happy halloween, pt. ii

Last night I couldn't fall asleep. I was exhausted but just couldn't relax enough to close my eyes and drift off. Instead I wrote about Halloween. In my sleepy state I completely forgot to mention the kick ass party that Jesse and I attended on Saturday night. CousinAdam and CousinChrissy planned this party for a looooong time. Jesse and I couldn't commit to going because we were hoping to be at World Series game 6. Obviously that did not happen. I was really tired on Saturday and wasn't sure I wanted to drive all the way to Lansing to get really drunk and then have to figure out a way to get home. We couldn't stay at my parents' house because they had a bunch of church camp kids staying at their house. They didn't have anymore room and it just would have been strange to show up all drunk and run into kids that were at church camp with me last summer. Ha! I looked online for a hotel room but couldn't find a decent room for a decent price. We finally decided to just suck it up and go to the party. We knew we'd have fun and would just figure out the rest later. Since we weren't planning on going, we didn't have costumes. We ran to the St. Vincent DePaul store because I thought it would be funny to wear a wedding dress. They were charging $50 for their dresses. Yeah. I don't think so. So as we were walking out the door to go to the party, I grabbed my pearl necklace and pearl earrings. That's right, I went as a senator's wife. Jesse grabbed a pirate eye patch and we were on our way.

CousinAdam and CousinChrissy bought a house in Lansing this summer and Saturday was the first time we visited. It is a kick ass house! I can't believe little CousinAdam and his wife own a house! Isn't Adam still little enough to hide in the pull-out couch in my parents' basement? That's a story for another day, I think.

Since nobody was expecting us to be there, they were all excited to see us. There is nothing like people screaming, "COUSINJENNY! COUSINJESSE!!" at you when you walk in the room. I don't think anyone really appreciated my senator's wife costume. But maybe if they knew me better they would realize that I am so not a pearl kind of girl. Is that dirty? Anyway, the other costumes were fabulous. CousinSethy and CousinGirlErin were the Spartan cheerleaders. Not MSU cheerleaders, THE Spartan cheerleaders. They even did the cheers! CousinAdam was an evil giant white bunny. CousinChrissy was a very funny Sonny Bono. Two of their friends grew mustaches just for their halloween costumes. One guy was Magnum, P.I. and the other guy was Captain Morgan. The best part about the guy that was Captain Morgan was that he totally looked like Ron Jeremy in a pirate costume. NotCousinTodd was Dick DeVos. He said he had to borrow a jacket and tie from a Republican for his costume.

One of the highlights of the evening was when we decided to go to Las Vegas on Sunday morning. NotCousinTodd agreed to pay for all 8 of us to go for the day. Unfortunately we were unable to get a flight out at a reasonable time. Oh, and NotCousinTodd was super drunk and I think we probably wouldn't have really let him pay for us to all go. Probably. Maybe.