I'm a demonic rock star!

I had to go to the embassy today for language class and to pay a couple bills. When I went into the office, one of the girls saw me and said "I loved your costume!". And then the three other girls were all like "Hey you're the costume guy!" and "That was awesome!". They asked me all sorts of questions about it. But the funny part is, none of those people were actually at the party. So apparently the 800+ photos that everyone took at the party have already circulated.

Hellraiser

The halloween party was at the marine house last night, and it was the best ever! There's nothing like spending halloween with a bunch of drunken marines and crazy Polish people. There weren't as many people as last year, but that's ok cuz we could barely move at that party. It took two hours to apply the costume, not including the many hours I spent turning toothpicks into nails and a wooden cube into the Lament Configuration. Everybody loved the costume, so it was worth it. I had people I've never met before coming up to me all night to get pictures with them. And I won the best costume award. They gave me a little plastic trophy and 100 zloty, which I think just about covers the cost of the entire costume, so that's cool. When we got home I took a few photos for the flickr page, go check 'em out.

And for anyone who doesn't know, I was Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies. The Lament Configuration is a wooden puzzle box that opens a gateway to hell. Whoever solves the puzzle gets their soul dragged to hell by Pinhead. And they usually get ripped apart by hooks and chains. The pic above is from one of the movies.

3 Towns, 10 Days

My mom was here for 10 days, and since both her and Kim LOVE the Polish pottery, we went on a shopping spree. We stayed in Wroclaw for 4 days, with one of those days being an hour and a half trip to Boleslawiec, the factory town where all the pottery is actually made. We were just barely able to fit it all in the car. I can't even fathom a guess at how many pieces they made off with. I got a mug.

I also took my mom to Torun for 2 days. It's a nice little town that takes less than 3 hours by train. It is famous for it's gingerbread, which I've never been that into, but this stuff is pretty damn good. It's also famous for being the birthplace of Copernicus, which is pretty cool.

I put up some pics from Wroclaw on the Flickr page, and I'll be going through the Torun shots soon.

Legia Warszawa Hokej

Today was the first game for the Polish hockey league. Warsaw has a team and they were playing downtown so we thought it would be fun to go. It was only 10 zloty a ticket, so it was definitely some cheap entertainment. The place was tiny, probably only sat about 2-300 people, but the fans were nuts. They were screaming and chanting so hard that it sounded like 1,000 people in there. I can't imagine how it would've been if their team was actually any good. But they weren't. They really, really weren't. Apparently the coach doesn't make them practice passing, cuz damn did they ever suck at it. They only lost 4-1, so it wasn't too bad but it could've easily been much worse. I looked at their website when we got home and their record last year was 10-26, many of the loses were shutouts. They actually allowed 15 goals in two straight games. So I guess they're looking much better this season...

Crap!

Kim and I went running today, and after only 90 seconds or so, she screamed "EWW!!". So I look over and see a giant glob of bird shit on her chest.

I almost tripped and fell into an oncoming car I was laughing so hard. It was glorious.

New Pics

I put more photos on the Flickr page. I took a bunch while the guys were here, and I still have some more to go through, but most of them are up now. I won't really go into what we did while the boys were in town, since they're pretty much the only ones who read this thing anyways, but they seemed to have a pretty good time. Gdansk was really cool and the Red Bull X-Fighters event was awesome as hell. I would've bought a shirt, but they weren't cool enough to shell out 45 bucks on one. Now I gotta check to see if they've started demolishing the stadium yet.

I'll be finishing with the pics in the next couple of days, so keep an eye out. I think all I have left to go through are from the Gdansk shipyards where we took a pirate ship through the canals.

sigh

Well, after 10 days of fun and excitement, the boys are on their way back to the states right now. That is, unless they did something really bad and got detained during the 20 hour layover in Amsterdam...