Halloween

Halloween 1994

When I first met Jerry, I thought he was a real no-nonsense "cool" guy.  By that, I mean that I thought he wouldn't be the type to be playful and act silly.  I was wrong.  By the time our 2nd Halloween together rolled around, I had me in a cow suit and him in a bull suit (he didn't want to be a wimpy cow... he preferred a more macho bull). 

So, here we are in our costumes in 1994.  To his coworker's and friend's amazement, he wore this bull suit the whole day on Halloween... even when he was the only guy in his whole department that dressed up. 

Even more amazing is the fact that he helped me sew his costume... the longhorns were his idea, and he hand-sewed them on himself.  He also sewed his own tail on (I had it dragging across the floor!)  He even went shopping for brown fuzzy fabric with me! 

I got this shot of him sewing on his horns.  And get this... he was sitting there watching a football game while he was doing it!  How's that for multi-talented?

Here we are with our friends just after going through a haunted house that Halloween:

These pictures make me remember one of my very favorite Jerry stories...  It happened on October 30th, 1994.  Palance Harris (shown here playing Vanilla Ice), David Tolkov (shown here as Elvis), Robert Favorite (behind the camera), Jerry (bull) and I (cow) decided to go out to a Haunted House on Interstate 10.  I was determined to wear my costume... after all, it took a long time to make.  So, Jerry wore his as well.   We got to the Haunted House and had to wait HOURS to get in... and it was lame.   So, we all piled back into my Honda Accord... me driving, and Jerry on the passenger side to go back home.  

Palance and Robert were in the backseat.  We had to drive along about 10 minutes of freeway and 10 blocks of the busiest party street in Houston (Richmond) to get back to my apartment.  For about 2 blocks of Richmond, we kept noticing 2 pretty girls in a car to our right giggling and waving at Jerry.  I was thinking we must have looked kind of funny driving down the street with a cow and a bull head on.   Jerry just gave them a short wave like, "Yeah, ok... I know I look funny... whatever..."  Then we all started telling Jerry that it seemed like they liked him... I mean... liked him.  So, he looked over at them again and waved like, "yeah yeah... you can stop flirting now...".   Finally, we told Jerry to roll down his window to see what they would say to him.  

The first thing we hear is two girls saying at the same time:   "Your tail is caught in the door!!!"  So, Jerry, masterfully covering up any outward signs of humiliation, calmly opens the door, pulls his tail in, gives the girls a short "thanks" and a wave, as he shuts the door.

I, on the other hand, was completely catatonic with laughter.  Tears streamed down my face as I gasped for breath.  I hear Robert in the backseat, "Oh no... we're gonna die... pull over!"

I just had this picture of my honda... flying down the freeway with a bullhead in the window, and a stuck tail flapping in the wind, slapping the side of the car.  It was priceless!

Halloween 1996
Hawaii

The next Halloween (1995), Jerry and I decided we were going to be red hot chili peppers... not the group... the vegetable.  I had the idea of using a ghost costume pattern... only with red fabric, and doing green stems and neck bands for our heads.  I was trying to figure out how to get the shape of the pepper right... big on the top, and skinny on the bottom.  Well, that's when Jerry went to work on his great pepper puffer-upper invention... he took 2 red t-shirts, put one inside the other, sewed them together at the neck, arms, and around the waist... leaving a gap open.  Then he stuffed them with pillow stuffing.  That's how we got our costumes to puff up at the top.  I only got two pictures of us that Halloween... two polaroids I gave to his mother.

BUT!  The next Halloween (1996), we spent in Hawaii with my Dad, Mom, Sister (Christie) and Nephew (Nick).  We decided to all go as red hot chili peppers while we were there, so I made costumes for everyone else, and shipped them over to Honolulu before we arrived.  

We had a ball dressing up!  The first thing we did is go walking around Waikiki beach.  I think there are about 2,000 photos of us floating around Japan... let's just say we were very popular with the tourists that night.  Here we are on Waikiki beach. 

It was SO HOT... especially since we had on so much padding, that we had to go back to the hotel room to cool off.  Here's the best pepper of them all relaxing:

Later on that night, we thought we'd go to the local costume contest at the mall. We didn't win, but we got a BIG applause!  We did a mexican hat dance on the stage to some mariachi music.  We also got in more pictures... all of the japanese tourists would come up to us and say, "Take pik-shuh?  Take pik-shuh?"

We got a free polaroid shot of us... which I think turned out really nice.   Here we are at Halloween Magic:

Later that night, we won the best costume contest at the hotel's local nightclub, and won a free dinner for two at the hoity-toity restaurant.  We asked the management if we could change it to a free lunch for 6 at the regular restaurant... so they said YES!

This was Jerry's last Halloween... ya can't get much wackier than a bunch of red hot chili peppers from Texas running around the beaches, malls, and nightclubs of Hawaii. 

Thank you, Jerry... for going along with my silly Halloween ideas and giving me these happy, funny memories.   Halloween will never ever be the same without you, YaYo.

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