'Tender Lumplings Everywhere, Life's No Fun Without a Good Scare'

Halloween, like many occasions, is a time of year when literally and figuratively you reap what you sow. It was in Washington D.C. that we decided to be Jack and Sally from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. Several small stops along the way including the International Lingerie Department in the aforementioned Unclaimed Baggage Store, an Alabaman craft store (burlap is not easy to come by), and Josette's in Biloxi, Mississippi all fed into what was sure to be a fantastic evening to remember...

We spent the entirety of our first day in New Orleans, save breakfast at a French bakery working on our costumes, and as the following pictures will show, it was well worth it in the end!

I have a feeling that if the original Spartans looked like this, there never would have been a battle to begin with!

I love this pic.

All of these wonderful getups and I can't seem to look past the Couzis!

The really funny thing is that this is easily the best costume I've ever donned for Halloween, but in New Orleans it merely blended into the crowd!

Riding in style to the quarter.

At one point someone said that there was another Jack and Sally making the rounds about Frenchman St., but one look at us and they must have slunk away in shame!

If you think this Kermit and Piggy are sweet, you should have seen the Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker later in the evening!

This Persian obviously didn't know who we were rolling with.

Before...

Yeah... I'm smiling here because I haven't figured out that I lost my wallet in the cab home yet.
(I was reunited with it the following week)

More New Orleans in the next few days!