Well, I’ve been up for about an hour now and its very clear to me that partying until the early hours of the morning (3.30am by the time I got to bed to be exact) just doesn’t agree with this old body of mine anymore. I’ve got a pounding heading from the small amount of alcohol I drank last night (two very strong vodka, bitters and lemonades), I’m still slightly deaf from the music at the club, my voice is as rough as anything and well, I’m ready to get back into bed for the rest of the day! ha ha.

Leah had a friend, also from Aus but currently living in Dublin, come to stay with her this weekend so she thought we should hit the town on H-night. I’ve always wanted to do something for Halloween but it never seems like I’ve got anyone interested in dressing up with me or I’m never organised enough to sort something out for the night.

Both Leah and I ordered some costumes online at the last minute, from separate websites, as getting to a costume store was going to be difficult but unfortunately neither of our costumes arrived despite the both of us paying for priority postage. I should have looked like the pic on the left (well not so sexy and most definitely with fatter thighs and chunkier legs) but instead of my going as a Vixen Vamp I just went as ordinary me. 🙁 Still, we were all set for a night out so a lack of costume wasn’t going to stop us.

We all got ready at Leah’s house with a few drinks and Leah knocked up some pizzas and munchies for us to snack on. Lauren was the only one of us whose costume actually turned up and though she was reluctant to be the only one out of the four of us wearing a costume we finally convinced her that everyone but us would be dressed up and that we’d be the odd ones out!

To get into the spirit of things though we all had a go with her witchy hat:

We were having so much fun at Leah’s house that it wasn’t until nearly 11.00 that we actually left to head out to a club! Getting on the tube I was so jealous of all the people in their supercool costumes – it seemed that most people were sticking to the Halloween theme of Michael-Jackson-Thriller-Esque zombie looks and we got Lauren to pose with a few of the punters. The guy in the end picture was particularly scary:

We finally decided that we were up for yet another cheeesy night out so we headed to Inferno’s in Clapham. The last time I was here was a party bus back in 2006 so its been a while since I’ve visited this notorious venue. There are two floors for dancing with the ground floor dance floor having a stage for live performers. We started upstairs but though it was relatively busy it didn’t have the atmosphere that the ground floor and its stage had.

Back downstairs Caroline got us as close to the stage as possible so we could check out Signature (from Britain’s Got Talent) doing their MJ impersonation.

I couldn’t believe how pushy people were being just to get a view of the stage! It was crazy. We stayed out on the dancefloor for a few hours (and my feet are still killing this morning by the way! )The music wasn’t too bad playing a mix of older cheesy tunes and current top 50 hits. Unfortunately the DJ seemed to repeat a few particularly anthemy type songs which was the only annoying aspect. The rest of the time he did a pretty good job on their remixes.

One minor drawback to going out on Halloween though … you just don’t know what’s lurking under all those costumes – hard to tell if someone is hot or not! 😉

Great night out!h