The Halloween Hop
In October we all went to thuh Halloween Hop.
Kitsen
T. Cat wuz thuh hostess and lotza kitties were
there. There was a costume
contest, and we all entered. We won prizes, too!
Ceilidh and her winkwink Rocko were thuh first to
arrive:
"Oh, Rocko! Lookit alla pretty Halloweeny
decorashuns! Lookit
alla fancy kitty costumes! (Who do you spoze is
dressed up like a big mouse?
Alla babycats are chasin him!) Is that a Bobbin' fur
Mousies booth over
there? How did Kitsen git that smokey fizzy fog to go
all over? That's
real spooky. Isn't this a nice party?
"Rocko, we better show off our costumes if
we can get thuh
mewsic to match. Our Anna and thuh King of Siam
costumes are just purrfect
for us, since we're both beeeeyoutiful Siamese cats!
I love your liddle
bluish-purplish pillbox king hat and your silky
purplish-blueish robe--it's
just like thuh bald hoomin male inna moovie--you
know--Thuh King and I.
And don't you love my blue paisley Victorian shawl
wif fringes, and my
liddle blue hat to match my blueblue eyes? Don't I
look just like Anna?
"Okay, Rocko, now in thuh moovie, Anna teaches
thuh King to dance
a waltz dance, and they dance round and round and
round thuh room reel
reel fast. So let's do that, and alla kitties can see
us dancing. You
put your pawz here and here (ooh, that's nice), and
here we go! wun, too,
free, and wun, too free, and...
, Shallllll Weeeeeeeee
Dance?! (wun
too free and) . . . isn't this wunderful,
Rocko? Thuh mewsic is
so pretty and we're dancing all around thuh room and
you're just thuh best
King efur." (sigh*swoon*wirlaroundflooragin)
Then Ceilidh noticed her bestest frind Skye and
her winkwink
(well, winkwink-to-be), Oliver:
"Oh look! There's your brother Oliver and my
bestest friend Skye
-- they're all dressed upin their tuxedos, Oliver all
orange and white
wif an elegant black top hat, and Skye all black
smoke and white wif a
wreath of orange and yellow flowerz over her ears.
They're gonna dance
like Fred and Jinjur inna old moovies. See? Oliver
and Skye
touch paws, and then they moove toward each other and
stop and move back
from each other and kinda hesitate and then move
together agin. And Oliver
putz his paws around Skye and then they go swirly
step swirly step swirly
step all inna circle and then they pull apart and
hold paws and look in
each other's eyes -- I thought Skye was a wild shy
kitty, but she and Oliver
sure don't seem furrry shy tonight wif each other.
Hmmmm. Good fing I got
them that smurgling blanket at thu Jellicle
Ball."
And then Ceilidh saw Tally arrive in a very
special costume:
"Look over there! There's our housemate Talisker
Pippin -- she's
covered all her stripes wif gray ashes from thuh
furnissmonster under thuh
house, and she's put a black smudge on her nose, and
she has a big champagne
bottle, and she's pouring champagne for alla kitties.
She's come to the
Hop dressed up like her mentor Spike! He's at the
Rainbow Bridge now. She's
doing a pritty good job being a champagne fountain,
isn't she?
"Is that stripey kitty carrying thuh tray of
glasses Pandora?
They're sure hanging around together a lot these
days, and Pandora
is teaching Tally all sortza bad words -- I think
Pandora's hoomins thought
Tally would be a good influence on Pandy, but
instead Pandy is teaching
Tally all kindza fings she nefur thought of before.
Well, let's go get
some champagne anyway, okay? Then we can settle down
on our
smurgling blanket and watch alla other kittiez and
their costumes.
Oh -- first let's find Kitsen and tell her what a
fun party this is!
Well, like we said, our costumes were a great
success. We even won
a couple prizes. Kitsen made the announcement:
"Drum roll please! Here are the winners of the
Halloween
Hop Costume Contest! The categories are Most
Original, Most Believable,
Most Glamorous/Handsome, and Scariest. Here are the
winners...ta-da!
"Most Original goes to Hobbes, who blew us away
as a pile of leaves?
"Most Believable goes to Shu! Now he won't have
to be chased any
more! (It was Shu who had
dressed up as a big Mouse,
and alla babycats thought he was a reel mouse and
chased him all over thuh
Hop)
"Most Glamorous/Handsome...is a tie. Ceilidh
& Rocko, who were
dressed beautifully
as Anna and the King of Siame, and Shamrock & Stinky,
looking magnificent
as Sir Stinky of Catifurnia and Lady Shamrock of
Galway, share this title!
"Scariest goes to Buster, who nearly scared all
the cats away
as a TED! (The Evil Doctor, aka the
Veterinarian)
"Also I would like to announce a special
award.
Talisker Pippin
receives the
special "Most Meanigful" award. Dressing up as her
mentor, Spike,
was very touching and brought a tear to the eyes of
everyone who remembers
and loves Spike.
"Before I step down from the podium, I'd like to
thank everyone
who entered the contest, whether you received an
award or note. I
loved all the costumes that were entered, and the
judges had a great time
deliberating. I hope even more kitties will enter
next year.
"Well, have a great time tonight. This has been
so much
fun, it's hard to believe the Hop will be over so
soon. But it's already
five days past Halloween, so I'm sure we've all had
enough partying. Let's
make the last dance of the night "Over the Rainbow"
to honor
all the meowchat kitties who have passed on. So hold
your winkwink
close, and think of all the great times we had with
Spike, Yunyur, Finn,
and all the others."
And with that, the Halloween Hop came to a close,
and Ceilidh, Skye,
Talisker Pippin and their winkwinks (or
winkwinks-to-be) all went off to
their respective homes.
The next day, we all had fond memories of the
Halloween Hop. As Ceilidh
noted, "It was a great party! I was still humming
King-n-I songs
onna way home, and my bestest frend Skye was humming
liddle dancey toons
under her breff after playing Fred-n-Jinjur wif
Oliver all nite. And you
shudda seen Tally! She musta had as much champagne
herownself as she poured
fur thuh other kitties, and when we got home she just
stumbled around dripping
gray ashes all over efurryfing, and then she went to
sleep wif her paws
wrappped round thuh empty champagne boddle. We could
hardly get her
up to catch thuh Vote-Early-N-Often-Fur-Clarence-Fur
Prezicat limmonzeen
in time fur thuh eleckshun."
Tally had to have the last word: "Don't let
Ceilidh tell you stories!
I had a wunderful time atta party, and didn't have
any more champagne
than I shudda. But I couldn't be stingy wif thuh
champagne, cuz Spike
was a generous kitty and champagne fountin (hic) --
scuze me -- just a
liddle case uv thuh hickups (hic) -- howcum
efurrywun'z breeving so loud?
(hic) Anyway, I'm furry proud to have won thuh "most
meaningful" prize
in honor of Spike, so fangu to alla judges n kittiez
n . . . (hic) . .
. gess I should take anuvver nap now"
And Tally went back to sleep, her dreams
punctuated now and then by
little hiccups. Ceilidh and Skye decided a nap was
the best way to celebrate
the end of the wonderful Halloween Hop, too, so all
three kitties fell
sound asleep happily ever after.
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