#10 Highball Halloween

After a two week hiatus...I'm back!  I know, I know...you missed me.

#10 on the journey is.....the Highball Halloween 5K.

The Highball Halloween is a 2-day affair held on High Street in Columbus.  The street is closed off for several blocks and boasts a 5K, a fashion show, a costume contest, food and drinks.  What more could you want?

Costumed attendees swarm to the area.  There were Pirates, Zombies, Pirate-zombies, Zombie-pirates and so many "Waldos", that is was important to note where Waldo was NOT, rather than where Waldo was. 

Characters from the movies and TV shows abounded.  Top Gun, Minions, Gilligan's Island, Coneheads, Scooby-Doo, Star Trek, Fraggle Rock, Tele-tubbies, X-men, Black Swan, the Griswold's (from Family Vacation) and my personal favorite, the Muppets featuring Beeker and Dr. Bunson Honeydew. 

Super heroes were everywhere....Batman, Batgirl, Robin, Superman, and a bunch of guys in capes that I didn't recognize.  Other off the wall costumes included boxes of cereal, a mammogram machine, Shark-nado, a disco ball, a loofah, beer bottles, a pair of door-to-door Mormons, and firefighters.  No wait, The firefighters were real.

Some women use this particular holiday to wear their skimpiest outfits and parade as a prostitute.  Men put on a maroon suit, act like an asshole and call themselves "Ron Burgandy".  Hey, whatever works, my friend.

The best group costume can best be described this way....

There were 12 of them.  All dressed in blue dresses and straw hats.  They stood in 2 straight lines.....the youngest one was Madeline.  They were great.  

We arrived late. So late in fact that the registration table had been dismantled and no one could tell us where to start the race.  Finally, one organizer told us the route to take.  He warned us that the police would stop supporting the race and traffic would return to normal in about 5 minutes, but we could go if we wanted to...just stay on the sidewalk.  Then he told us to eliminate the bike path portion of the route because "you shouldn't be there at this time of night...especially alone."
("Stay clear the moors" starts to run through my head.)  So we opted to NOT do the 5K. 

We immediately ran across the finish line and gathered our priceless drink tickets and finisher's medal and preceded into the party. The hot chocolate with bourbon was over-rated, but the apple cider with rum was a winner.  The fashion show was over-the-top.

Because we chose to NOT walk the 5K, I walked a 5K with Pam, two days later.  Hey, it counts.  I got the finisher medal, the t-shirt and remember, you are not the boss of me.