Craig and Corrie's 80's Halloween Party

Last Friday, the 28th, we finally made it to a Ruppel Halloween bash. Knew it was coming and we would go, but in typical Garcia fashion, we waited until the day before to work on our homemade costumes. Holly was of course looking to dress up as the typical 80's chick with leg-warmers and pig tail on the side. My first thought was Ghostbusters, then Magnum PI (thought all i would need was a Hawaiian shirt and huge mustache. Then I thought about a Rubik's cube which lead me to Pac-Man. With Pac-Man, I thought Holly could be a ghost and she liked the idea. After a couple trips to Holly Lobby and Home Depot, we had what we needed and got to work.

Holly just bought about 6 yds of blue (Inky the ghost) cloth and sewed a loop along one end...did that to 2 different pieces of cloth. Then she just cut them into strips with her roller-BLADE...she came close to slicing off one of Tiger II's paws who kept attack her cloth. Pac-Man was made with 2 pieces of board cut into circles and the removed a piece of pizza from each. Used wire to sort of piece them together and spray painted it yellow. Used large sheets of construction paper to cover the front and a lot of staples from my staple gun.

Our hats off to Craig and Corrie for a great party. Played the name game, where a famous 80's character or person's name is taped to your back. You don't know who you are and you have to ask people Yes/No questions to try and figure out who you are. Took me a while, but I figured out I was Willis Drummond from Different Strokes. Holly took a bit longer but finally figured out she was Daisy Dukes from the Dukes of Hazzard. By the end of the night, the Ruppel's dog, Daisy, was wearing everyones name on her back. I never touched Craig's famous Punch of Death, but he and his friends and played some 80s tunes, and I had a pretty good idea what a Punch of Death felt like. Nyuck-nyuck.

Check out all our pics HERE. Here is Craig and his band playing Centerfold from the J. Giles Band...there are a couple more tunes on my YouTube page HERE. Oh and by the way...Pac-Man just BARELY edged out the Rubik's Cube to win the Best Costume Award! The prize? A bottle of Jose Cuervo Gold Margarita (Classic Lime). Holly was thrilled.