Halloween

October 30, 2010
It's Halloween and there's a party in the upper west side that Bola and I plan on going to. We go to his place with a couple four locks. He's planning to dress as Don Draper. He doesn't know how to tie a tie though and I end up tying it with the help of a Youtube video. Onto the train and after much confusion, we go to Still, an NYU bar.
We stand around a bit until we finally move out to the next bar with Stefan. Murray, Glen, Scott, Atron, Bolanos, and I. We find a place across the street from Beauty Bar. Obviously Stefan gets lost on the way somehow. The bar is pretty cool and has a live band playing 90s. Some awesome stuff like Smash Mouth and Everlong and some unawesome stuff like Weezer and Green Day. That reminds me of the awesome 70s cover band that we heard in Montreal. Boy that was a fun night.
Atron is a Chilean miner like everyone else. I told Bolanos to buy a cheap cigar to look like a Mafioso because his suit was a bit big on him. We had this conversation earlier in the night, but somehow a guy guessed he was dressed as Don Draper, just because of a suit. He then saw the cigar and said that he must have changed his mind and wanted to be a Mafioso instead. That is like scary dead on. Bolanos joked that he should hire him as a mystic.
After a couple beers there, we go to Company under Atrons apartment and then Coyote Ugly. There's still a gorgeous halfie there that is barely wearing anything, dancing on the bar, and pouring shots down peoples throats. She looks like Marie Digby, google it if you don't know. The bartenders also get to play flip cup at the bar against patrons. Now that must be a fun gig to have.
After that Bolanos and I try to catch the subway, but I doesn't come in time so we try to race for a cab. Halloween weekend and no cabs, we give up and decide to take the 519, sigh. Bolanos is stupidly adamant about getting Artichoke. We split up and I meet the rest of the champions at a pub across from Crif Dog. I Guinness it up and Bolanos actually makes it to the bar. I can't believe that he didn't have to wait over hour, but good for him. We then go looking for food or something. Atron is quite the drunk Lewis and Clarke, chest out, leading the way, while stumbling and taking up the entire sidewalk as he walks diagonally.
He leads us to a place that is closing in 4 minutes. Our leader takes no heed to this warning and runs inside. He goes to the bar and asks for a beer. The bartender puts down the beer and I say, "I'm sorry, no beer." I put my arms around him and escort him outside. We decide we want food and Aaron smartly leads us to Zaragoza for tacos. It's also closing (4AM), but he goes up against the door and tries to beg for tacos.
Then we move onto pizza. It's a long line and we decide to wait. However, we realize there may be impending doom as they're starting to run out of pizza and close up. We man up and go up to ask and find out there's no pizza. Wait, or are they just out of pizza?
We joke about this and Atron cannot get enough of it. He cannot stop laughing at "No pizza, or they just out of pizza." Granted, I'm no Sober Sally and I get a kick out of it too, but not as much as he does. We give up and follow Atron to his apartment. We're scared he's going to break some teeth and he climbs his super steep stairs. He rants off that we all need to go to Coyote Ugly (which is surely closed by now). Bolanos and I leave at that point. 519 is not as fun as the 319, but what can you do.

October 31, 2010
I wake up to kids knocking my door. I ignore it for a bit, but finally had enough and I put a sign on my door saying "NO CANDY. SORRY :("
Ela wants to go to the parade today so I head in at 6:50. I meet her and another au pair in Time Square. Ela's gotta have McDonald's so I get dragged along to dinner there. After that, we move downtown and it's just a crowded mess. You see a lot of costumes, there are lots of people with you behind a baracade, and it's really cold. At least as a New Yorker, I can say that I've been to the parade. It probably would be decent as a pregame before going out for a night, but unfortunately, Halloween landed on a Sunday this year.
I end up missing the 1020 train back by 10 minutes so I have nothing to do, but chill at Penn. I get a big Smoothie King with whey, delicious. I also have some Nathan's. Yes, I know, junk food day, but hey, Nathan's is well worth it. My favorite fries, big and potatoey. And proper hot dogs with that snap when you bite.