Cheeseburger Halloween

I think it's safe to say that Halloween is the favorite holiday of Los Angeles. In a town full of millions of actors and other creative types, a designated day of dress up is THOROUGHLY enjoyed and celebrated.  As seems to be the norm pretty much everywhere, girls generally like to use this holiday as an excuse to dress like total and complete skanks.  I, on the other hand, have started to dress as food items the last couple years. My extremely talented friend, Marissa, made herself an a-maz-ing cheeseburger costume last year, and the minute I saw a photo of it on facebook, I called dibs for this year (if she didn't choose to repeat it herself). Luckily, she made herself an adorable cupcake costume this year, so the cheeseburger was mine!  Since Halloween fell on a Monday, that allowed for a few solid days of celebration. Here are the parties I attended:

Friday, October 28th

 I kicked off Halloween weekend at the W hotel.  When my sweet old friend Trent (pictured here) invited me, I asked "I'm going to be a cheeseburger...is that appropriate for the W?" to which he replied "Yes. That will be amazing." I was still a bit wary about how the costume would be received, but I'm happy to say it was a huge success.  Several people came up to me to tell me that if there was a costume contest, I would have won. Cha chiiiing. 

The genius creator of the cheeseburger, Marissa, joined me at the party! We literally have no idea who this rhinoceros is who jumped into our photos.Oh, halloween...:-)

The DJ was great! I wish I could have seen my evolution of dance throughout the evening.  I started out getting used to my range of motion in the burger, so I was just awkwardly moving my arms a bit... then I realized I could move a bit more... and before I knew it, I was a full-out dancing machine. (And here I am dancing the night away at the bottom center of this photo... hahah. Awk.)

What's the perfect place for a cheeseburger to get a post-party snack? Chick-Fil-A, of course. :-)

Saturday, October 29th

I planned to wear my old reliable Wonder Woman costume on Saturday, but after the great success of the cheeseburger from the night before, I decided it needed a repeat.  And as fate would have it, my friend Ivy didn't have a costume at the 11th hour, so she got to wear my lovely Wonder Woman gear! Here we are pre-partying at Jinah's place (the creepy black shadow creature behind us) for Bootie LA. 

It was Garrett's first time at Bootie! He liked it, naturally.

This group of extremely accurate real-life LA food trucks very deservedly won 1st place in the costume contest. Very impressive!

Monday, October 31st, part1

The Warner Bros. Halloween party was on the the set of True Blood, which even though I don't watch that show, I think was the coolest setting for a Halloween party. My boss encouraged me to wear the cheeseburger again, and since I was a huge fan of it by this point, I obliged. My coworkers (like my lovely darling Katie pictured here) rather enjoyed my costume as well.

I was afraid I might be one of the only ones to dress up, but I most definitely was not. These people went all out. Here's a small portion of those who participated in the costume contest, most notable being the male Princess Leia on the left and the Lord of the Rings "Occupy Mordor" group on the right. Hahah.

Cheeseburgers for the cheeseburger. (and Merlottes from True Blood behind me).

Monday, October 31st, part 2

The hilarious newlyweds, Bradley and Kiersten, live in a legit house in a quaint neighborhood in Sherman Oaks, so they invited some friends over for drinks/desserts and to hand out candy to the trick-or-treaters. 

This is a repeat from my 8:11 highlights post, but it's so great, I felt it bears repeating. One of the trick-or-treaters was french fries! I was so excited to meet my adorable little costume counterpart. :-) 

As you can see, I put that cheeseburger costume to very good use.  I'm already brainstorming what food item I should be next year.  Any suggestions? 

xoxo, 

Annie