Happy Halloween!!!

So Australians don't do Halloween. I mean not really. It seems like little kids might do a bit of it. But no one else really.

This is a shame, since all Canadians know that Halloween is perhaps the greatest holiday of the year. There is nothing like walking into a party and seeing Batman talk to a princess. It's such fun to board a bus and be greeted by Mario, Luigi and another princess. It's really the best.

In any case, not to be dissuaded, I tried my best to find a way to celebrate Halloween here in Melbourne. I found a party that was being advertised as "Day of the Dead". Close enough? I sent an invite out to the people I know here, but the Australians just wouldn't have any of it. In the end, it was the North Americans I knew who banded together for a night out.

Finding a costume was particularly challenging. It's a shock to walk into a K-mart at the end of October and find nothing in the way of costumes. I sifted through and entire mall, and all I found were Santa outfits and prisoner outfits. Santa is not a Halloween appropriate costume.

So it was that myself, and two other fellows (AJ from New York and Rich from Toronto) went out for Halloween. Rich dressed up as Run DMC. AJ and I wore the prisoner costumes.

And it was awesome. Turns out "Day of the Dead" isn't a Halloween party really. It's some sort of Mexican festival. So our costumes were really didn't fit in. And there were frequent odd burlesque acts that I can only atribute to some thing in Australian culture I really don't understand. But it was rowdy, and we met lots of fun people and had good times.

In other news, I think I'm becoming a better dancer! After the Halloween party, I went to a club down the road. The music was good, so I was cutting the proverbial rug. A cool looking hip hop dancer came up to challenge me to a dance off! That must mean something right?