Sheep and giraffe and princesses, oh my!

This evening First Pres held it's second annual children's Halloween festival.  Last year I participated by helping with set-up and running one of the games.  The game I oversaw involved pingpong balls being tossed into little red buckets.  It also involved lots of balls missing the buckets and bouncing all over the floor. After chasing bouncing balls for a little while last year I decided to change the rules of the game.  In addition to getting one piece of candy for trying and one for each ball they got in a bucket, they got an additional piece for picking up the balls.  This year our youth pastor was refering to it as the "Luci" and encouraging everyone to bribe the littles to pick up.  He also made sure each of us (we were a lot of senior citizen volunteers) had a chair so we weren't standing for the whole two hours.  All in all it was an easy evening of watching costumed children have a good time and take home lots of candy.  I enjoyed seeing the costumes. There were several princesses, a tiny incredible hulk, a little wooly sheep, a giraffe and a wonder woman among others.  All great fun and everything a children's Halloween party should be.  The only thing missing was bobbing for apples and that would have just made for a lot of soggy costumes.