In New York City on Halloween Night there is a huge parade in ‘the Village’ (near Union Square) where there are some floats and a march of anyone who wants to can parade around in their costumes. We decided to go to this because everyone told us it was a very ‘New York Experience’- boy was it ever. We were packed in the streets (we were up front by the railings- but packed really tight) with about 3 million people (we learnt later). The parade was supposed to start at 7:00 but didn’t actually get going till after 8:00- but it was worth the wait (which we didn’t know at the time). There were crazy floats and even crazier costumes. I have decided that Halloween has become a time when men dress like women and women don’t dress at all- no one cares about scaring others anymore. There were MANY cross-dressers, very-mini skirts, uncomfortable looking high heals and Jason’s (the chainsaw massacre). There was a Gay and Lesbian section, a Circus float (I had to cover Ben’s eyes), a ‘We hate Bush’ section, ect. But there were also some cool and notable costumes- we saw a man in a trash can, a person getting eaten by a shark, the Ghost Busters (won 2nd place on the Today Show), Lego Heads and (Brea’s Personal Favorite) there was a huge group of people dressed up as Zombies who were dancing (in unison) to the Thriller by Michael Jackson (it was soo cool). There were also cool ‘float’ things, like huge skeleton things, flying things and such. There was defiantly a LOT to see.
It was mostly adults on the street (and we were up front) and Brea looked youngest out of all the adults we were huddled and jammed into, so she got picked on- A LOT. Dracula tried to bite her neck, she almost got chain sawed to death, scary people were always lurching after her, instead of candy she got condoms and shot glasses- it became the running joke with the people around us- that everyone picked on her (or gave her a condom- weird).
It was such a fun night- we saw a lot- both that we wanted and DIDN’T want to see (there was a whole group of people just wearing body paint- yuck!). We aren’t sure we would do it again- but it was defiantly a New York experience and we really enjoyed ourselves.
