Vossenjacht Update
Labels: home life, just for fun
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The weather held up on Friday night and the vossenjacht went on as planned.
We were all so excited.
Our mummy was supposed to arrive at 6.45pm but towards 7pm, there still wasn't a single shred of her. We were all beginning to wonder when the doorbell rang.
Finally!
And oh, what a shock I got!
It was pitch black outside and looming up on our walkway was this white apparition. Freaky! If it wasn't for the parent volunteer who was escorting the mummy and for the fact I was expecting her, I would've screamed myself silly. To put it mildly, she was quite startling.
They apologised for being late. Apparently, they got the wrong address and rang the wrong doorbell. You can imagine the rest. The poor people who answered the door got such a terrible fright.....
Anyway, the mummy in question is a teacher in my son's school. Say hi to Juffrow Linda (Miss Linda) of Group 6:
There were 2 batch of kids (accompanied by parents): lower primary (4-7 year olds) and upper primary (8-11 year olds). The litte ones arrived first. The mummy sat there with her coffin and waved once in a while. Sort of spooky but in an unthreatening manner. The really scary stuff came later, for the older kids. What the mummy did was lie in wait at the foot of our garage. She would then run up and scare the pants off the kids, chasing them about and they would scream and laugh. Some of the kids meant business though, coming armed with search lights and what not. By the time the last group of kids came past, it was already 9pm. It was quite an experience for my son, who ended up helping scare the kids.
Times have really changed. I was schooled in a convent and can't imagine any of the nuns or teachers getting dressed and doing something like that. Although some wouldn't have to be in costume - they were already witches.
The Dutchess of Cookalot whipped this up at 10:24 am
