I love Halloween!!!!! Dressing up, eating pumpkin-flavored/spice everything, carving pumpkins, and eating TONS of candy. Forget about the scary stuff... I used to go to haunted houses, but after going to a hunted house where the actors could come up and TOUCH you (the Joker totally freaks me out now) I swore off going to haunted stuff. Anyways, I was thrilled when Whitney invited us over to her apartment for some Halloween food and fun. Check out all the sweet costumes!!
Zebra and Safari Explorer
Gumball Machine and Penny
The perfect NYC costume - Seamless food delivery guys!
Our wild hosts - Giraffe and Monkey!
Google Maps! :)
We just had to grab a jungle picture!
One more group shot for good measure. It was such a great evening - we had yummy food (taco soup, cornbread, apple cider, ghost cupcakes, and pumpkin cheesecake dip) and we played a great game! It was a version of charades using villains and murders as our charade prompts. The first round you can describe the person, the second you can only act them out, and the third you can only say one word! Made for a lot of laughs!
I made this pumpkin pie cheesecake dip - super easy and super yummy - here's the recipe:
2 (8oz blocks) cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup cool whip, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon all spice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Throw it all in a kitchen aid, and whip it till it's fluffy. Then let it set for 30 min in the fridge before serving. Drizzle some caramel over the dip and serve with apples and pretzels! (original recipe here)
haha and just a close up of my fauxhawk braid & zebra makeup. I was pretty happy with how our costumes turned out!
On Saturday Clark and I were super duper lazy. We slept in really late... and we only left the house once to get lunch/walk around in the park. While on our walk we saw HUNDREDS of squirrels burying nuts all over the park. And they were all pretty friendly. They would run up to the little fences and reach out to see if you had food for them. Cutest little beggars. Although sometimes it was a little freaky - I felt like they might jump on us if we actually had food for them.
Although Sunday was super cold, it was GORGEOUS out! Just look at how beautiful our neighborhood is!! I love it.
We bought pumpkins to carve a week before Halloween, but we weren't able to carve them in time for Halloween. Oh well! Since we felt too lazy to carve pumpkins on Saturday, we decided to carve them Sunday night instead! Clark did an amazing job carving the Chrysler Building.
And I carved a classic NYC taxi cab!
Check out our finished jack o'lanterns!
And that concludes our awesome Halloween festivities. I'd say our first NYC Halloween was a success! The Tompkin's Square Halloween Dog Parade, getting pumpkins, going to the Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze, and a Halloween party were all so fun. I'm already excited to fit in even more Halloween fun next year - maybe we'll take a trip to the Sleepy Hollow cemetery or go to the Village Halloween Parade! Happy Halloween!
