Halloween fun and more

Still in taper mode here!  Keeping it easy and letting the muscles calm down before next Sunday.  There's been a lot of activity all over the place!

First, Frank's first Halloween!  Frank is a classmate of mine from Ghana who we spent years wooing to come join our public policy doctoral program at UNC.  He is an amazing wealth of information - one of the few people I know who could cite off any demographic-social science-related statistic.  This is the longest he's lived outside of Ghana, so I had to introduce him to USA's fall favorites.

Like pumpkin carving:

 

Or, witnessing the Halloween craziness on Franklin Street (one of CH's claims to fame)!

Allegedly, tens of thousands flood Franklin St. every Halloween.

 Though Garima and Frank were under-costumed (and I warned them not to be "those people"!), we all enjoyed ourselves.

Saturday concluded my final long run as a FF mentor for the fall season.  Crayola buddy AT prepared a scavenger hunt that was tricky (lotsa CH-related facts) and fun.  Highlights from the run/competition:

 

In front of the hospital - posing in front of the public art.

Runners as football players

Muppets and historical markers!

Public health as strength!

Meanwhile, there's a ton of buzz about NYC (!!!) and Raleigh City of Oaks Marathon!  Two of our muppet runners are hitting up the half in Raleigh and a ton of friends and +Oiselle birds are racing up NYC.  Our Oiselle founder and CEO, Sally Bergesen, finished her full in 3:10 like it was no big deal!  BQ, no big deal!  Love it!