Our church ward opted out of doing a Halloween event this year, so we invited ourselves to another ward's Halloween event. We visited the Halloween Carnival put on by Matt & Kara's previous ward. That ward and two other wards who share the Arctic Chapel had an indoor Halloween trick or treating event yesterday in the early evening.
It was a well attended event. We started in the gym where there were some spooky Halloween booths set up. It was quite atmospheric. The kids went around and collected some candy and then we visited the rooms in the other areas of the church. Most of the rooms required that you "earn" your candy.
We visited two different cupcake walks. Jake would not participate on the first one, but he did on the second one. There were bean bag tosses, basketball hoops (both boys dropped the ball in the hoop on their first try), basket throws, and a fishing pond. A haunted hall was also set up, but we opted out. The trio is still quite young and as I said, the booths were spooky, so I figured the haunted hall might be a bit too much.
We saw a few friends along the way and donated a bag of candy to the cause. Since we were crashing the party it seemed like we ought to contribute something. On the way out we picked up a few hot dogs for the children (and one for opa) and then we headed home.
I asked the children if they liked this event or Trick or Treat Town better. Jake said he liked this one more. Bentley said he liked Trick or Treat Town better because he acquired more candy there. (I think their haul was about the same--20 to 25 pieces--at each place. Not a lot--thankfully!) Viva was munching away on her second hot dog, so she didn't comment.
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