Monday, October 30, 2006
I just love Halloween and tend to go all out for the occasion. We were quite determined to keep the festive feeling of last week's fab trip to the Haunted Corn Maze and Jo's scary PJ party going. So on Friday night I hosted a FALL BBQ SPOOKTACULAR. Joseph, Brendan, Jeff, Benjie, Marcus, Scott, Stephen, Sara, Charles, Gilles, Kevin and Kyle XY all came by and we fired up the grill for the last time this year. I decorated my apartment and had scary Halloween music and Elvira playing in the background. With the mood set just right we had a delicious BBQ (thanks to the grill master, Jeff) and Brendan's homemade cheesecake was a big hit, despite the lumps of cream cheese!
The original plan was to carve pumpkins after dinner but we were far too interested in drinking our wine, trying on our halloween outfits and discussing our plans for Saturday night. By the time we were done with that it had gotten late and so we just turned off all the lights and cuddled up to watch Pet Semetary - "Daddy, I want to play with youuuuu" - CREEPY!
VALLEY OF THE DRAG QUEENS
On Saturday I woke up early and went to the salon to get my make-up done in preparation for a the gay Halloween dance at the Lions Club in Nictaux. After spending a good portion of the day running errands while trying to hide my fake eyelashes and over-the-top make-up behind sun glasses , I met up with everyone at the Hydrostone and we departed for our Halloween Gay-Away in the Valley. Jo and I sang the entire American Life CD as we drove in Polly. We were probably driving poor Gilles crazy who decided to pass the time by speaking some "Frenglish" on the phone to his mom - "Mama mal-a-dit ... line of credit ... voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"
When we arrived at the Terauds', Bev had homemade chili and cornbread all ready for us. Stephen's parents really are the greatest the way they open their home to us and put up with all of our obnoxious behaviour. I can think of very few mothers who would lay out a selection of purses on the dinner table for her son's 28 year old male friend to choose from. And very few fathers would go around snapping pictures of his son and all his friends as they get dressed up in womens' clothes. Yes indeed, we love the Terauds!
Tops (l-r): Crystal Carrington (Dynasty),
Poc-a-hot-ass, Emily Howard (Little Britain).
Bottoms (l-r): Sophia Petrillo (Golden Girls),
Crack Jem, Paris Hilton, La Reine (Pretty Woman),
and Bree VandeKamp (Desperate Housewives).
Even though doing drag was originally my idea and I was pushing everyone for weeks to get their costumes together, when we actually arrived at the dance I was petrified and started saying, "I want to go home!" This fear grew in intensity when the first several people we saw coming down the stairs were NOT in costume. We all started to think perhaps we had made a big mistake until we got upstairs and recognized the barrage of equally ridiculous costumes surrounding us. It wasn't long before our panic subsided and we were having the time of our lives in our wigs, gowns and 4" heels..
The dance was like a scene from Small Town Gay Bar, and a lot of heads turned as we all walked in. But everyone was very friendly and welcoming and we made plenty of friends throughout the night. Quite a few $3.25 drinks were had by all and so much happened that there's no way I could recap everything in detail. Instead, here are some of the hilarious highlights:
** Our many trips to the women's washroom to fix our make-up and hair
** Bonding with the lesbians of the Valley in the bathroom
** A lesbian walking in on Scott while he had his dress hiked up to pee
** Gilles trying to rip the headdress off his elder
** A photo shoot on the Lions Club floor
** Brendan saying, "Friar Tuck and Robin Hood ... I TOTALLY GET IT!"
** Jeff losing his nail ... ummm ... YA!
** Joseph slow dancing with the locals in order to gain an invite to an after party
** My lipstick on Jeff's ass
** The leather daddies
** Jeff attempting to trade costumes with the leather daddies
** Zoobilee Zoo lesbian grandmother
** Brendan's African friend revealing she thinks her Jehovah's Witness husband is gay
** Catfight on the dance floor between me and Marcus (Crystal vs. Paris)
** Catfight in the foyer between me and Marcus (Crystal vs. Paris Part II)
** Scott knocking over the table
** Gilles stealing the Kittens and Ribbons guest book
** Realizing we are stranded in Nictaux and having to get Peter to come pick us up
** Making Peter go back to the Lions Club to get my purse
** Moldavia Massacre
** Lactose intolerant Marcus
** Put your Pizza Corner in my basement
** Do you see what I see?
To check out a slide show of photos from the dance, pray to Jesus by clicking here.
SHANTI SHANTI, GAYYY-O
I woke up early on Sunday morning to an all too familiar sound - Brendan telling me he was bored. I attempted to keep him entertained for awhile 
even though my my eyes were half closed and it wasn't long before the smell of fresh coffee and waffles made its way around the house and woke everyone else up as well. We feasted on our delicious breakfast and told stories of our evening to Bev and Peter. Did we actually go to a gay dance at the Lions Club in Nictaux in DRAG? The remnants of lipstick, nail polish and eye liner told us that we did. After breakfast we lazed around the basement until just before noon when we decided it was time to head home. It was such a picturesque day. Two deer were even 
playing on the Terauds' land as we got ready to leave ... perfection.
After saying "sorry thanks" to Bev and Peter, we decided to take advantage of the beautiful fall weather and drove the scenic route through the Valley. Mine and Jo's CD of choice this time around was Ray of Light. The colours of the fall leaves and the many fields and orchards were breathtaking. We stopped in Kentville for a photo shoot with the pumpkin people and then dropped Jody off at his house in Wolfville. Joseph and I remarked how many of the towns we passed through were just like movie sets. The drive was as close to a perfect Sunday activity as you could possibly get.
BIG MARYS
Towards the end of our journey home our caravan of vehicles found its way to Sackville where we stopped for dinner at Mary Brown's. Joseph and I were super excited to introduce everyone to what we know as a Newfoundland delicacy, and were delighted that everyone enjoyed it. Who wouldn't love taters dressing and gravy with a Big Mary!
Unable to make the decision to leave one another, we all reconvened at the Hydrostone to reminisce some more about our weekend and to discuss trombones and various other disturbing things. I remarked how we all had reached a new level of comfort in our friendships. Finally, I told everyone I was sick of looking at them and left for home to see Liebchen and get some rest.
I honestly cannot say enough what a fantastic time I had this weekend, and it would not have been half as much fun had I done it with anyone else. We're already planning our "outfits" for the Christmas dance. Watch out Nictaux!!!
For more stories and photos from our Halloween Gay-Away, visit Glamour Jesus, Hydroblog and Hatchet Lake Ho.
Thanks to Bev and Peter for all their hospitality and putting up with our over-the-top gayness this weekend. A special thanks to Bev for loaning me her mother's fab vintage sequined clutch purse! A special sorry-thanks to Peter for bringing me all the way back to Nictaux at 2 am in the pouring rain with a van full of obnoxious and drunken drag queens to retrieve said purse!
