Made it through another Halloween
Amazingly, the greedy, overgrown, costume-less teen thugs did NOT start knocking hours too early. We managed to escape before anyone showed up, we left the house around 4PM.
As I said before, our plan was to go to the Great Pumpkin Festival at the Cambridge Brewing Company. And that is exactly what we did. We drove to the Wellington MBTA station and parked there, and caught the train to Cambridge. There isn’t really anywhere to park in Cambridge that doesn’t cost a squillion dollars, plus, since the event involved beer and lots of it, driving all the way there would not have been a good idea. Mike stopped drinking before I did, and by the time we got back to Wellington, he was okay to drive the short distance home. Beats the crap out of having to wait for the bus.
The festival was fun. Lots of great pumpkin beers there, as well as tasty foods made with pumpkin. Pumpkin ravioli is teh YUMMEH! It came with a pesto sauce, that used toasted pumpkin seeds instead of the usual pine nuts, and was garnished with thin slices of apple. I definitely plan to try to recreate this yummilicious wonder at home!
It was past 11:30 PM by the time we got home. Trick-or-treat time was LONG over, thankfully. Although, there was this one time when we went out, came home at around 11, and some kids beat on the door about five minutes later. Sheesh, what kind of dumbassed parents let their kids go around knocking on strangers’ doors so late at night? We did NOT answer the door.
This was the second annual Great Pumpkin Festival. I did not know about the first one. The only reason I knew about this one was because I’ve been getting into following more microbreweries on Twitter and Facebook, and that’s how I learned of this event.
The event was obviously a huge success, judging by the number of people who showed up. The horror of it all…so many evil, bitter people, who didn’t know that Halloween is Just For The Kids, and were legally obligated to stay home and hand out candy. The event was for those 21+, of course, being that it was primarily a beer festival. Evil, evil, EVIL! How DARE there be a Halloween party just for adults?
We didn’t go in costume, but a lot of people did. We saw some really cool costumes, many more than we would have seen if we’d stayed home and gave out candy, as we get mostly teen thugs who can’t be arsed to wear costumes. Sorry, but dressing in all black is NOT a costume!
One of my favorites at the Fest was this guy who went as the Joker, the Heath Ledger version. Whoever did his makeup did a great job. Another one I liked was the guy who went as A-Rod. He had a pinstriped Y*****s jersey with A-Rod’s #13, and a Y***** hat. We strongly suspected that he was NOT a Y***** fan. But, as Mike said, it’s good for Halloween costumes to be scary. LOL!
We also saw Popeye and Olive Oyl, very well done. As was The Cat In The Hat, together with Thing #1 and Thing #2.
Maybe when we go to this next year, I can convince Mike to dress up. Don’t know if he will, but it might be fun to come up with a couple’s costume for next year!
Halloween is not so bad, after all, as long as we can celebrate it on our terms, not anyone else’s!
