Zombie Apocalypse!!!!....oh, just Halloween.

Cheap, last-minute Halloween costume= torn up clothes and make up

PERFECT!!!

My mom is such a sweetie! She loves to make holidays special for our family. She's always doing such nice things for us. This year, she sent me a little treat bag filled with our traditional Halloween caramel corn and some fun-size candy bars. 

 There was a DC area YSA Halloween dance the Friday before Halloween. I was talking with my friend from church, Karen, asking what she was going as. This was on a Tuesday, after Institute class. It was so funny because she said her and Vanessa (her roommate, my other friend) were going as zombies. She invited me to do the same and go with them. The funny thing is, that I was talking about it with Vanessa just a few moments later when I ran into her, and she said she didn't know what they were going to be yet. We planned for zombies, though I knew Vanessa wasn't too into it, but it was simple and cheap for me, so I was fine with it. Friday night, about an hour before I was supposed to meet at there apartment, Vanessa texts me and said they decided to go as Two-Face from Batman. Of course, I'd been excited all week about going as a zombie all, and I'd already ripped up one of my only T-shirts I had out here, so there was no way I was backing out on the zombie apocalypse. Dani came with us, and it was just a good time. We all looked great!

Dani was a 50's chick

Karen and Vanessa's roommate, Victoria, went as Kim Kardashian and got her friend to go with her as Kanye West. haha! She totally looks like a Kardashian. She could pass for an Armenian any day, and it's funny because she just got back in June from serving her mission there. Everyone thought she was a local.

Me and Vanessa at their apartment, Crystal Towers, before the dance

So the dance was actually up in Bethesda, Maryland. We all accidentally parted ways once we got there, and I didn't see Karen and Vanessa the whole night. I ran into Sam, and I just met a bunch of his friends and we all talked and hung out the whole time. Dani kept coming and asking me to go dance with her, but I didn't want to. I felt bad because she had wanted so badly to maximize her dance time. We left almost an hour later than I told her we would to go to the dance, and she wasn't having much fun and ended up leaving the dance about an hour after we got there. She caught a ride with some people from our ward. 

I met a lot of fun people that night. One of Sam's friends, Melanie Mitchell, is into dancing, and I’ve stayed in touch with her. We’ve gone out dancing at a place called The Salsa Room, and she’s cut my hair. That’s what she does for a living, cuts hair. I went with her to a waffle party up in Chinatown a couple of Sundays ago. She’s a great girl, and I’m so glad we’re friends. She reminds me a lot of Joan Staheli, one of my mom’s close friends back home. She looks so much like her; could easily pass for her daughter. I’m excited to go dancing with her sometime in Utah when she comes to visit home. We have black light Zumba plans here when she gets back from Thanksgiving in Utah. Can't wait!

Oh, so since I hadn't seen my girls all night, when the dance was over, and they still hadn't materialized despite my efforts to locate them multiple times, I was convinced they'd left me. haha! Come to find out after we'd been united that Karen had been up since 5am and had gone out to her car to sleep, and Vanessa was in the middle of the dance floor most of the time so I never saw her on my strolls about the perimeter, and it was too loud for her to realize I'd called. 

It was a great Halloween! :D