Halloween 2005--- one to remember so I'm going to write it down...

Emily hooked Aurelie, Lara, and me with tickets to a vet Halloween party at Drop Kick Murphy's, an Irish pub.  Emily: The Pumpkin; Aurelie: The Witch; Lara: The Cat; Me: The Police Woman.  We met up with Mira from Norway: Puss 'n Boots.  My squad and I enjoyed ourselves and were joined by Kendra: The Schoolgirl and Dave and Jack: Girls- wigs, tights, painted nails and all.  Danced danced danced.  I got a photo taken with the ghost busters and met two other female cops.  Good times. 

On the walk home, around 1AM, Jake wanted to give me a tour of Grayfriers Cemetery.  I was a little apprehensive but I agreed.  The gate was closed but with a pull of a lever it crept open.  As we entered a tour was just ending.  The cemetery, I found out later, is in city centre right near the castle and is said to be VERY haunted.  It was a prefect night- creepy clouds hanging around- gray sky- big bare trees- and the illuminated castle sitting in the distance.  Jake took me around telling me spooky tales and trying to shake me up.  By time we made it around the huge lot my feet were killing me (giant black heels) and I was ready to leave...little did I know I wouldn't be taking them off anytime soon...when we made it back to the front gate it wouldn't open-- it was padlocked shut!  We stood there- me believing Jake was pulling my leg and Jake looking dumbfounded- me in my police uniform and Jake in his dress, wig, and cowgirl hat.  There was a flash--!  The cemetery security system was on and was taking periodic photos of the grounds...were we getting caught on tape?  The whole situation was unbelievable.  There we were in the centre of the city but the cemetery walls were so high that it felt like we were miles away from anyone.  So our hunt began for a reasonably sized wall to climb or fence to jump.  In the back far corner of the grounds we were in "luck"- I slid of my heels- climbed up over a fence- landed on a ledge- and skimmed down a 11 foot wall onto a staircase.  The two of us were confused...where were we?  University of Edinburgh Art School.  It was a well lit courtyard--  the main gate which was locked with an enormous padlock-- we were stuck again!  Jake tried to squeeze through the bars of the front gate but failed.  We started to seek out anything to climb up on to or over when over the loud speaker (yes, loud speaker) came a booming Scottish voice <blah blah blah something something GATE something>!  Jake and I looked at each other, "WHAT???  GATE??"  Everything was silent-- then after we tried all the doors into the buildings locking us in the courtyard the voice returned: <blah blah F**KING something something>!  The man was mad, really mad!  What were we to do?  We had NO IDEA where he was and how much he could see us.  Then I heard a phone in the distance.  Ringing.  Ringing.  It was faint.  The voice came back:  <something something>  "WHAT!?!" we yelled "WHAT DO YOU WANT??"  <ANSWER THE PHONE!>!!  Phone??  Phone?  We looked all around and then noticed an Emergency Phone box on the side of a building.  We rushed over to it, opened it, RING RING- yup- found it!  In a number of minutes, after Jake talked to the mystery man about our situation of getting locked in the cemetery, a car came whipping up to the gate- a man got out- "GO TO THE SIDE DOOR" Side door???  He opened a door- we rushed to it- and then he got into the car and drove off.  That was it-- left us speechless on the curb, until a guy in a blow up sumo wrestler costume came up and said, "woah, sexy cop...sexy girl thing...sexy cop...sexy girl thing"  So that was my adventure for Halloween 2005- Getting locked in the most haunted cemetery in Edinburgh with a "sexy girl thing" and having a creepy Big Brother experience. 

After parting ways with Jake I met two guys from Argentina-- the 3 of us talked economics and will hopefully do it again soon.  (okay I'm a geek, but really-- one was a cutie..)

Wow- what a night.

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I did have coffee last night after all-- with J (Jake), Kendra, and Dave.  We chatted about the cemetery adventure, philosophy, urinal etiquette, etc., as we lounged back listening to such beautiful music.  Great atmosphere.  Great coffee. 

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