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Saturday’s expedition was the Seafair Torchlight 5k, where Mom, Dad, Rhys, Carol, Courtney and Aaron went as pirates, and I was the calamari that was running away from them. We got second in the group costume contest, beaten by people dressed up as the characters from Pirates of the Caribbean.

The mantle is made of tie-dyed cloth stretched over a paper and wire frame, while the tentacles are a wire frame inside a stuffed cloth tube that was also tie-dyed. Amazingly, we made almost the whole costume in one day. 

Apparently I lied when I stated that the tongue would be next, for we have decided instead to flesh out the head with the standard cloth mache. The other side and the top of the head are looking good as well, but are not as far along as this side. While placing the cloth down though, we got an idea and covered up part of the eye so that it would look like the dragon was angry.

Next we plan to work on the neck and finish off the head.