Halloween: Part II
On Monday... Halloween morning, I woke up pretty early. Jessica and I were on the shuttle by noon to get to the Ladies' Market and buy some Halloween costumes! Ever since I was little and my parents paid me 20 bucks to make my own costumes, I've usually looked pretty crappy on Halloween. I remember many years of hippies and ghosts, and even one year where I was a trash bag, and another where I wore some blue sweatsuit and matched my best friend at the time... I don't even know what we were supposed to be. This year though, I was going to be with some hardcore Halloweenies, and I needed to step it up.
We took the shuttle, and then the subway, and suddenly we popped up above ground in Mong Kok, in Kowloon. The Ladies' Market is just another HUGE Asian market. It specializes in things for ladies, although I saw some definite sports jerseys and some male leopard-print thongs. Aside from that there are clothes, scarves, shoes, jewelry, and more knockoff bags than you can imagine. They have huge catalogues of Vuitton bags and you can choose the bag that you want them to knock off! Unbelievable! I'll totally be back. For Jess and I, we were looking mostly in the clothing and accesory side of things. She was going to be Cruella DeVil, and I finally decided to be a gypsy, knowing that I had at least half of the costume already.
After about an hour of getting smushed by crowds, accosted by tiny asian ladies who wanted us to buy bags, and bargaining our butts off, we emerged with accessories. Jess had a black fur shawl, black and white fur scarf, fur earrings, red gloves, and my black dress. I bought a jingly chain belt, a colorful scarf, bangles, earrings, and a necklace. We were set! We stopped for some Pizza Hut and then headed home to get ready for the big night. By 6:15 we, along with fellow cast mates Friesia (my old crazy Southern roommate), Anissa (sister bertha), and Matt (Nazi youth) were in cabs heading to Lao Kwai Fong - our favorite party spot. Anissa had a pub crawl planned, and we were on a schedule.
We started with dinner at a diner/bar. Pancakes and vodka tonics started us out just right, and when we got back on the street we noticed a big change. The regularly busy party street had turned into a sea of people! As far as we could see the road was packed, flowing like a river of bodies. We were in a race to catch certain happy hours, so we pushed through. Suddenly, we were stopped by paparazzi! There were hundreds of professional men with huge cameras snapping away at our small (but excellently costumed) group. Then people from the surging crowd grabbed their cameras and started taking pictures too! We were eventually yelled at by the police to keep moving. We were swept to a Mexican bar, where we did some tequila shots before venturing to a nautical bar.
By the end of the night, we had hit those three, plus a champagne bar, an underground bar set up to look like an apartment, a German techno bar, a German pub, back to the diner for cheese sticks, an outdoor bar, and finally a Russian vodka bar. What a pub crawl! My fave was the Russian bar, where there was an actual ice room, made of blocks of ice, and kept at the temperature that vodka should be served at. You put on a fur coat that they give you, and you huddle inside and do shots while Russian people play instruments! It was awesome. After spending some time there meeting people and doing vodka shots (Friesia picked up some British guy who was a flight attendant) we were ready to call it a night. Matt left to go to a costume contest, and, dodging paparazzi, Friesia, Anissa, Jessica, and I hopped in a cab to get home. When we got home, suddenly we were in the 4th floor bar, eating french fries. I was shaking my chain belt until about 5am, when I finally fell into bed. Oh Halloween in HK - what an adventure!
We took the shuttle, and then the subway, and suddenly we popped up above ground in Mong Kok, in Kowloon. The Ladies' Market is just another HUGE Asian market. It specializes in things for ladies, although I saw some definite sports jerseys and some male leopard-print thongs. Aside from that there are clothes, scarves, shoes, jewelry, and more knockoff bags than you can imagine. They have huge catalogues of Vuitton bags and you can choose the bag that you want them to knock off! Unbelievable! I'll totally be back. For Jess and I, we were looking mostly in the clothing and accesory side of things. She was going to be Cruella DeVil, and I finally decided to be a gypsy, knowing that I had at least half of the costume already.
After about an hour of getting smushed by crowds, accosted by tiny asian ladies who wanted us to buy bags, and bargaining our butts off, we emerged with accessories. Jess had a black fur shawl, black and white fur scarf, fur earrings, red gloves, and my black dress. I bought a jingly chain belt, a colorful scarf, bangles, earrings, and a necklace. We were set! We stopped for some Pizza Hut and then headed home to get ready for the big night. By 6:15 we, along with fellow cast mates Friesia (my old crazy Southern roommate), Anissa (sister bertha), and Matt (Nazi youth) were in cabs heading to Lao Kwai Fong - our favorite party spot. Anissa had a pub crawl planned, and we were on a schedule.
We started with dinner at a diner/bar. Pancakes and vodka tonics started us out just right, and when we got back on the street we noticed a big change. The regularly busy party street had turned into a sea of people! As far as we could see the road was packed, flowing like a river of bodies. We were in a race to catch certain happy hours, so we pushed through. Suddenly, we were stopped by paparazzi! There were hundreds of professional men with huge cameras snapping away at our small (but excellently costumed) group. Then people from the surging crowd grabbed their cameras and started taking pictures too! We were eventually yelled at by the police to keep moving. We were swept to a Mexican bar, where we did some tequila shots before venturing to a nautical bar.
By the end of the night, we had hit those three, plus a champagne bar, an underground bar set up to look like an apartment, a German techno bar, a German pub, back to the diner for cheese sticks, an outdoor bar, and finally a Russian vodka bar. What a pub crawl! My fave was the Russian bar, where there was an actual ice room, made of blocks of ice, and kept at the temperature that vodka should be served at. You put on a fur coat that they give you, and you huddle inside and do shots while Russian people play instruments! It was awesome. After spending some time there meeting people and doing vodka shots (Friesia picked up some British guy who was a flight attendant) we were ready to call it a night. Matt left to go to a costume contest, and, dodging paparazzi, Friesia, Anissa, Jessica, and I hopped in a cab to get home. When we got home, suddenly we were in the 4th floor bar, eating french fries. I was shaking my chain belt until about 5am, when I finally fell into bed. Oh Halloween in HK - what an adventure!
posted by Beth at 11:53 AM
1 Comments:
you're going to be so BORED when you get back to the US!
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