I apologize for not posting last week; I have been busy as usual and sick on top of it. But I am still here, and I have more photos I hope to share with you soon.

And now, what you have all (probably not) been waiting for: photographic evidence of our nerdiness. After last Monday’s rambling post, Gil and I did indeed go hunting for our Halloween costumes and spent most of last week in between classes and shifts at work putting them together.

With hard work, determination, and a fair amount of help from my mother, we were ready for the Gutenberg Halloween party last Saturday night (Photo by our friend Abigail):

Later, I asked our friend Elizabeth to take some shots of our whole costumes, but this crazy character kept getting in the way:

… Until Batman used his ingenious mind to solve the problem, or at least hide it:

(The photographer also helped by moving Super-boy out of the frame. )

Some tidbits about our costumes and how we pulled them together:

Gil made his Batman cowl out of duct tape and plastic bags (he said he found this method online somewhere). Mom made the cape from fabric we bought,  he made the vest and bat symbol from some kind of crazy sky-diving uniform we found at St. Vinny’s. Oh, and his utility belt is strung with gold gift boxes, as you may be able to tell.

The basic components of my Poison Ivy costume were: green tights and a green shirt (both unaltered), a lacy green, long-sleeved, long-skirted, old-lady looking suit I found at St. Vinny’s, and an ugly fake potted plant from the same place. I cut the skirt short, deconstructed and reconstructed the suit jacket so it looks as you see it here, and then sewed ivy from the potted plant onto everything. Or, more accurately, my mom sewed ivy onto everything, because I ran out of time. Thanks, Mom!

As usual, more than half the fun of the whole thing was the creative process of designing and making our costumes. But wearing them was fun too. Especially since I got to wear mine to work on Sunday, which made the day quite enjoyable. Wearing a suit of ivy is a good conversation starter.

Gil and I have had few visitors to our little apartment since we got married—partly because we are so busy with work and school, and partly because everyone else we know seems to be too. (Such is life, right?)

But yesterday we had a couple of visitors who made our day much brighter. First, one of our good friends (also a classmate of Gil’s) came over to have breakfast and play Monopoly Deal with us. (Gil and I got this card game last year, and it’s been a tradition for us to play it with this particular friend of ours ever since.) I don’t have any pictures from his visit, but it was wonderful to have him over and spend time with him.

A little later, another friend came over to check out a little writing desk I was selling. (She ended up buying it. Yay! I love when furniture I love goes to a good home.) AND she brought her six-month-old son, who got just about as much attention from all of us as he could handle.

He and Gil are buds:

And here’s the little guy with his beautiful mama:

Needless to say, it was a good day. Here’s hoping we have the opportunity to visit with these and other friends much more in the future.