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Once again, beautiful weather provided a wonderful day for Houston families to enjoy ArBOOretum, our annual Halloween festival! Over 1,300 visitors came out to the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center for lots of safe, fun and eductional activities. The highlight of the event is always the Trick-or-Treat trail, which includes stops along a forest path to learn about animals that live in Houston. This year, the theme of the trail was migration. Kids pretended to be hummingbirds and had to cross the Gulf of Mexico at the Hummingbird Hover rope bridge, got to fly like a bat on a zip line, climb Monarch Mountain, navigate through the Sea Turtle Obstacle Course and more! Other activities included:
Live Owls
Hay Rides
Petting Zoo
Pony Rides
Cake Walk
Carnival Games
Face painting
Pumpkin decorating
Performance of classical and contemporary songs by members of Houston Grand Opera's Opera-To-Go
Beck's Prime
Fiesta
Optimist's Club of Bellaire
Buchanan's Native Plants
Green Mountain Energy
David Andrew and Family/Goldman Sachs
Daniel Hu and Family
Estelle Lozmack and Family
Tom O'Leary and Family
Amanda McMillian and Family
Ernie Pekmezaris and Family
Allen Rustay Family
David Symonds
and Family
John Wombwell and Family
A special thanks to all the volunteers who helped make
ArBOOretum 2009 a success:
Houston Arboretum & Nature Center Volunteers
Volunteers from: Waste Management, Schlumberger,
GE, LyondellBassell, Hastings H.S. - National Art Honor Society, Memorial Park Conservancy, Harris County - CERT, UH-L.I.T.E., UH Accounting, UH-Environmental Club, and Jeff Davis H.S. Environmental Club!
