Bay to Breakers 2010

For the last four years, my husband and I have been wanting to get a group together to dress up for Bay to Breakers. Yet every year B2B sneaks up on us and we don't pull anything together in time. This year Jess and Mike convinced us to come out so we planned to use Saturday as costume making day. While we had the best intentions, Friday night we went out to celebrate Mayra's birthday and ended up having a little too much fun. (Welcome to the 31 club, Mayra!) Needless to say, Saturday was spent not moving on the couch and we accomplished absolutely nada costume-wise.

We still ended up going and threw together makeshift costumes. It was cold and I was sleepy so the most I could muster up were devil horns, a pitchfork and a water bottle filled with mimosas. We entered the course around 9 am at Van Ness and Hayes. First people we see were girls dressed up in hot dog on a stick uniforms with shorts that said "Everyone loves a weiner" on the back of them. That should have been our first clue as to what was in store for us.

This year there were A LOT of naked people. While I say more power to you if you want to let it all hang out, I also have to say that naked people + running = really bad visuals. Even worse? Sloppy drunk naked people. I knew I brought the pitchfork for a reason. As crazy as it got out there, it was definitely fun, especially since it's one of those "only in San Francisco" events. We ended our B2B adventures with brunch at Squat and Gobble on Haight Street and then Harry's on Fillmore for Bloody Marys. :)

Since I later discovered that there are naked people in the background of a lot of my pictures (and I'd like to keep my blog PG-13) here are my edited Top 6 costumes:


6) The Pope



5) Drunken Smurfs



4) Tea Party



3) American Gladiators



2) No on Prop 16!



1) Drunken garden gnomes



Next year we have to pull something together to celebrate the 100 year anniversary. Anyone have any ideas???