Memories of Camp....

Hi Stephen,

I didn't realize it, but on Pete's computer there is a folder entitled PONY SHOW, which I had never noticed before.  Inside the folder, were all kinds of PICTURES of when he and I were in the Pony Show last year during camp!!  I am going to share some of these photos with ya, (don't worry they are rated PG, not XXX).  But oh my GAWD they are funny!! I didn't realize there were so many photos of it, so that's very cool, and it made me GIDDY with happiness about going to camp again soon.

Now, you probably don't know much about pony shows.  Some people dress up as a pony, with ears, a tail, a bit in their mouths, even hoof shoes, depending on how serious you want to be about it.  They are typically naked, they learn how to prance and gallop and all those other steps that horses do, and they usually walk with their hands behind their backs, they shake their heads like a horse, even whinny too.  I don't particularly GET IT, nor do I actually get into the head space of being a pony....I once HAD a real pony when I was 5, his name was Barney, and when I bent down to pick up some grass to feed him, he stepped on my HAND.  So I have a FEAR of horses, actually, but I have ridden them many times before. If the horse isn't too big, I can deal with it.  However, it has been YEARS since I've been on one.

So, anyway, the pony show is something I have typically gone to WATCH, never to participate in.  But Pete is Mister Entertainment, he likes to be in plays and sings, and dances, etc., so he talked me into doing it.  Here are some photos of our skit.....the song we played was "Dirty Deeds, Done With Sheep," (a parody of AC/DC), and I made these cardboard "sheep" that I was supposed to protect from the big bad wolf...I was Pony Bo Peep, and yeah, we mixed nursery rhymes but what the hell.  It was hilarious!!

So here I am, in all my pony glory, (yeah, I don't LOOK like a pony, I know...I don't have pony stuff).  So I had to borrow a bit to put in my mouth, and a tail to clip on the back of my skirt.  The rest of the costume is my own stuff, including the hat.  So, that thing I am touching is the cardboard 'sheep,' and the guy BEHIND it was the sheep's "persona."  So, anything that happened, he reacted to, for the audience.

We had 3 of these sheep, with 3 people behind them, all reacting to whatever Pete did.

Here's me, with the tail....I walked in at the beginning of the skit, when the music was playing the peaceful wilderness music that you hear in cartoons when all is well and the animals are safe. I carried fake flowers, (pink and black is my trademark, I wear pretty much everything in those colors at camp), but I added white to symbolize some sort of purity and innocence. (ha)!!  You probably can't see the pony EARS that I glued onto my hat, but they are there.

So I walk in, I pet my sheep, I sniff my flowers, the music is conveying that it is a peaceful, happy morning, and everything is fine.  Then suddenly the music changes---you hear a record scratching---and then you hear "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep" come on....and I look around all confused, like, "What's going on? Something's wrong!"  And I have to OVERact that reaction because I cannot TALK.

So I am prancing around, hearing the music, looking up and all around, trying to figure out what was going on, and then suddenly, Pete comes running in with wolf ears and claws and a tail...the big bad wolf.  He begins sexually violating my sheep!! 

So he's going at it, with these 3 sheep, who are making surprised and horrified faces, shaking their heads NO, reacting as though they were being attacked, and I'm running around with a sign that says WTF (what the fuck), which made everybody in the audience laugh hysterically...in the whole history of pony shows at camp, NONE of them have ever carried a SIGN that communicated with the audience. (That was a last minute idea of mine...how will anyone KNOW what I'm trying to say, if I don't have a sign)?!

So as you can see, he's going at it, bumping and grinding and raping the sheep, while I'm acting silly with the WTF sign, and everybody in the audience is laughing their heads off....

So then I turn to the audience, shrug my shoulders like, "Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," then I run over to one of my sheep, grab the sheep's fleece, put it over MY head, and start running---while Pete starts chasing ME, because I'm NEXT!!! hehehehehehehehehe

Our skit won 2 awards, one for best creativity, and the other for funniest skit.  We had a blast.

This year, however, we won't be doing the pony show.  We want to be a one-hit wonder.  There is a fine line between making FUN of the pony show, which can be an insult to some who take it very seriously, and actually being a real pony and doing real horse-like stuff, like pulling carts and backing up, etc., which are not physically easy to do.  So we don't want to be viewed as being rude or insulting by being in it again, ya know?  If you look real closely at Pete's shirt, it says, "I'm the guy ya gotta blow to get a drink around here." hehehehehehehehehehe

Well anyway, just wanted to show you the pony show, because just trying to write it down doesn't really work as well as having photos of it.  I'm tellin' ya, Stevie baby, camp is so much FUN!!!  And this year, that chubby tummy of mine will be GONE.  I've already lost nearly 20 pounds, and still going strong.

Okay, have a great day today and I'm off to the wild blue yonder.

Bye for now.

Love, Rebecca the strangest chick you'll ever know, who won 2 ribbons in a pony show!!