With 1 week to go before Halloween, and with the dragon costume no where near completion, I decided to make a quickie Planet of the Apes costume. I was excited about the new Tim Burton one coming out the next summer. Aparently no one else had even heard about it though, because everyone kept saying "Oh, look, it's a monkey-man!" and their friends would say "No, I think he's from that old movie 'Monkey Planet' or something like that" Damn uncultured swine!!!

Me applying the ape makeup. In retrospect I should have painted more detail. Ant not use slip Latex.... It DOES NOT breath like foam latex would have. By the end of the night the latex adhesive was falling off from all the sweat, and the jaw didn't want to stick anymore. And, my face was so bright red and rashy, it took weeks to heal.

We went to a costume contest at Canyon Breeze, and raph won $100 for first place. My costume actually suffered from looking too good. People thought it was just a monkey mask that I had bought at the store. They were always supprised when Sara told them that I made it myself. Incase any of you are planning on going to Canyon Breeze, DON'T. They were assholes. We were hungry, so we got a table and started looking over the menu. The waitress came over and started checking ID's. Everyone showed their ID, but since Eric wasn't 21, they told him he had to sit in the children's section on the other side of the resteraunt. That was bad enough, but then they got to me.... I showed them my ID, and they asked me to take my mask off to verify it was really me. I told them them it was glued on, and therefore I couldn't take it off. "That's alright I said, I just won't drink" "No!" they said, "If we can't see your face, you have to sit in the kid's section" "I asked for the manager, who was a little nicer, but still insisted I sit in the children's section. I told him if I couldn't sit with my friends, we weren't going to stay. He finally found a table that was 1/2 in the adult section and 1/2 in the kids section, so we stayed. But we never went back there, and never will.