So last night was pretty fun, went out with the friends, just went bar hopping for the most part, being the weekend before Halloween, we planned it out. I dressed up as Nightcrawler, Phil as Gambit, Joanna as the Dark Phoenix, Justin as Cyclops, Mandi as Rogue, Drew as Beast and Kristie joined us later in the evening as Jubilee. Firstly we met up at Joannas work to take professional photos. They came out AMAZING! I should have the cd from Joanna later this week. It was kinda odd scaring all the little kids by accident that were in the portraits place. Kinda funny though.
Afterwards we left and I went back to Drews place so I could use some of his latex paint cause all I had were black gloves I made and it made it very hard to hold a drink or have a cigarette. From there I proceeded to RTO Sullivans. Its an irish bar in Mesa. It wasn’t what the plan was supposed to be, however we did decide to go there, we just didn’t plan on staying there as long as we did. We got really drunk, I owned a pool shark and his girlfriend (probably the most amazing game of pool I have ever played, the game was only 5 turns long, I broke, then the pool sharks girlfriend, Phil went, then the pool shark cleaned house down to the 8 ball, and with only one of our balls in, I cleared the table). The DJ greeted us nicely, “The X-men are in the hizzaouse!”…. sweet. Later on when Kristie showed up, it was about time for the costume contest. Which was awesome. A bunch of people came up and said I should of won afterwards, but being that the prize was Suns Basketball game tickets on a day that I am working, I really didn’t care to much. They had to pick two people out of our group cause they didn’t want the X-men group of us winning the entire contest.
Later on we went to Iguana Max to check out the costume contest there. That bar was definitely more happening. Even if it was college kids I didn’t wanna see. The costume contest wasn’t actually for the bar it was for a band that was playing, not a good one either. We had just misread the fliers. The band wanted to give first prize to the girl that showed of her “endowments”. I knew from the beginning that the contest was crap and walked outside, my colleagues met me outside shortly after. At least I was comfortable that the girl that won was a striking resemblance to Flava-Flave, which was her costume.
We finished up our drinks and ended up at ihop to get some grub. Got sort of a movie star treatment with everyone taking pictures of us. We had lost half of our group at that time, and we were drunk and tired and the majority of our makeup falling off… but it was still fine. Overall a great night… however hangovers suck.

Halloween had of been the best I have had this year than most any of the experiences Halloween not just in Arizona, but in my entire life! The entire group pulled together and busted out some amazing costumes of old school style x-men. I got to be NIGHT CRAWLER!!!! I was so happy about that. Not to mention I busted out my costume in only a couple hours of work… I was satisfied with that. The entire group went and took professional photos at Joanna’s work. Then went bar hopping to all of the costume contests… we won just about everything we went to. They had to start grouping us as one costume cause everyone else was getting mad that we were winning everything hahaha. Pretty good stuff.