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When I was younger, I would go to my cousin's house every Sunday afternoon, and play games. These games consisted mainly of dressing up as beautiful princesses, locked in a tower by their evil step-uncle Ichabod. And in these games, we would play multiple parts....Count Ichabod, Countess Gizzel, Fair Prince Ferdinand, Handsome Sailor Conrad, random servants, and of course, the two princesses. We pulled this off, by jumping to random places in the room, where we supposed on of the other characters was standing, and changing our voices to match who we had just become. Countess Gizzel's voice was high pitched, and whining, Count Ichabod's was deeper, and nasally, Prince Ferdinand and Captain Conrad's voices were variations on deep, manly voices, done by Justyne  or myself. Though, we could never pull this off with straight faces.

Another game we liked to play, was one in which we ourselves were sailors, fighters, and explorers. Of course, our epic battles with newspaper swords, consisted of much leaping around, and causing the intire house to shake, worrying us that we might fall through the floor, into the kitchen. So we made up this song. (To the tune of "Shall we Dance" from The King and I)

Shhaaaallllll weeeee DANCE? Dun dun dun

Onna BRRRIGHT cloud of moonlight shall we GLIDE? Dun dun dun

Shall we CRASH through the floooor, like a couple of bozos,

and shall we make fools of ourselves? Dun dun dun

Or perchance...dun dun dun

Shall we go to the kitchen for a snack? Dun dun dun

We can take the shortcut and go right through the floor and be there in two seeeconds

FLAT.

Remember, this was before we were into double digits....It sure was fun though!