with balloons. It turned out really well.

That night, we carved pumpkins. Highlights - I carved the sandman. Ramzi carved ET. Tara carved a bumkin. Aaron carved a really creepy teethy thing.

10/29 : Had a Halloween extravaganza at work. Everyone dressed up, and families were invited to come trick-or-treat. In a building with something around 700 employees, that means it was a zoo. It was ridiculously fun.

Brittney and her darling girls, Katie Marie and Belinda, came to see me and trick-or-treat. It was so fun to see them.

There were 3 “spook alleys” on my floor. The one my co-workers and I made, and 2 others. One was very well done, it was truly scary.

Brittany and I dressed up like twins. Since we have the same name, and there are hardly any girls at the office, all the guys make fun of us all the time. They call us The Brittney’s, or just Brittney, Brittney Squared, and tease us about our all exclusive Brittney club. So to be funny, we came to work dressed the exact same. It was actually pretty fun.

After, Ramzi and I went to a theatrical rendition of Dracula! It was awesome. It was put on by the Mortal Fools Theatre Project, in the Provo Castle.

I told Ramz we needed to leave an hour early, getting enough time to get there, since I am fully aware how directionally challenged I am. I couldn’t get an actual address for the Provo Castle, just generic directions. I put Castle into my GPS, and it came up with Castle Rock, and the address was very close to that of the directions I had. So I figured it must be it, right? Took half an hour to get there – turns out it was the right address, only in Orem, not Provo. Woops. We turned around and got there pretty easy after that, actually following the directions I had.We got there 5 minutes late, but it hadn't started yet. Success!

Turns out, the Provo Castle is right next to the mental asylum. Creeeeepy! We got lost in the complex area, never having been to the castle, compounded by the darkness. That was fun.

The show was intense and good, I enjoyed it. Especially the whole, being in a castle part.

10/30 : I decided, last minute, I wanted to make a haunted dinner! It ended up being so much fun. Ramzi and Aaron came and helped me cook.

We made hand meatloaf

and finger cookies

Highlight of the whole evening:

Me (to Grams): Look! What do you think?

Grams: Cute!

Me: Cute??

Grams: Yeah, it’s cute.

Me: Bunnies are cute. Babies are cute. This is supposed to be gross!

(Grams giving a confused face)

*Ramzi, Aaron and I are laughing*

Me (to Gramps): What do you think?

Gramps: Cute!

(We all burst out laughing)

Me: No, it’s gross!

Gramps: Oh, it’s a finger? I thought it was Anne with a beard (Anne is my Grandma).

Hahahahahahaaaa.

Afterwards, I got to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters, which I have never done. When I was young, I was always out trick-or-treating. Since I’ve been in the States, I’ve always gone out to parties with friends. I decided this year to forgo the parties and watch Halloween movies and hand candy out to kids. It was fun!