I just got a call from the optometrist’s office. My order of contacts has arrived and I can pick them up tonight after work. I guess I didn’t have to decide between wearing contacts for my volleyball game yesterday or for the game tonight. I could have had them for both, after all.

One of the guys from work volunteered to have a Halloween party at his house this past weekend. A few good costumes came out of the woodwork to celebrate. Thanks to Costume Cave, I was able to make a recognisable Willy Wonka, from the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Aside from having a strikingly different face, I think the costume went fairly well. Top hats are also amazingly fun to wear. Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz(1939_film) was with present, along with angels, devils, ghouls and a stripping mummy.¹

It’s nice to see that Halloween is starting to make an appearance in New Zealand. Many people consider it to be “an American thing” and would rather skip out on the chance to get dressed up and wait for Guy Fawkes a week later. While I like good fireworks displays, I’d much rather have a good costume party to go to.

¹ My camera didn’t make it to the party, but there were some others there. I’m counting on being able to get a copy of someone else’s pictures.