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This weekend was awfully busy! Thank goodness it was long.  Thursday night Nikki & I carved extra special Halloween pumpkins.  We used stencils for our “Barack O’Lanterns” from Yes We Carve.Com.  I think the ghostly A’s turned out fabulously!  It was my first experience with the pumpkin carving technique of “scraping,” so I ended up with a lot of pumpkin debris flying in my face and down my shirt, but it was all worth it.

Yes We Carve!

Friday was Halloween, of course.  Patrick and I dressed up as characters from our favorite show, LOST.  I was a scientist, or Karin DeGroot to be exact, and Patrick was button pusher Kelvin Inman.

It was a bit of a trip. Halloween in downtown Athens is always the best.  Costumes get more and more elaborate every year.  I think my favorite this year was the couple dressed as a Wii and Wiimote Very creative, but pretty limiting when it comes to movement.  It was really something seeing the Wii’s buddy get him up on a chair.  More Halloween pictures can be found here, at flickr!

If that weren’t enough (for a homebody like me), Saturday night I visited 8e’s (eighty’s) for the first time.  If it’s not obvious, 8e’s is a theme bar where nerds go to dance their booties off to music that is even better 20 years later.  Despite the shtick, myself, and two friends were the only people dressed from our “mother generation.” And we were dressed to the hilt! Here’s Nikk and Lesli getting their dance on & Patrick & I just before we left. I think I’ll wear my leg warmers a lot this winter, too. So the purchase wasn’t made completely in vain. Here’s P & I just before we left