Friday, February 14, 2020

Valentine's Day Dance

Daddy Steve:  The girls were busy getting ready for the first annual Gregoropolis Valentine's Day dance.

Holly Belle: How's the decorating coming?
Harriet: Oh, just splendidly!

Holly Belle: Good.  Just remember --
Rhoda: Yeah, yeah.  We know; no tape on the wallpaper.
Harriet: Actually, we're just about finished.

Holly Belle: Great! You're just in time for the yoga class I will be leading then.
Rhoda: Why do we have to do yoga?
Holly Belle: It's obvious.  The boys outnumber us, so we're going to be doing lots and lots of dancing.  We have to be in top form.
Louisette: I do not need ze yoga.  We French women are naturally fit, n'est-ce pas?  We have ze appetite like ze bird and we walk everywhere.

Later that evening, the dance was ready to begin!


Blake was acting as DJ.

Daisy: Do you have 'Mony Mony' by Billy Idol?
Blake: Oooh, rock on!

However, a problem became immediately apparent.  The boys are that self-conscious age where the idea of dancing...and with a girl!...is rather mortifying.


Holly Belle Why won't they dance with us?!  They're just milling around and eating!

There were, of course, a few exceptions.  Bowie and Valerie cut an elegant rug.


And Robin believes that dancing is a societal nicety every refined young gentleman should be accomplished at.


Of course, Frank was his usual uninhibited self.

Frank: Boogie down!
Alice: >sigh<

The evening may not have gone exactly as planned, but Holly Belle is never one to give up.

Holly Belle Well, I can see that before next year's dance I'm going to have to organize some dance lessons in addition to the yoga classes.


❤❤ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY from GREGOROPOLIS!  ❤❤

2 comments:

Dee said...


Looks like the Gregoropolis Dance was like most others for kids that age, girls loving to dance and the boys being shy.
Although a couple of the boys strutted their stuff :)

Yes Holly Belle had best start those dance classes now but she'll need to work on the girls don't bite if asked to dance too !

If only Valentine had known I'm sure he would have popped over to dance a pasa doble or two with the girls, although not sure how well it would have gone down to the music of mony mony.....

Sasha's Vintage Boutique said...

I can’t keep up with the kids from gregoropolis! Such a busy crew! Typical... boys clustered on one side and girls on the other!!