the hunt was on....

So I started looking for Eli a costume for Halloween. It's tough because you never know if it will be cold or warm at the end of October. Last year I got him a little warm up suit with a skeleton on it and he almost had heat stroke.
Anyway, I went to this random place in Plano called Cow Costumes. It was one of those places that someone sets up only during Halloween with a big inflatable Godzilla in front. What Godzilla has to do with Halloween, I don't know but it does grab one's attention.
So I go inside and I find a Yoda costume for Eli. I imagine with the way he walks right now, he would look darn cute in it. But the hope that maybe I would find something even cuter and the other two fly by night costume places I have seen stops me. So on I go without Yoda. The next place I go to is cool but doesn't have anything that I find cuter than Yoda. So I go to this place called Spirit Halloween. It has always had tons of costumes in the past so I figure it would have some cool stuff. It turns out it is set up in this old furniture store and the parking sucks. It takes me 10 minutes to find a space and it turns out to be right next to a girl who is sitting there in her car with her kids smoking a cigarette. I guess she is waiting for someone but Eli and I have the privelidge to inhale her second hand smoke while I get him out of the car and into a stroller. Good times.
We get inside and the only good thing I can say about it is that they had Halloween character pijamas for $5 each. The rest had been picked through or they didnt have much in stock. I was totally disappointed. So I went across the street to Party City and decided on a superman costume for Eli. He needed something that either had a hood or didn't require anything on his head because he will not wear a hat. Superman seemed like a logical choice and was in my price range. Well, apparently party city decided to only have two cashiers working on a Saturday night. I have twenty people up my butt asking me if I needed them to get a costume for me from the back but when it came to someone actually taking my money for it, they were nowhere to be found. I waited and finally put the costume back and left in disgust. Moral of the story, buy online. I didn't have anyone ignore me or try to cut in line or anything when I was sitting at my computer and Eli will look just as cute in the Hulk costume I bought him online as he would have in anything I bought him at the store. Next year, Eli will want to choose his costume and I may be stuck driving all over town or worse, Gulp, having to make something!
Now, if we can only do something about the weather and insure it will be not too warm and not too cool, we would be all set.
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