Paul’s “G”odiva Spot

Now you are not going to believe this…I take that back!  You ARE going to believe this!!  I and my bunch of desperately nutty friends were involved in a birthday delusion, which involved characters from “Alice in Wonderland”…THE CARTOON I mean!  And guess what?  WE were the characters!!!

Alice was the birthday girl, a.k.a. Rita.  I cannot tell you how much she fit the part, even down to the apron!  And everyone else that came really outdid themselves!  Especially Patrick, who showed up as the Dodo, in a most impressive costume. If there was a prize, he would have won it!  He certainly knows how to make an entrance!  Being fashionably late does have its perks.  I, on the other hand had the daunting task of coming up with my cosutme.  I am sure you can guess the character I had to dress up as… Yes!  I was the White Rabbit!  Picture this!  Moi, in a red shirt, blue pants, with rabbit ears and a tail!  Needless to say I had to spend the whole trying not to be eaten!  Rabbits fear for their lives you know.

ANYWHO, first, we started off with a tea party!  I did the final rush-in squealing. “I’m late!  I’m late, for a very important date!  No time to say ‘hello’ GOODBYE!  I’m late, I late, I’m late!!!”  Do you know that in all the years I have seen this cartoon, I can never really figure out what he was constantly late for.  Anyway, I was always late for everything!!  At the party, I sat next to the Queen (a.k.a. Penelope).  Now we all know the Queen’s obssession with cutting off people’s heads.  Every 10 seconds or so, almost as if fixated in a trance, the Queen would emit that shriek, “OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!”  Needless to say that as a Queen, Penelope was so committed to the role of being mean and cruel that sometimes I found her scary!  She was even accused of being fat and dripping by others at the table, though she had the useless support of her sniveling husband (a.k.a. Jeanette), the king.

Next we move on to the cutest costume!  That was definitely won by the little Church Mouse (a.k.a. Anita).  I was so relieved to know that there was jam readily available, in case the word ‘cat’ was ever mentioned.  We would not have wanted her screaming desperately all over the house freaking out about cats.  You see!  I am not the only one who was worried about being eaten, so I am not crazy!

The biggest candied hams of the evening were Mad Hatter and the March Hare (a.k.a. Melvin and Siegmund)!  Watching those two babble on desperately and breathlessly for the whole evening gave me a newly found respect for the speed and endurance of the human tongue!

And of course, WHO could forget the Cheshire Cat (a.k.a. Cleopas!)!!  He was an interesting fellow.  He did not have the decency to show up altogether for the party.  He was totally BESIDE himself with glee the whole evening, not saying much, and just sporting a toothy, sinister grin.  To say that he was barely there is a desperate understatement, and he would fall to pieces at a moments notice.  I do remember telling him to pull himself together but that just made things worse, and somehow, I think he rather enjoyed being all over the place.  It must be interesting to be able to stand on your head or string your tail through the craw of your bosom…literally! 

After a very interesting game of Croquet, in which the Dodo nearly lost it because we were not playing by any particular rule or code, we skipped daintily back indoors where we were ordered downstairs to actually watch ‘Alice in Wonderland’.   How quaint!  We, being in Wonderland, after a delicious tea party, were watching and being watched by…ourselves!  I am sure if we had dared to refuse, we would have been tied or duct-taped to the sofa, gagged and made to watch the movie at wand-point!  I knew I remember seeing rope and duct tape in Rita’s closet, not that I was snooping around in there by any means. 

It was a wonderful evening!  We even played a game of ‘My Fairy Princess’ or some other HP 360 Turbofax XL thereof.  I, as well as other guys was Princess Jasmin.  It was not at all surprising that all of us ended up being Princess Jasmin.  Of all the Disney Princesses, Princess Jasmin was the most ‘butch’.  I mean, she was known to jump over rooftops, has a tiger as a pet, and can work a good pole in self defence.  Not very dainty, is it?

Though it was fun, I could not help but wonder what she will have in store for us next year!  Last year, it was murder mystery.  This year, it was Alice in Wonderland.  Maybe, next year will be Superfriends, or Ballerinas-on-point, or even TELETUBBIES (*GACK!*)! With Rita, the world will NEVER know!!!

Moi