Pleep Celebrates All Hallows Eve

Halloween is one of Pleep's favorite holidays.  The concept of costumes, free candy, and rowdy behaviors is right up his alley.  He started celebrating early this time with the pumpkin carving and costume contests at the local pub.  Pleep and Delete were very impressed with the pumpkin carving skills of everyone from children to adults.  

Ed would not allow Pleep to actually handle any of the sharp implements or carving tools, especially after the beer consumption.  It didn't bother Pleep he just made his way around to all the tables and gave them his opinion oh how to improve their pumpkins.

Pleep had a great time hanging out with all the costumed people as well.   Delete was a bit concerned a number of times as Pleep tried to award prizes because several of the individuals in question did not actually have costumes on - it was their normal attire.  

The aging Harley Davidson tatooed crowd blended in nicely with the costumed crowd.   The favorite group of the night was the cross dressing bikers.  There was a debate as to whether they looked more like Fred Flintstone or John Belushi in drag. 

Everyone had a great time and all the girls were very interested in hanging out and hugging Pleep. Delete thinks they must just prefer the cuddly monkey to the more manly moose.   There were people dressed up as dodo birds and even the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.  Pleep was the only monkey there.  As such, he felt he deserved the prize but didn't feel too bad because the winners were the Alice in Wonderland family.  The little girl from that group spent a nice time with Pleep so he felt she deserved the prize. Of course his favorite person of the night was the waitress who not only looked good in her costume but continued to bring the beers all night.

Maggie Murphy and her boyfriend Creighton Deasy showed up to help celebrate the rest of Halloween weekend.  Pleep was very impressed with Creighton because he was a brewmaster.  His knowledge of the art and science of brewing made for great discussions.  Of course Delete thinks the fact that Creighton showed up with a large amount of his own brews may have swayed Pleep's opinion a bit.  Maggie and Creighton were given a nice introduction to the finer establishments in Daytona Beach Shores, including the Shores Festhaus (commonly referred to as the surfer bar).  The Festhaus has an impressive selection of beers on tap and in bottles.  We did our best to sample as many as possible.   Maggie was very pleased to find one of her favorites there, Hoptoberfest.    Delete ordered up the beer that most reminded him of Pleep's fantasy baseball/football management style - Arrogant Bastard Ale.

The festivities ended up back at the Deck Down Under where everyone enjoyed the intercoastal views.  Maggie ordered up a bucket of Kalik's and Pleep insisted we send a picture to sister Allison to make her jealous.  We are very sure that Maggie and Creighton will be happy to return to Daytona in the future.  After all, what is there not to like about hanging at the beach, enjoying nice weather, good company and good food and drinks.

We are already planning next year's Halloween adventure and hope to actually have costumes of our own to don.