zombies

for our last two nights out in kenya, we decided to do something a little different.. someone came up with the idea of dressing up like zombies on the saturday we arrived at ocean camp and that's exactly what we did!! now the local nakumatt isn't exactly as well equipped as sydney shopping centers for dress-up materials but we managed to find talcum powder, face paint crayons and cans of metal spray paint. after spending our saturday on the beach, we started getting ready in the late afternoon.. it was a pretty funny affair: ripping, cutting and burning old clothes to make them look completely derelict, back-combing and spray painting our hair to make big, tangled nests on our heads, covering ourselves in talcum powder, using the crayons to design our faces and the red spray paint as blood.. needless to say the poor camp kenya staff thought we were absolutely mental!! we hadn't even been there a full day and suddenly we were zombies!!

the boys returned from their city trip and were quite surprised at finding us already dressed up and ready to go so we proceeded to help them out with their outfits. david painted on a terrifying grin reminiscent of the joker in 'the dark knight', joe decided to go for a freshly-dead look using the red spray paint as blood and we all put in our ideas until only a few people were left un-zombied. we had a traditional camp kenya pre-drink session then set out to forty thieves where our arrival certainly didn't go unnoticed!! it was altogether a pretty crazy night.. i adore dress ups and was so glad that everyone got into it and had actually ended up looking so scary (:

i've gotta say it was a pretty funny sight to see hungover zombies emerging from tents the next morning, face-paint smudged and smeared, still in torn and tattered clothes..