Dancing in the Rain

I know, I been slacking :P hey, it's Summer -- can you blame me?
Seriously though, I'm pretty lazy.
    Anyway, let's get cracking with yet another story about my sisters Dotty and Lewis.
    So the other day (and today) the sky has kind of had this feel of impending rain, but it hasn't really rained, rained -- just a little sprinkle. My sisters and I, yeah, we decided to help it out; give it a little incentive to pour that sweet moisture down on us.
     In short, we did a rain dance.
     It went something like, well, this...
     Carrying one of my tall sticks (staff, as I like to call it) I lead the way outside and we all looked up. "Hm," Lewis said thoughtfully. The crazy one, naturally, was the one to convince us. "Let's do a rain dance!" so she started us off by kicking her legs high and pushing her arms down. It was kind of a gorilla-like thing, and trust me, extremely weird.
     Dotty and I did our own versions.
     While Lewis was making a circle around us chanting: "Rain! Rain! Rain!"
     Dotty stood in the middle and (shy child that she is) held her arms up and cried: "Rain!" again and again.
     Me, I bent my legs and bounced on them, making a song out of: "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain!" over and over, and eventually started following Lewis around Dotty. Then Hadley, my four-year old little brother, came outside and wanted to join in. Who wouldn't?
       So Hadley began following Lewis and I, jogging to keep up, yelling, "Rain!" occasionally.
      There were several variations of our 'rain dance,' but mostly, we just made fools of ourselves and either annoyed or entertained our neighbors -- or both. Either way, it was really fun. The rain came a little harder, but it didn't come pouring down on us like we wanted. It sprinkled and pattered on the concrete, dotting our clothes and dampening out hair, but it didn't pour. Hopefully we'll get more today.
     And that, my friends, was our rain dance. Purely fun, and we didn't mean to offend anyone -- we were just messing around, you know, like kids, even though I'm technically not a kid. Anyway, hope it was somewhat entertaining for you to think of that.

-Anevay