Chicago Halloween Party at Redmoon Theater - 10/31/15

Chicago Halloween Party – 10/31/15

Halloween just happen to occur on a Saturday this year, so to celebrate I figured that we might have some fun by going to some party in Chicago.  I searched the internet and found this place called the Redmoon Theater.  I had no idea exactly what we were getting ourselves into, but it seemed sort of crazy and fun.

The Redmoon Theater was this giant warehouse that they transformed for Halloween.  The great thing was that everything was included in the ticket….all food and drinks and entertainment.  Outside they had these flame starters, bumper cars and food trucks.  Inside was crazy!  In the ‘lobby’ of the warehouse, they had couches for people to chill on, people walking around with appetizers, a lady dressed like Marie Antoinette with a table made to look like a skirt and donuts for you to eat, a guy driving around a Segway that looked like a chariot that played music and blew bubbles, and a guy on a giant bicycle dressed as a skeleton serving wine.  And that was just in the lobby.

The main room had videos and images projected on to the wall.  A DJ was playing music on this elevated platform.  They were blowing bubbles into the air from the ceiling.  There were several ‘bars’ set up around the warehouse to get drinks at.  At each bar they had popcorn and pretzels for the taking.  They had a masseuse, a temporary tattoo artist, a picture booth, a movie set where you could make your own movie clip, a dance floor, a couple of rooms with pillows to chill in and old school arcade games.

a couple of party goers making a movie

Fire breathers

Marie Antoinette's donut table dress

Gary getting a temporary tattoo

Old school arcade games

The warehouse

The lobby

There were ‘skeletons’ walking around with these giant red balloons on a string.  Up in the air, near the balloon was a platter.  If you wanted an appetizer, the skeleton would pull the balloon down with the platter and you would get your appetizer and then they would put the balloon back up in the air.

At one point, me and Gary were just walking around when all of a sudden this girl yelled at me to “kneel down to be forgiven for my sins”. There was this kneeling bench like what they have in Catholic churches.  I knelt down and she asked me what I was sorry for.  Then, there was this other girl standing inside of this metal cage that used a blow torch to roast a marshmallow.  She handed the roasted marshmallow to the girl that ‘yelled’ at me to kneel.  The girl took the marshmallow, made a S’more out of it, handed it to me and told me that I was forgiven of all my sins and to go in peace.

Around midnight or 1am, they brought out this big slide onto the dance floor.  People were going nuts wanting to slide down it!

The angel roasting my marshmallow

The big kid's slide

Selfie

Everyone was dressed up and the costumes were amazing.  We were dressed up as a German couple and every time we ran into another guy or girl dressed up as a German person we shouted and hugged.  The funniest was when we were walking through the crowd and ran into this black guy in leiderhosen.  He was like, “Hey!” and gave me a big hug.  It was like we were long lost family members!

Around 1:30 we were spent.  We decided to use Uber instead of a taxi because we figured it would be cheaper and we didn’t want to take the red line because we really weren’t in that great of a neighborhood.  Walking the dark streets in German costumes probably would have made us a target. Lol.  It was pretty funny because no one was taking a taxi, everyone was using Uber.  And since there were so many people waiting for their ride, the Uber users were shouting out people’s names.  “Craig??? I’m here for Craig?”…..””Sara…..Sara?”.  We ended up walking up the block to get out of the crowd and I texted our ride to let him know we were in German costumes.

Anyway, Carlos, our Uber driver, picked us up with no problems and we made it back to our hotel around 2am.  It was a fun and crazy party!  I might have to do the Redmoon theater again next year!