Halloween Party

It's that day of the year when we can all dress up and be the horrific monster we hold inside.  Or for those of you more lighthearted we can be the cartoon character that we always wanted to be.  It's time for a Halloween Party!

I remember when I was a kid going to Sumiton Elementary School in Sumiton, Alabama we used to have a Fall Festival right before Halloween (we also had Christmas Parties and a really cool May Day).  I remember the Fall Festival as one of my fondest memories. 

I got to dress up and bring my little sister Tracy as well as my Mom & Dad (hey you had to have money) and go hang out in the gym at school.  We would walk around to the different little booths that they had set up and play the Halloween games that the PTA had wisely devised for us to spend our nickels & dimes on. 

I remember the bobbing for apples game and the fishing game as well as the one I dreaded as a short guy; the basketball toss.  But most of all I remember the student haunted house that was always set up in the boys locker room.  I can still hear the echos of the scary music, seeing the low lying fog from the dry ice, the headless dude, the vampire in a coffin, a  knife wielding Jason, Michael Myers, as well as the loud chainsaw dude in the shower stalls. Halfway through I went from amused to scared out of my wits. If you make it through there without being scared out of your wits you were lucky or demented.  I also remember the best part, DOING IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Now you know as a DJ I have to mention the Party aspect.  The coolest thing about the whole festival was getting to go into a Disco for the first time. Set in a hallway on the other end of the school.  Authentic mirror ball, black out light, and strobe lights.  The DJ was a high school kid stuck on Prince, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Ritchie.  I loved it because of course I got to dance with some of the hottest chicks in school that night.

I didn't know how to dance at first but I learned how to break dance and do the robot as well as the worm.  I loved the strobe because you didn't even have to know how to dance, just move and it made you look really weird.  We all glowed in the dark to the wonderful black lights as I danced with a tall girl that held me really tight throughout the entire ballad of "Truly".  She is the one that taught me how to hold a woman respectfully during a slow dance, watch the hands. LOL! 

As a parent I know my kids remember all  the parties they attended as they were growing up.  The best advice I can give you, is take part in their Fall Festival, their Halloween parties, and their school dances and they will never forget you. 

Make sure they have a great Panama City style DJ with a lot of heart. Hey, I know a great DJ for your next Halloween party. We wish you a really Scary Halloween.  Later, DJ PorkChop of www.DJPorkChop.com.