halloween and autumny things

Last night was the big night for us students at Beloit College to dress up for halloween. Usually, I have a lot of trouble thinking of a costume. This time, however, it was a magical series of events that transformed four of my friends and myself into a robot army. The day was nothing but amazing.

It started off with a five hour pumpkin carving fiasco at the CCOC (campus and community outreach center). My friend jenny is in charge of setting up of campus events and was planning on having people carve pumpkins for a jack-o-lantern auction in downtown Beloit. When these said pumpkin carvers failed to show up, a couple friends and myself rushed over and were met with TWENTY FIVE uncarved pumpkins. YIKES! Needless to say, those pumpkins took a long time to carve. A couple cuts from an Exacto Knife later, we had about ten pounds of pumpkin guts on the floor and a trunk full of pumpkins.

After that, we did a little dumpster diving for cardboard boxes that we used at our robot bodies. Dancing around with boxes on our heads out of pure excitement, we undoubtedly offered a humorous sight for any passerby. Three hours of taping, cutting, and spray painting later - we became an unrecognizable group of machines meandering about campus. Excellent.