Halloween is a big event in Cayman. Not so much for the kids, we had one trick-or-treater last year and none this year, but for the big kids. Back in the day, Seaview, Sunset & Blue Parrot block parties were the second biggest parties of the year, if not the biggest of the year (aside from their New Years Eve parties)

This year I was invited to a party at Beach Club Colony, on Seven Mile Beach. The people who threw it throw one every year, and it's always a big bash. Originally I was going to go as Ali G. Back in the spring, I picked up some yellow-tinted shop safety glasses at A.L. Thompson's to use while riding my Vespa at night. One night I walked into McCoy's (RIP) with them still on and three or four people said "HOLY COW YOU LOOK LIKE ALI G!" so I thought I'd grow a goatee, don a yellow track suit, beanie and some bling and practice my fake gang-signs. As it turned out, I couldn't find a yellow track suit but I had a better idea... What could I be for Halloween that would cause jaws to drop and people to say "YOU'RE NOT RIGHT!" Truth be told, I got the inspiration from South Park last week.

I already had a pair of boots and khaki shorts, all I needed was a khaki shirt (Thanks Jason!) some red paint and a stingray! I ran out to The Book Nook and checked their kids section and found a rather large spotted ray. Bonus points for being a hand puppet and more bonus points for only being $15! Red fabric paint from Superstich for $2.99 and a couple safety pins and I was good to go. The hat came later and just topped it off (no pun intended, maybe). From the moment I walked into the party, people pointed and gawked and they covered their mouths and whispered to each other... Yes! Sure it was in poor taste, and probably a little too soon, but hey, I was the talk of the party! There was another Steve Irwin there, roughly the same costume, but no stingray, just a bloody chest wound and a stuffed crocodile around his neck. A third one showed up later, but he was just in khakis and had some sign draped around his neck that said something about protection from rays. Good ideas, but come on, NO STINGRAY? Lame.

Jason came with us, he dressed up like a cowboy. I didn't think about it at the time, but when I was uploading the photos and needed a description, I started referring to him as Brokeback FNG. heh heh. In the middle of the photo is MJ as The Bride from $imdb(Kill Bill) and her boyfriend Robert as Kim Jong Il.. ha ha! aside from being twice as tall as Dear Leader, it was a SPOT-ON imitation. He hadn't seen $imdb(Team America) so I made him watch a couple scenes with Kim Jong Il in it so he could have a couple catchphrases. Fuck you, Hans Brix! and I'm so ronery... were them.

 Eleni and Emma showed up, in feather boas and wigs and said they were "the 80s" but everyone thought they were hookers, so they just rolled with it and said they were hookers from the 80s.

Special Ed made an appearance at the party, too. I was getting ignored at the bar, so Ed came over and started slapping the bar and yelling "IIIIIIIIICE! I NEED IIIIIIIIIICE!" until a bartender came running over and told him to calm down and take it easy. I almost think that the bartender thought Ed was really retarded and came running right away. The guy in the wheelchair is Larry Flynt, but about 200 lbs lighter. I don't know who he is. We left that party around 10:30 to go see what was going on elsewhere. Special Ed ran across West Bay Road "in character" and ended up twisting his ankle for real. heh heh.

We made our way down to Aqua Beach where Ratskyn was supposed to be playing. Earlier Saturday it rained like I thought we needed to build an ark, so they called the gig off. No one there was in costume either, so we turned around and walked back out and headed for the Rackham's/Hammerheads toga block party. Smooth Bill Annie was playing there that night, and we showed up just as they were starting their second set.

CayROCK 96.5 was sponsoring the party and had prizes to give out. One of the girls came around and handed me a CayROCK handbill and said "this designates you as a finalist for the costume contest" uhh what? you're joking... anyway. Me, Lucy the Mermaid, Special Ed, Shannon in a toga (mrowr) and Female Elvis (Felvis) were the finalists. Lucy ended up taking home the first place prize which was a ticket to Miami! Woohoo! After that, it was just about midnight, so all the parties were winding up and I dropped Eleni, Emma and Special Ed back at Eleni's house to continue the party and then I went home.

That was just Saturday night's parties! Tuesday was a whole 'nother night all over again. Starting from my apartment and heading south, Hot 104 was parked at The Strand, they were hosting a Halloween party at District 6. Ratskyn was playing at Next Level for Rock Tuesday with CayROCK 96.5 and bonus it was Halloween. There was another band at Coconut Joe's, so I assume that was either Smooth Bill Annie again or maybe Suckerbox. Further on down the road was The X107 Thriller at The Wharf, something else was going on at Rackham's again, and Z99 was hosting their $imdb(Rocky Horror Picture Show) party at the Hard Rock Cafe in Georgetown. I kept driving. None of the places that I drove past looked all that busy at 10:00, so I wasn't sure what was going on. When I approached Sunset House, there were cars parked along South Church Street, which meant that all of Sunset House's parking lots were full. I managed to find a spot and walked the rest of the way, and it was pretty packed. I should have dressed up again, but I didn't, and I should have taken my camera with me, but I didn't.

One of the first costumes I noticed was a huge Marilyn Monroe. "She" was so big, and with such cartoonishly large breasts that I thought it was a guy in drag. When "she" walked past me though, I saw that it actually WAS a girl! Holy cow, talk about your amazons! There were a LOT of costumes there, and a gaggle of smurfs who all came together with blue body paint and white smurf hats. One of them said hi to me as they walked past but I didn't recognize who it was until later.. it was Jim, who we used to call The Hobbit behind his back... the fact that he was a smurf for Halloween was just too funny... Lucy was there, too with her partner in crime Frederica. Lucy ended up winning best female costume, AGAIN! I left around midnight but I think the party kept on keepin on til 2am with a liquor license extension.

As I drove home, I could see that the Hard Rock was closed up and dark already, The Wharf only had 10-15 cars in the carpark and Coconut Joe's & Aqua Beach were pretty full. It was good to see Sunset House had the biggest crowd of anywhere. Even though I rarely go there, it gave me a warm nostalgic feeling for the "old-school" block parties that were the big draws of the year down in south sound 7-8 years ago when I first got here.