Photo of Grey's Anatomy cast courtesy of www.sodahead.com
"We were watching it while trying to think of something we could all be because Halloween was coming up," Kristy said. "Then it hit me that it would be a great idea to be the ladies of Grey's, because there are a lot of characters and we all love the show."
The easy part was coming up with the idea. The hard part was figuring out what roommate would play each character.
"We tried to match people based on their personalities and body types," Brittni said.
This sounds like a pretty easy and reasonable way to pick characters. But, of course, we ran into problems. Some people complained because they didn't like how she acted on the show or they did not think they looked like that character enough. However, we got over the third grade drama and began acting like 21 and 22-year-old adults by all reaching a compromise.
Kristy was put in the spotlight as the main character, Meredith Grey. Brittni's tendency of being bossy landed her the role of Chief Resident, Miranda Bailey. The character of Izzie Stevens was handed to Sara because of her blonde hair and blue eyes. Anne was the last one to pick a character, so she was stuck with the new intern, Lexie Grey. Kellie's almost reddish hair and love for kids were reasons she just had to be former OB/GYN, Addison Mongomery-Shepherd. Taylor's light features were the closest to heart surgeon, Erica Hahn. Sara's sister from OSU, Kim, wanted to be Cristina Yang, even though she didn't really have any of the same characteristics. And I would be Callie Torres solely because of my dark features.
After that fiasco was thankfully over, it was time
to gather up all of the materials. We scrambled all over the town of Athens finding the supplies for our costumes. Our first priority was, of course, scrubs. How could you be members of Grey's Anatomy without scrubs? Sara and her sister ordered official Grey's Anatomy scrubs Online. The others, however, were not willing to spend around 50 dollars for scrubs, so we opted for the cheaper Medline brand at Wal-mart. And what would a doctor be without her stethoscope? Kellie and Kristy went to Halloween USA to find fun medical accessories to dress up the scrubs. And me being the creepy blogger that followed their every move, decided to accompany them. My roommates got a lot of laughs at my expense.
The 20 minute trip evolved into a two hour excursion through the streets of Athens. The stethoscopes were not nearly enough for these Grey's fanatics. We had to stop at Wal-mart to get clipboards because "all of the Grey's characters always carry around clip boards and it looks so professional." Then, it was off to Staples to hopefully find the exact name tag holders that the characters use in the show. After ten minutes of pretty intense contemplation in the dimly lit aisle of Staples, Kristy decided that we needed the more expensive, retractible name tags because doctors need those to scan into work, well at least that is what the Grey's doctors do.
Kristy scopes out the name tag selection at Staples
And what is a trip to State Street without visiting the good ol' Dollar Tree? When you are a college student, you can't find a better store than one that sells everything for only a dollar! The purpose of the trip was to find those old toy pagers; however, apparently those are so outdated and the toy aisle was only lined with toy mobile phones. The trip did not turn out to be a total disappointment. Kellie found the perfect shade of ruby red lipstick that was just "so Addison."
Kellie and Kristy comparing shades of lipstick
The trip was a success. However, the shopping was only step one. It was now time for my roommates to bring out their creative sides and transform these supplies into their Grey's Anatomy costumes.
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