22 May 2011 : Written by A Camping Ninja
May camping = sunny days and dark nights. Of course in between, there are delightfully warm evenings. Perfect for barbecues, sitting out around a campfire, and…. shadow puppets.
With her silhouette shining through, I could see my camping chum Susie reading a book by torchlight in her tent at the pitch next door to us. I had every confidence in my ninja abilities and excellent stealth skills, and in fact my puppeteer talents too. There was no way she would think that it was me. I crept along the grass by the side of her tent, biting my bottom lip to stop myself from laughing, as that would almost certainly give my position away.
First I made a shadow puppet butterfly. Then a rabbit. Followed by acting out the crane position from the Karate Kid movie, to make a ninja themed shadow.
‘Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!’ Susie let out an enormous, ear-piercing shriek!
The next morning at breakfast Susie broke the news that she’d been frightened by her sightings of a large moth, a rabbit with unusually proportioned big ears and then a monster doing the Michael Jackson Thriller dance. Whoops!