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When I was a kid growing up in the Pacific Northwest, we used to weave little baskets of colored paper strips, fill them with flowers, and hang them from the doors of all the houses in the neighborhood in which a woman resided. I haven't heard of kids doing that for ages, though.
My May Day is going to be PACKED this year, because it will be the first May Day since we started the children's Morris at school that will fall on a Saturday. Consequently, the kids get to do the full roster of dances with the adult troupes instead of just one token venue and then a dance at school. We'll start by meeting at the Santa Cruz lighthouse to dance the sun up, then we'll all go have breakfast downtown (Zachary's, a favorite downtown breakfast spot, traditionally saves room for the Morris hoards on May Day). After that, we'll dance downtown in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz, then we'll all troupe over to the Homeless Garden Project to dance through the fields (another Morris May Day tradition). After that, the adult dancers get a rest, but we'll be taking the kids out for pizza, then taking them to dance at the covered bridge up here in Felton before taking our afternoon break. Then, that evening, we all meet up again at Boulder Creek Brewery (a pub up here in the valley), which always clears the floor and sets aside seats for the Morris dancers so we can dance, sing, eat, drink and generally party the night away! There will probably be at least three adult troupes (last year we had Santa Cruz's "Seabright Morris" as well as "Fault Line Morris" from Hayward and "White Rat Morris" from San Francisco) as well as our kids ("Seahorse Morris"), so it should be quite a wild time!
Anybody else planning anything fun?
Redwolf
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