I had company in town this weekend to celebrate Halloween.  There were five visitors in total and, for weeks leading up to the big weekend, we had been brainstorming what kind of group costume we could be.  I threw out that we should be The Royal Tenenbaums.  Unfortunately, that got shot down pretty quickly, and everyone decided to go with a Wizard of Oz theme instead.  There was a catch, though:  They all wanted me to dress up as Dorothy.  I wasn’t exactly crazy about the idea at first but, knowing that the group was set on me wearing a dress all night, I decided to rise to the challenge.  After changing into my odd-fitting dress and stuffing socks in the chest for boobs, I was ready to go.

The foursome of yellow brick road-walkers consisted of Josh, Jon, myself, and their friend Lana.  We all got our costumes off of a website, and we all had to deal with our suits being a tag too snug.  This wasn’t a problem for Lana, but Josh had to wear a pair of my shorts on top of his Tin Man outfit to prevent everyone from basically seeing his nuts and bolts.

The girls had just come back from the So You Think You Can Dance shindig at the Sprint Center so we didn’t get to Martini Corner until around midnight.  This was a problem because we got there just after the buses had dropped off all of the Terror at the Train Station people so there were mobs of people outside of the bars.  I was honestly really surprised at how unorganized the bars at Martini Corner were for the crowds.  Instead of having roped off areas for people to stand in line, everyone just mobbed around the doors and were pushing each other to get inside.  Those that tried to form a line just got cut in front of so they stopped.  We tried to meet up with friends at Velvet Dog but instead opted to go with the shorter line at Tower Tavern.  I was fully expecting people to be grossed out by me in a girl’s outfit and knew my chances were zero to none that any girl would even talk to me.  For some reason, people at the bar loved the getup, though.

We ended up crossing the street to check out the renovations that had been done at The Velvet Dog, and I was pretty impressed with what they did to the place.  The top floor is much bigger, and they even have two small Ski Ball games in one corner.  Very cool.  I ended up running into my friends Rachel and Bridgette, and we each gave a sexy pose while I flashed my sexy legs.

There were some hilarious costumes, as expected.  I think my favorite has to be the Mangino costumes that people wore.

The funny thing about the costume is that some KU fans were really mad that someone would make fun of their coach.  Moments after taking this photo, the girl in this picture got yelled at by some KU fans about how KU is going to kill MU this year at Arrowhead.  The girl just looked at them and said, “Ummm…I went to KU.  I’m a Jayhawk fan.  Lighten up.”  It was awesome.  There were also a lot of Brett Michaels and Amy Winehouse costumes, as well.  I completely didn’t recognize my coworker Brian as Brett Michaels until someone pointed him out to me.

When we all got back to my place, Jenny (Glenda, the Good Witch) peer-pressured me into switching costumes with Lana (the lion).  For some reason, whenever I’m around Jenny she asks me to do ridiculous things…and I do them just because I know she’ll laugh.  This was one of those times.

All in all, the night was an absolute blast.  The others said they had a lot of fun, too, which is always good.  Halloween is often like New Years in that it’s so built up a head of time that it’s often hard to have as much fun as expected.  This was an exception, and it was one of the more fun Halloweens I’ve had in a while.