Kara and I went all out for Halloween this year.  She’s been reading Dracula recently so naturally she went as a vampire princess.  I finally pulled off the zombie costume I’ve been thinking about doing for a few years now.  We spent the night in Allentown, NJ where I pastor.  Allentown is serious about Halloween, they do it right and everyone in town gets involved.  I mostly roamed around the streets, stumbling, falling down, moaning and occasionally groaning BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINS.  People loved it.  The combination of the realistic makeup and throwing myself fully into zombie character made it a lot of fun for the people I ran into (sometimes literally).  Thanks to Indy Mogul for the super helpful tutorial on how to do the zombie skin effect right.  Who knew toilet paper was the key!?  For more pictures of tonight check out my set on flickr.

To make the night even more memorable Kara and I decided that we needed to go out to eat in full costume.  So we headed over to the Americana Diner to get some Fried Calamari.  Wow did we turn heads in the restaurant!  One guy sitting behind Kara looking at me stared the entire time we were there.  He didn’t steal glances, he repositioned himself for a good long stare.  As we left I turned onto the road that would take us home to Princeton, only I didn’t realize that it was a No Right On Red light.  So, you guessed it, a cop pulled me over and I got to hand my licence and registration to an officer in full zombie getup.  He laughed and let us go.  Not TWO BLOCKS down the road I got pulled over again, this time because I hadn’t turned my lights back on from being pulled over 30 seconds ago.  Same thing, the cop laughed and let us go on our way.  What a night.