The night air had a crisp chill and the streets crawled with costume and shenanigans as Carlsbad again came to life, and death, during another Halloween weekend in the Village.
Local pubs remained packed with libation and horror. Ghostly growls were accompanied by hiccups and headaches. Monster tunes echoed into the streets and candy wrappers tumbled amongst Autumn leaves.
Boar Cross’n is always a favorite Halloween visit due to a recently revamped live music schedule and the annual costume contest. Like anxious salmon fighting the current of a gushing river, zombies and half naked school teachers worked their way through the outside line, against the fog cloud within and towards the main stage.
The stage dripped with sweat and blood as the Oceanside Sound System scared the eyes and soothed the ears of the crowd with a high energy and crowd engaging performance early into the first hours of November.
Through-out the night little red tickets were given out as best costume nominations and invitations to climb up onto the stage to be pelted with applause and hoots from the crowd, ultimately securing one costume as the year’s best and recipient of the $1000 1st place prize. With a very narrow lead, Sub Zero pulled away as the winner, with Forrest and Jenny in 2nd and some Sesame Streetesque monsters in 3rd.
The stories of another Halloween weekend in the Carlsbad Village are still fresh enough to share and the many photos still prompt laughter, but the costumes have been packed up, pumpkins have been tossed and ideas for next year’s costumes are abrewin’.
What were your favorite costumes?
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Do you know who was taking pictures of everyone that night? There was a guy with an expensive camera doing the pictures, was that you? I was sub-zero and have been looking forward to seeing how all the photos turned out.