My kids’ high school has some fairly awesome traditions. They have a great Spirit Week prior to Homecoming, which all the kids seems to love participating in. They have the kids make time capsules in 7th grade, to be opened at the end of their senior year. But perhaps the one thing they all look forward to the most is the senior costume contest.
On the last day prior to Halloween (today), seniors only get to wear Halloween costumes to school all day. The crazier, the better. They can go with an individual costume or do a group theme. At the end of the day, seniors are called to an assembly. Every participant (from what I could tell, that was 95% of the senior class) goes onstage in the auditorium and tells what their costume is. Some of them have little skits or routines prepared to show off their theme, even. Parents are invited to come and take photos, and they select several moms and several teachers to be judges for the contest. At the end of the day, they announce overall winners and give awards for most original and so on.
Allie’s friend K. had what I thought was a legendary idea: Super Smash Brothers. And because K and Allie are members of the marching band, which has 130 members, they had no trouble getting participation in their group. In fact, about 22 or 23 kids dressed as characters from Super Smash Brothers. It was awesome. Allie dressed as Link (from Zelda). I wish I could have gotten a group shot, but I decided to go for videos instead. Fortunately, a friend of mine had her DSLR camera there and was taking pictures of every participant just before they came off the stage, so I should be able to get a copy. But when Allie walked up to the mike and said, “We’re the Super Smash Brothers . . . and we’re gonna brawl!” I almost lost it. Totally cute.
In addition to Allie’s group, I saw characters from Alice in Wonderland, the Smurfs, Pac Man (those kids had built structures around themselves that were about 5′ w x 6′ h!), a Lego man, vampires, a barbershop quartet who sang, and 4 girls dressed as trophies (gold from head to toe, and they posed as an Emmy, a running trophy, a ballet trophy, and . . . . I can’t remember the other one, dang it). We also enjoyed a performance of “ABC” from the Jackson 5, and laughed our a**es off when one of the football players came onstage dressed in a cheerleading skirt and a blond wig and led a well-known cheer for the audience in a high-pitched squeal.
Can’t wait to see this again in a couple of years when Molly hits the big time!
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