Boulder is a little, um, liberal, for those who haven't noticed. In fact, the Colorado Republican party ran ad campaigns against a democratic Senate candidate with attacks calling the opponent a "Boulder Liberal," like that was on par with Osama bin Laden and clubbing baby seals. The "Boulder Liberal" won, by the way.
I had a group of friends that decided the Wednesday before Halloween that we should really go out this year on Pearl St. We don't have kids (yet), and a good college friend was in town - all reasons to drink like fishes. The hard part, of course, was coming up with costumes.
In the end, we had a whole group of Republicans heading out to Pearl St. I was Cindy McCain, complete with pain pills and pearls. If only I had a black turtleneck instead of a white one. Will was my secret service agent. We had a Maverick with us - dressed as Top Gun Maverick, but in spirit a true mavericky maverick (wink, wink). We had Todd Palin. We also had a truly outrageous Jem and a gaucho. I don't know their political affiliations, but they didn't mind being seen with us.
The true star of the show was my friend, Colleen, who was a spot-on Sarah Palin. She had the hair, she had the glasses, she had the Nordstrom $1,750 price tag sticking down the back of her suit jacket. People were losing their minds when they saw her walking down Pearl St., wanting to take photos with her and talk to her. If Colleen wasn't there with her husband (dressed as Todd Palin, of course), there was a nerd-costumed guy at the bar that would have gladly gotten her number and followed up.
The funny thing is, Colleen has never been a big Halloween costume person. It was never her thing to dress up as someone else. I can think of a few Halloweens in college and after trying to figure out a costume for Colleen on Halloween day. So for her to literally have the best costume by far was a surprise and so fun. And maybe next year she'll kick it up another notch! Start working on her costume in August. Or maybe, two days before is the secret to Colleen's success.
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It may take a really long time for me to find the inspiration for a Halloween as fabulous as this one! It was THE BEST EVER and I'm so glad we had so much fun. I died when I saw the SNL skit with Cindy - yes, your turtleneck was white, but everything else was spot on! Good times, good times!
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