Trunk or Treat

Josh and I went on Friday night (the 24th) to help set up for Trunk or Treat at our church. Trunk or Treat is where cars park outside and decorate their trunks, and the kids can go from car to car trick or treating. Only our church does it up. BIG. We had no idea how big until we went with our life group to help them set up for a couple of hours on Friday night. They decorated the church to look like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory (from the original movie, not the Johnny Depp one). The décor was complete with the shrinking entrance, working “chocolate” fountain, live birds (for the part where they lay the golden eggs), and shrinking entrance- among other things. Josh helped with the giant machine that shrinks Mike T.V., and I strung candy to hang from the ceiling (yes, it sound easy, but we were working with fishing line- a daunting task). We only helped for a couple of hours, and people had already been working for MONTHS! The event was Sunday night, and there was a GREAT turnout- We stood in line with Liam dressed in his gingerbread costume for two hours to see the final product! Next year, we’ll have to help more!

Here is the entrance to the chocolate factory, complete with shrinkage. The photo isn't very good, but you get the idea.

Here is the factory- you know the part where they are walking through, and everything is made of candy- just before the chocolate fountain? See that candy hanging from the ceiling? That's the part that I helped with. Two hours and I think I made six little strings- so you can imagine how much time others must have spent on this!

The chocolate fountain and Augustus Gloup in front of it.

This is the machine that shrunk Mike T.V. and a giant Wonka bar beside it. THis is the part that Josh helped with...

And this is Liam- still happy after standing in line for two hours dressed like a gingerbread man...what a good baby!

These are just a few photos, and they certainly don't capture the mood- but the important thing is that there were over 9,000 kids that came through- success!

After the chocolate factory, they went from trunk to trunk in the parking lot to collect candy. The trunks each had a theme. One of my favorites was a giant trailer with huge teeth at the entrance and a little man in a rowboat back behind one of those hangy-things in the back of your throat (Josh isn't here right now, or I'd ask him what that's called- I'm sure he's thrilled with me calling it a hangy thing!) Anyway, it was Jonah in the whale- so cute!