And Wednesday was MONKEYS!!!!!

I'm a perfectionist. It's hard to tell because I deliberately muss things up so that no one can see that I haven't met my own expectations...elaborate subterfuge for an undetectable event, I know. My mom has said before when she has visited from out of town, "Honey, if you hadn't told me we were going the wrong way, I never would have known!" No need to rat myself out, I'm sure...but...I got all the way down my monkey and had to rip him all out because *drum roll* I thought I dropped a stitch. My very-best-new-friend-I-made-at-camp gave an eyebrow to note the event, but since she's a bit of a perfectionist about her knitting too, she didn't skip a beat...Anyway, Wednesday was Monkey Kaw Kaw day. We were treated to a wonderful new pattern by one of Blue Moon's own and the yarn to knit them with and we all immediately launched into a full scale trade the likes of which have only been recently seen in grade school lunch rooms:

"I'll trade you my Rooster Rocks for some Pond Scum."

"Naah, got any Hot Flash, I'd trade for that!?"

"Uh uh, but I do have some lime colored stuff..."

"Man, what I wouldn't give for little taste of Dragon Dance for my Monkey's hiney..."

I was so looking forward to what I fully expected to be the creative equivalent to our homework. And I was not disappointed...

But first, a trip to our local yarn shop, and dinner on beeeeuuutiful Orcas Island...I bought one little harmless flat of yarn (that's this really cool thing where the yarn is machine knit in stockinette stitch and then dyed...so cool!) and we saw this in the corner...

Then we had a lovely dinner at the, "Thai Sisters" restaurant and then came 'home' for the evenings festivities...It was a relay race that involved knitting for speed, and then for some real fun, a TP relay course...and that ended up looking something like this... And this...

Who says that knitters don't know how to have fun :)