Dance invitations and answers are a whole adventure
in and of themselves where we live.
I often think, it wasn't like this when I was growing up
50 years ago in Idaho.
I don't know if that's because it was 50 years ago
or if that's because it was Idaho. ;)
Here are a few of the twigs invitation/answer adventures.
The whole goal seems to be anonymity.
Well, that is until the "puzzle" part of the invitation gets solved.
Keeping that anonymity causes one to do some crazy things!
Our girlie left this invitation after dark one evening on a friend's porch.
The letters of her first and last name were written on the "cuties."
Then the crazy began!!!!!
Amidst mounds of ice and snow in the middle of winter,
she and Hunter knocked and ran..... nothing happened.
Hunter is so nice and he's super fast so he kindly
climbed the steps to the porch and rang again
but no one came to the door.
A third time, Hunter climbed the steps to the porch
and reached out his hand to knock.
Right then a car pulled up in front of the house
and the front door swung open.
Hunter dived into the shadows and the intended young man came out the door
but not to answer it, he came out to move his pick-up truck.
He stopped for just a second
and looked at the signs and box of cuties
but the car that just pulled up honked
so he went to his truck.
If he had walked around the front of his truck
he would have tripped right over Hunter who was hiding there in the shadows.
That would have been a sight! :)
Luckily he went around the back of his truck
and backed it out instead of running over Hunter!
The young man's mom and sister were in the car that had pulled up
and he was moving the truck out of their way
so they could pull their car in the driveway.
Again Hunter almost got squished,
this time by the car.
The Mr. and I were sitting in our car in the dark,
just down the street, watching all the craziness.
We could see Hunter sneaking around a third car
parked in the driveway when the pick-up truck came around the corner.
The young man had just driven it around the block
and was parking it in the driveway again.
A third time now, Hunter almost got squished in the driveway.
The young man had seen someone
when he pulled the truck back into the driveway
but by the time he got out to see who it was,
Hunter had taken off down the street.
The mom and sister were on the front porch
looking at the invitation and oranges.
Our girlie was hiding in bushes watching the craziness too.
What a lucky girl to have a brother willing to be her stunt man!
This next invitation was pretty much the opposite of the first one.
This was another of our girlie's invitations.
This young man's front door was all glass
and there was a light on in the front room.
Despite the lights,
the twigs weren't concerned
when they went to the front porch.
They could hardly get people to answer doors, remember?
So although they were dressed in black, and were being quiet,
they weren't thinking about getting caught in the act.
They walked up the front step,
barely set the posters and balloons down
when in an instant the door came flying open
and out jumped the intended young man onto the front porch!!!!!
Hunter took off running around the house.
and our girlie hid on the side of the front porch.
The young man just kept mumbling something about "I'm so sorry"
and "this is so awkward, oh man this is so awkward."
He gathered the things off of the porch and took them inside.
Turns out he thought it was some doorbell ditcher friends
of his little brother's and he was going to catch them.
Catch them he did! :)
A few weeks ago, this was left on the doorstep for Hunter.
He answered the invitation with this.
He left it on her front porch, rang the bell,
and disappeared into the bushes.
She came out, looked around,
gathered the balloons and note, went back inside and
flashed her front porch lights off and on, off and on.
No crazy this time, just cute. :)
