Halloween Horrors

Halloween is such a fun holiday because any crazy outfit/hair is acceptable. This year - like many other years - I had no idea what I wanted to dress up as. However, when friends and I went to look for costume ideas/pieces (and no, I've never actually spent money on a full costume before), I found some crazy green tights. There were also red, blue, yellow, orange (which my friend bought), and purple leopard print. I would have bought them if I had any inkling of a costume I could make out of it...

With those green tights, I decided I could go as Poison Ivy (from the comics, not the plant). When I told my friends that, I didn't realize that what they imagined was something a lot skimpier.

from the game Arkham Asylum

Yea, I would never EVER wear that. Instead, what I was imagining was a lot more covered...more like 

courtesy of lightboxentertainment.com

Unfortunately, I ran out of time to make the costume, and couldn't find green gloves, so I decided to go as a glam rocker...and I still wore my green tights ^.^ I bought spray-in color for my hair because I didn't want to risk bleaching and dying my hair. I was super surprised that the colors in my hair came out so well! I kind of want purple or red streaks in my hair now, but not on top. I want them underneath my hair so that it only peeks through.

My hair felt crunchy all-night because I stuck in tons of hair gel to try to get a faux-hawk. Good thing I didn't use hair-spray - I could smell the gel the entire time, and I used Garnier Fructis so it actually smelled nice! My hair is just a little too long for it, so I ended up bobby-pinning it sorta-up - the stiffness of my hair definitely helped, but it wasn't the faux-hawk I was imagining of anime proportions. On that note, I wonder what cosplayers use...

Anyway, we went to a Halloween party...on the night before Halloween (good thing it's on a Sunday this year!) Sadly, we missed Journey to the End of the Night, an SF streetrace in Halloween costumes because of circumstances out of our control. Luckily for us, we caught a break because it started raining in SF anyways (and I absolutely HATE being outside when I'm being rained upon.) Surprisingly I managed to get home before I went to sleep, even if it was at 5 am. :P

Sadly my laptop broke so no pictures for awhile >.<

Flying Angels and Sneaky Devils

On Sunday I went with a friend to San Francisco for Fleet Week. She enjoys her exercise like me, so we walked down The Embarcadero to Pier 39. Although we got started a bit late (we cleaned her house after a party the night before) we managed to time it almost perfectly and got there about an hour before the Blue Angels performed.

I had seen them perform several years ago, but barely remembered anything of those shows, so I was super psyched to see them this weekend. Basically I was willing to miss every other performer as long as I did not miss the Blue Angels.

It was a fantastic show, with the jets showing off awesome tricks and maneuvers. Surprisingly we managed to snag spots right next to the water, so we had something to look at even when they were flying around other places. The jets were flying so fast that I only managed to catch one good picture of them (while close-up). Since my camera is slow at taking pictures, I usually managed only to get pictures of the blue sky.

Afterwards, we went to get shakes (in my case, just good ole' ice cream) and then headed back to Berkeley for the Maroon 5/One Republic concert. We drove up to the hill to 'watch' it, although it's more like hear it because trees block the view. The pretty colorful lights still could be seen ^.^

We brought along a bottle of wine and the three of us finished about half of it. The concert finished at about 10-10:30 ish, so we decided to go and explore Berkeley. Since one of my friends had never been inside the stadium, we snuck inside and had some fun in the basement portion. The funniest thing was seeing how one of my friends totally couldn't be quiet to save her life.

We did climb some gates to get inside, but when we started hearing some clanging/walking sounds we decided it would be in our best interests to scram. Once we found a way out (not the same way we took in of course), we had another hurdle to deal with. The friend that couldn't be quiet...also was afraid of heights. Unfortunately, the way out required a little fall over a wall with some trash cans to help us climb up the side we were on.

It took a good several minutes to convince her to climb it. Although when she finally DID fall, it was only about a foot...LOL. It was still early after that, so we checked out the rumor of a skate park near Clark Kerr. Surprisingly, it was almost a fully completed park, but it had chains everywhere. There definitely were people who 'used' the skate-park because we found game equipment, like a foosball table and croquet, and a skateboard (without the wheels) that people had used to slide down the walls (it was already scraped up).

It was a lot of fun to climb and run and slide around, but I definitely wasn't dressed for it. I would have taken pictures but I didn't bring along the camera and my phone camera can't take pictures in the dark.