Halloween in New York!

This past weekend was, as most of you know, Halloween, the wackiest holiday that Americans adore!

Kids love it, grown-ups love it, candy and fake blood everywhere not to mention some of the craziest costumes you’ll ever see, what’s not to love??

It’s just a great holiday! I remember when I was younger my mom would make my costumes and I would go trick or treating in the neighborhood and then my mom would turn our garage into a haunted house and have crazy Halloween parties, where once she even managed to get the Portuguese ambassador to dress like a girl! (Oops, probably shouldn’t mention that, oh well, he’s retired anyways!) It was a lot of fun so I was very happy to get a chance to relive Halloween in the US all over again!

But if you’re in New York for Halloween you cannot miss the West Village parade! Granted, it’s crowded and it’s super hard to get a great viewing place but luckily our friend got there early and we had one of the best ‘seats’ in the house, here are some of the crazy costumes we saw:

Patrick Bateman - American Psycho ~ this guy was so committed he even created his own Patrick Bateman business cards (I know this because he gave me one!), his photo even made it to the newspaper the next day!! 

Crazy eyeball guys ~ there were a lot of those circling around…

It’s Beetlejuice and his ‘bride’ Lydia!!!

It’s “Occupy Sesame Street”!! Get it? It’s a play on the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement that’s going on at the moment, I thought this was absolutely brilliant!

It’s Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinski and the stain!!!! LOVE it! 

It's stuff like this that just makes me think I'm definitely not creative or imaginative enough! Honestly, I wish I could post all the crazy costumes up here but there just isn't enough space!

The parade did bring back memories though...more than 10 years ago, my mom decided that she wanted to walk in the parade so she bought herself a Wicked Queen costume and I borrowed a Snow White costume from a friend (mind you though that she was 12 when she wore it and I was 17 at the time I was wearing it, not creepy at all!) but off we went to join the parade, it was cold and we had to wait for ages to get started but it turned out to be a lot of fun!

Thanks New York, just keep it coming!