More than 5,000 parents and children attended Children’s Health Day at Baptist Children’s Hospital. The annual event is a free interactive health fair with a variety of hands-on activities designed to teach kids more about their health. The annual fair for kids also teaches them about what a trip to the hospital is like, so if they have to come to the hospital, they won’t be afraid.

Clone trooper Christian Varela, 6, (pictured above) learns how the remote control operating room tables work at Baptist Children’s Hospital. Gus Infante, nurse anesthetist, gave Christian a ride on the O.R. Table and let him try his hand at laparoscopic surgery on a “patient,” a Halloween monster.