MORP...2009???

For those who don't know, Morp is a high school dance where girl asks guy. In other words, it is prom backwards. Way back when, in 2001, I asked a guy named Matt Smith. He was not my boyfriend at the time, but I had a pretty big crush on him. Because I was too shy to do it alone I asked my friend Meghan if she would ask our friend Ben as well so it would seem like a group thing. Meghan and I got together and wrote a catchy little poem which was enhanced by our use of fake drums and fake cigarettes if my memory serves me correctly. I mean really who could say no that? They boys response (equally clever) was a video story narrated by Ben with clips of movies, and video games. For example, when they told the part about us driving to morp they used a clip from some racing video game. If I can ever track it down I would love to post the video we made to ask them as well as the video they used to respond. Both were pretty genius. The theme for Morp 2001 was "Morp Tour," a play on words for the very famous warped tour. The day began with a "water" balloon fight at Freestone park though I will say some of the water balloons were not filled with water. Rather they were filled with milk, coke, Jell-o, Coffee...After getting cleaned up the girls and I treated the boys to some fine dining at Wendy's, but then we had to go home and get ready. Meghan and I ran out and bought Rock Star tee shirts and "bedazzled" them....though at the time we didn't have a bedazzler so we just glued each jewel on by hand. The look was completed with crimped hair and white trash make-up. We were ready to "rock and roll." The boys took a different spin on the idea. They decided to dress up like a very popular rock band at the time (Blink 182). The costumes were to perfection. Ben actually drew Travis' tattoo's on his arms! To make a long story short we had the BEST time! Matt debuted some of the best dance moves I had ever seen, Ben showed off his impressive break dancing skills. We even started a disco line! This may be one of my all time favorite high school memories.
Fast forward 8 years later...

As a teacher, part of our responsibilities are to chaperon one after school event. This year my assignment was morp. I wont lie, I was not too excited about this assignment because I had to stay up until 11 and being pregnant and all this is not easy for me! (Don't worry I made up for it on Sunday with 2 naps!). So, here I am getting ready for morp all over again. As I am doing this I think to myself wouldn't it be so funny if I invited Ben? Wouldn't you know it, he agreed! This year it was a Skateland and the theme was "Neon nights." Unfortunately, none of us had any neon :) Here we are again...at Morp...as chaperons. What a stark contrast!Matt decided to get in on the "neon" fun! Doesn't he look like he is having the best time?
While Morp 2009 was no where near as fun as Morp 2001 it was cool to see the kids having fun just like we did back in high school...Ok, maybe not exactly like we did. I bet they didn't have a water balloon fight before hand...