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I am obsessed with Halloween. Usually for this holiday I dress up at least 2 or 3 times. Unfortunately we are in Michigan, away from our friends in Georgia and our family in Utah so Shaun said many times "who are we even dressing up for?" I was still determined to have a good Halloween and it ended up being one of my top favorite years. Shaun is usually over the top with his costumes because he is trying to win a contest of some sort so we went much simpler this year since it was just the two of us. So we decided on:

Goths 

{unless your definition for a goth is a viking or a warrior like my G'pa}

It ended up being a human experiment. We went and walked around the mall because I wanted to show off our look a little bit and maybe find a few of "our kind" because that is usually where they hang out. It was so entertaining to have people look at us and then quickly turn away when we make eye contact with them. They were never really sure if we were in costume or just going on with our everyday lives. I LOVED the attention, I felt like a celebrity {yes andrea & kristine, I am still in it for the glory}. However, sometimes I did feel like I was being looked up and down from a few judgmental people---especially the elderly people or parents. It almost looked like they were appalled that we were even out in public. 

We then went to dinner and asked our host as he was sitting us if he thought we were in costume or not. He got super awkward and stumbled on his words not wanting to say the wrong thing or offend us. 

"no..um, you two look fine! we get a lot of people like you around here."

We told him we were in costume and showed him a picture of what we really looked like. He was laughing and was so relieved. We ate dinner and came home to watch Ghostbusters on TV. I had never seen that movie and I guess you just had to be alive during that time to enjoy it because I thought it was the dumbest movie.  Overall it was such an awesome Halloween and a very fun memory. Hope everybody's Halloween was fantastic!!