Halloween

Every Halloween - with a possible exception of a Halloween he was at his father's - Vincent has trick-or-treated from our house - even last year. But this year - hours after the Danes left - he went with friends (including one friend who he later started dating) and small children from where his former Danish host had stayed in October. But we saw none of this (and we had only two trick-or-treaters on Halloween night). Most of what I saw of Halloween was during the day - at work! A couple of years before I started working at the Center Center staff put pictures on the Web site of the Center's then more elaborate Halloween activities - with kids coming, decorated candy stations in every department, groups of Center employees and some of their kids traipsing through the whole Center, and then costume competitions for Center employees and their kids. Some Presbyterians were offended - either that we were doing on this on work time and/or that we were celebrating Halloween at all. And that was the origin of our Intranet (so that we could share some things - like those photos - more just internally). I traipsed through the building with some of my colleagues my first couple of years at the Center, but this time just took pictures of some of them (plus watched a little of the costume competition). Pictured above is my colleague Joelle. Below is Hilary, Becki, and Jonathan.


Below is Susan.

And all four of them - in a blurry picture . . .

And my former turtle-sitter, Ida, putting the finishing touches to the decorations around our department's candy station.

Here's Christy - who put together most of that candy station - as Spiderman's mother.

Below is our former colleague, Jamie, with two of her daughters, plus her Mom, Linda, who still works at the Center (families abound at the Center).

Below, Ida and Jamie share a laugh.

-- Perry