One of my co-workers invited me to her Halloween party that was on Saturday night. We had to find a costume for Aaron, which was proving to be hard, after visiting a few costume stores. I just didn't like any of them, and neither did he. Then on Thursday, he sends me a message while I'm at work that he wants to be a box-robot! How fun! I was still searching for stuff for my costume, so I went to one of our favorite little stores, Ax-Man. It's a surplus store - everything that was ever in a junk drawer at home? This is where it comes from. I got boxes, reflectors, LED lights, mailbox flags with reflectors, and an old-style oven timer. This was going to be so cool!
It took us most of the afternoon on Saturday to complete the costume. A lot of the initial time was spent waiting for glue to dry. It was a very intricate suit - with a speaker in the front for listening to music, two bottles on little shelves in the inside corners of the suit, hooked up to funnels on the outside for drinking - one for beer, one for liquor. Straws attached to those so Aaron could drink without leaving the costume. LED lights diffused by wax paper for eyes, and dryer tubing, that aluminum looking stuff, for his arms. We plastered the whole thing in aluminum, and were set!
Odin had a blast the whole time, ever since I brought the boxes home on Thursday. He would climb up them and in them, loved the LED lights and the noise of the aluminum foil when we were putting it all together. We will definitely have to store the robot in the garage for next year, that way he doesn't destroy it (and I don't know where we'd keep it in the apartment, anyway!)
He was an instant hit at the party. We explained it to a lot of people. Most people wondered how he was going to pee, as we had not created any sort of hatch in the front or back. The costume was like a little oven, so he ended up having to take it off several times throughout the night to cool down. I only knew a couple of people at the party, my co-worker Lori, and her roommate whom I'd met a couple of times before. Everyone else was new to us.
There were tons of people, good music, TONS of good food, tippy cup and beer pong to play down stairs, and just a good party atmosphere. Until Aaron got pushed up the stairs by some drunk guy, and he's not sure exactly what happened, but I think the oven timer fell out of the front of the costume, and then broke. He had to throw it away. Then he came and told me about it, which sucked. I'm sure the guy was probably drunk and did not mean to do so, but c'mon. He's a giant box robot - he can't just hop up those steps real quick. So, we hung around a bit longer, then said goodbye and headed home. It was a lot of fun, up until the end.
Amazingly, we were home right around midnight, which isn't too terribly late. I was, however, up at 6am today because I never sleep well after I've been drinking. Oh well.
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