A Flamingo Parade

I went to pick up these flamingos today and as I drove up, I saw the cutest sight EVER ... a flamingo parade!!!  The kids were so appreciative that we flocked their house that they even made us the most adorable thank you cards.  It was just a reminder of why we flock.  Aside from raising funds to take kids to camp, it really does bring joy to people.

Flocking this home was pretty intimidating because it is in a rich neighborhood and all the neighbors have HUGE windows.  When we were flocking it, the neighbors looked outside the window at us.  I was a little nervous.  But later on, I found out that it was the owner's brother's house.  When the girls finished putting down all the flamingos, a car was backing out of a home.  The girls were screaming, "GO, GO, GO!"  I was like, "They don't know any better.  We're just a parked car.  A parked car."  I had my lights off and we just let the neighbor leave, then we drove off.  The best part was hearing from the owners about how much they loved it!! :)

Is That a German Shepherd?

Apparently, there was a German Shepherd chasing Gabe when they attempted to flock this home.  It was a good thing that he made it back into the vehicle in one piece.

When they tried to flock this house, all the lights were on.  

They See Us, Run! Run!

Right after the Camp Concert Fundraiser, with the help of Kyle and Hector, they took three students: Matt, Alethia and Danielle to flock this home.  There was a party going on next door and they were trying to be discreet, but when they thought that the owners had seen them, they bolted out -- taking some flamingo legs with them.  It's a good thing that flamingos like to stand on one leg. :)

Motion Sensored Lights ...

I had heard from my Area Director that one of the residents at this home had wished that his house would get flocked.  We made his dreams come true. :)  It was great because when we arrived at their home, all the lights were off which meant no one was home.  It was much easier to get the flocking done because usually they would have a good view of us with their big window facing us!

This house was really tricky.  We had attempted to flock this house earlier in the week, but we chickened out when we would walk and the neighbor's lights kept going on and off because they were motion sensored.  So that morning, I decided to talk to the neighbors to let them know what we were doing so they wouldn't be alarmed if they constantly saw their motion sensors going on and off.  It was mission accomplished!!! :)

The Flocking Continues ...

Well, the first house was easy enough to do.  The previous house that we flocked just wanted to flock the neighbor that was directly behind them.  So we went over and just walked over the flamingos. :) 

The other house was a little bit more tricky.  When we arrived, we noticed that the lights were on in one of the bedrooms and we were worried that we would be caught.  So we left in hopes that we would flock a different house that might not be so hard.  But after that failed, we went back to the house.

I sent one of the girls, Danielle, to check out whether or not she felt like we would be safe.  She gave us the go-ahead sign.  One of the other girls, Larissa and I hid ourselves behind a car and handed off the flamingos to the remaining girls to stake down.  As we were doing this, the neighbors watched it all take place.  It was one of the first most exciting flamingo flocking experiences that we had. 

Update ...

Well, I was hoping to update this more frequently than I have. I didn't have my Mac for a week which hampered trying to get pictures up. I will try to put up pictures today. We have split up the responsibility of flamingo flocking, so different leaders from LHS and MTHS are taking ownership of each night. Tonight, it's Tony. Tomorrow, Alex. Tuesday, Sarah. Wednesday, Rozelle. Thursday, Titi. Friday, Phoebe. Saturday, Hector.

It has been such an incredible bonding experience. I hope to put up pictures soon and share stories about each adventure as much as I can - though I won't be able to do it for each one.

2nd Flamingo Flocking

So the picture above is after we completed the first flamingo flocking of the night.  Both houses were actually pretty close to each other and to my home.  This one was just walking distance.

So when we got to the second house, the homes were so close together that we were confused which one was actually the lawn of the people that we needed to flamingo.  So we just created a straight row of flamingos.  Haha.