This is a picture from Halloween 1997 in Seattle. A bunch of friends and I went to the Catwalk and MachineWerks (two of the local Industrial/Goth clubs in town). I'm Wonderwoman and am surprised that I even had a costume since I was finishing up sewing mere minutes before we left the apartment. The goofball to the right of me is my friend and old roommate, Justin. The rest of the folks are from left to right: Walter, Russ, my very good friend Sarah and her bunny Cain and behind her is Ed.

For Halloween 1998, I was in Orlando Florida and so went downtown to Church Street to witness the drunken revelry there and see the really cool costumes people were wearing. My Wonderwoman costume having turned out to be pretty much a disaster from last year, this year I decided to dress up as something different and in true Celine ultra-procrastinator fashion waited until the last minute and had to buy my costume the day before Halloween. I don't think I did too bad a job of choosing, though, did I? That's Chris next to me and I don't really know what he was supposed to be except ugly. He did a good job of that, though.

Does anyone NOT know that I love the Star Wars movies? Well, I do and I always get a kick out of seeing people dressed up as the various characters. This past Halloween I saw a Stormtrooper and Princess Leia (with the awful Danish 'do) fraternizing at one of the local pubs, but I won't say anything about that. Probably my favorite character to see people dressed up as is Boba Fett. When I saw this guy, I just had to stop him on the street and take a picture. There's Chris with him, looking ugly again.

Right downtown in Orlando is the Terror on Church Street attraction, which I have never been to, but is supposed to be a haunted house type of thing but bigger and better in true Disney-esque tradition. For Halloween, they went all out and had all sorts of people dressed up standing around outside trying to entice people to come inside. (Or trying to entice people out of $50, depending on how you look at it.) This guy was one of the cooler costumes I could see and get a picture of. He's supposed to be a bat, I think.

As cool as the bat guy was, the coolest thing I saw that night was the guy on TOP of the Terror on Church Street building who was dressed up as a gargoyle. In fact, when I first saw him move, I was shocked because I thought it was a real gargoyle and not a person. If I were taller, I could have probably gotten a better pic, but there you have it. It was cool, I tell you.