On the last Saturday in October in Tampa (actually Ybor City), we celebrate Guavaween which is Tampa’s Latin version of a Halloween Mardi Gras.  Throughout the night, young and old parade the streets in slutty creepy outlandish costumes.  Anything goes on Guavaween night and great time to get your freak on!  

Guavaween will always have a special spot in my heart.  Dressed as a Brownie on a cold Guavaween night thirteen years ago, I traded Girl Scout cookies for beer and met my husband.  Our eyes met across a smoky bar and it was truly love at first sight.  He says my smile entranced him, but more than likely it was the cookies hanging out my shorts and my belted fishnets I squeezed into poured out of that caught his attention.  

This year, approximately 35, 000 people dressed in their best Halloween attire crammed the streets of Ybor City last Saturday night; however, my DH, my friends and I were not one of them.  Rather than tramping it along the streets of Ybor City, we recreated our own freaky fun with our second annual Adult Halloween party.    As previously posted in A Scary Thought, I wanted to plan a couple costume.  Some ideas we mulled over…  

• The Swing Vote- Allan in a zoot suit and me dressed as a flapper.
• Dorothy and the Scarecrow
• Pirates

But, we weren’t really sold on any of those ideas.  Then, we went to Sea World’s Halloween Spooktacular and found our inspiration from one of the many characters we saw that day: an entomologist and a butterfly.  

Just call me Mary Posa!  I believe this entomologist caught himself a fine specimen!   

  Who wants a butterfly kiss?  

It just goes to show you that you can take the girl out of Guavaween, but you can’t take the Guavawen out of the girl.    

Happy Guavaween!