Thought CHCers were all SERVICE and no GAMES?

Chicago Health Corps gets Tricky for Halloween

post written by CHC Member, Sydney W.

We CHCers were pretty tricky last Friday at our Halloween-themed in-service.  It all started when a ninja walked into the 6^th floor conference room at PHIMC, luckily it soon identified itself as Lisa-Sun.  The tricks continued that evening at our Service event at the Irving Park YMCA’s Trick or Trunk Halloween Carnival.  Our resident ninja Lisa-Sun found another resident ninja, James, and they both headed over to the haunted pagoda to do some more tricking (apparently Ninja James gave Sana quite a fright).  

 

Ninja James and Ninja Lisa-Sun warming up for their night of tricking

Included by special request of Ninja James.
It does more justice to his ninja stealth.



Even the car we used to pass out candy to the Trick or Trunkers was acting tricky- was it a Subaru dressed up as a truck or a truck dressed up as a Subaru?  Those stationed outside passed out candy to princesses, Buzz Light Years, pimps, Yoda, Pebbles from the Flintstones, kids who had forgotten their costumes, parents who’d forgotten their kids...

 

Alina, Nina, Sana, Sydney, and Jessica manning the Trick or Trunk station.  Note Sana caught mid-act.

 

Alina and Sydney stand by as Jessica with her scary mask creeps out from the trunk to give children candy



 

Who says girls can’t get kookie even if they aren’t in the Kookie Carnvial!



Although the Kookie Carnival was not passing out cookies, as the name suggests if you pronounce it wrong, it was definitely pretty kookie.  With kids running around and CHCers running around after them, it helped CHCers practice what they preach by incorporating fitness into everyday, non-traditional fitness activities.





Karen getting’  Kookie at the Kookie Carnival



Spiderman loves to bowl. Who new?!

Shermaine helping out at the bowling lanes.

Mickey, our Master of Registration



Too much Kookie for Maggie? Assertive Ayla supervises in the background.

Danielle being super cute with the mini football toss participants.



Maybe the only thing from that night that wasn’t tricky was the Thai food, we should have known that it wasn’t going to knock our socks off… However, the 400 adorable children we played with all night did the trick!



Live music for the Trick or Trunk-ers made up for the mediocre Thai food