Halloween

Halloween in New Orleans is huge. It's basically the second biggest party of the year in this city, which practically means it's the second biggest party in the country. The big thing is to go downtown to Frenchman Street and party.

All of my friends and I decided that we should go experience this huge party, so Saturday night rolled around and we all got all fancied up in our mad duds. My homebody Martin and I were Connor and Murphy MacManus, or the Boondock Saints as they're more commonly known. If you haven't seen The Boondock Saints then do yourself a favor and go watch it right now. It's a cult classic. You wouldn't like it, Mom, and Dad would say it was "the stupidest damn thing ever" or something like that, but it's truly a piece of cinematic brilliance.

Anyway, we all got our costumes on and congregated in one dorm room. There were about 20 of us. We chilled in there putting the finishing touches on our costumes for about an hour, and then we set out. For some reason, several of our group started getting violently ill, perhaps with some kind of extremely fast acting stomach flu that seems common around here on Saturday nights. So before we even got to the streetcar stop the group of 20 was down to 16. It's fairly difficult to get a streetcar downtown at 10:00 on any Saturday night, but on Halloween it's next to impossible. We waited for the streetcar for over an hour, during which time two more people had to leave the group because one of them got violently ill, and a couple more got bored and wandered off.

I don't know exactly how many of us finally got downtown, but it wasn't more than 12. Frenchman street was crazy, there were awesome costumes everywhere. There were people on stilts and a skeleton brass band, and I saw Dr. Jacobi, or however the shrink from Twin Peaks is spelled. At some point on Frenchman The group got split in half and I ended out the night with seven people.

Because of the large percentage of our group who spent the night in the grip of some terrible disease we're gonna have a second Halloween in two weeks. It's gonna be brutal. Hopefully everyone will stay healthy and I'll be able to put up more pictures. Bam.