JP's Halloween at the dorms

Yesterday was the favorite holiday for anyone who likes tons of candy. It was also the worst day for Dentists. It was also one of the busiest days of this year for me so far, wait maybe the 2nd busiest day.

A week ago you may have seen signs or heard some people talk about the famous Mocktails in Maple Hall. It is a dance in the second floor of Maple Hall for national alcohol awareness week. We serve “mock” tails instead of real cocktails, we got a FM90 DJ to play music and have a Halloween costume dance. It is put on by Maple Hall Council, one of the best Hall Councils on campus, and I’m not on it, but 3 of my closets friends are. There are 5 members, and 2 of 5 were on campus that weekend, one of them was my roommate, and the other was our close friend. It was obvious that they needed some help so I thought I would help them decorate the lounge. They were very appreciated of me volunteering, why not I really had nothing else to do, (except for blogging but I was done for that week :P ) We started around noon on that Saturday and ended at 1am. Nothing like seeing young freshman girls rubbing on other freshman girls as they danced in a circle of freshman guys, how sad is that? As long as they were having fun I guess, that’s all that matters.

On Halloween, we started maybe a month ago of planning what we wanted to do for the hall decorating contest. I’m not sure but I believe the winners get money for their hall account to spend on floor activities, or a pizza party. I have competed, along with my floor, for 3 Halloweens prior to this one and we have never won. It was time for us to win damnit! We all came up with a theme, Candy Land. Our R.A. went out and bought the game. Each section of the floor will be a part of the game board, Lollipop Woods, Peanut Acres, Chocolate Swamp and etc. My room was a part of Snow Flake Lake, where Princess Frostine skates all day long. We etched and colored each character of the game. My roommate and I colored around 4 characters the size of our doors, with crayons. All of these had to be secret so we had secret meetings and secret rooms to plan activities. We didn’t put anything up till October 31st but everything had to be done at 3pm for judging. I got up at 10 that morning and worked non-stop till 3. The members of Oak Hall Council were our judges

Once they went through our hall twice, they left and an hour later, we got the results, we won the best kid friendly hall. I was happy but sad because we were the only kid friendly floor, but who cares we still won. We had an hour to get ready for the trick or treaters, the real reason why we decorated the hall, not just for the judging but for the kids. Then bam at 5pm the kids came, the ooh’s and aah’s could be heard a mile away, the kids really loved our decorations, and so did the parents. I remember one parent say that he played Candy Land 3 times the night before. The kids would yell out the characters name with excitement.

There were ninjas, teenage mutant turtles, and baby lion cubs, Dora the explorer and her pal boots, princesses, devils and so on with empty bags ready for the handfuls of candy. All I kept thinking was my month old nephew and how I wish I could see him in his Chile Pepper costume. Around 7pm, the floor was dead again. I was tired and so were the rest of my friends, so we decided to take everything down. In 30 minutes it looked like our old floor again, which surprised everyone since it took us 5 hours to put all the decorations up. I took off my Mario costume, and put on my Pajama weekend outfit, turned on the T.V. and went to NFL.com to see how my Vikings did today. I was glad I didn’t see them lose horribly to the Giants, and couldn’t wait to see my bad score on Fantasy Football the next day, being that I had Culpepper and Moore on my team. Halloween was done and over with and I was excited, all I need now is the elections to be over with and all will be well in JP’s life again, or until Christmas decorations start, “sigh”

Click here to go see some pictures of me and my friends on Halloween 2004 on our floor!