The Order of Mostly Hedgehogs & Raoul

The Order of Mostly Hedgehogs & Raoul consists of mostly hedgehogs ... the "mostly" includes a snail, chameleon, turtle, and an owl. Then there's Raoul, who likes to be named separately. So let's meet the gang:

Emilio is the unofficial leader of the hedgehog group. He's a brown hedgehog. He loves to eat peanut butter and jam sandwiches and drink cranberry juice. He's very friendly.

Alphonso is Emilio's best friend. He's an albino hedgehog, so he's completely white with a pink nose and pink feets. He eats peanut butter sandwiches without jam and only drinks milk or clear liquids so he doesn't get stained. He usually wears a bandana or cloth napkin around his neck to keep himself clean.   Once his quills are dirty it's very hard to get them white again.  He's very environmentally conscious.

Lola is the only girl in the group. She's a showgirl, of course, and is a very good dancer. She's a regular brown colored hedgehog but has pink lipstick and pink painted toes.

Ed & Ted are twins. They're miniature hedgehogs.  They have to constantly remind people that "We're not babies - we're just small!!"  They love to eat chocolate covered raisins and drink lemonade (because it reminds them of poo and pee ... they're a tad disgusting and it drives Lola crazy). They love to cause trouble and move around by spinning very fast. They are always together and hardly anyone can tell them apart.

Jorgé hates it when people call him George. He's very groovy and says so all the time ("I'm so grooooovy!!"). He wears a psychedelic colored jacket, a cowboy hat and sunglasses. He likes gatorade and peeled grapes. Ed and Ted peel the grapes for him so they can eat the peels.

Chico is Jorgé's brother from another mother. He's also groovy with a cowboy hat and sunglasses, but he wears a green jacket instead of psychedelic colors. He likes fajitas, tacos, quesadillas, enchiladas, all kinds of Mexican food. He drinks milk to keep down the spicy. He loves to say chimmiCHANga! He's very good with the ladies and likes to say it in a sexy deep voice like "the layyyydeeees"

Luigi is Italian and goes around singing "That's amoré" all the time. He doesn't know the whole song, just sings that line. He loves to eat pasketti and meatballs and slurps his pasketti ... Alphonso can't sit next to him or he'll get splattered on.

So those are the hedgehogs .... here's the mostly:

Gustave is a snail. He likes to eat licorice but since he has no hands he needs someone to cut them into bite sized pieces for him. He's very polite and always says "thankyou muchacho". He's very wise.  The others often ask for his advice.  He goes to Mexico for Cinco de Mayo every year.  Usually he leaves in February because it's a long trip and takes him a long time to get there.

Freddy is a Chameleon. He's British and of course likes tea and crumpets (with flies in the crumpets). He has a slight superiority complex to the other critters sometimes.

UpYours is a turtle. He comes from a broken home where his parents were always fighting and yelling "up yours!" to each other, thus his name. His shell is very roomy and can hold just about anything inside it.  Unlike other turtles, he is very fast.

Al is a brown owl. He's very bad at landing ... has to tuck and roll. He likes fig newtons and cold beer. He has a gambling problem and recently got kicked out of Vegas for counting cards .... out loud.  

Then finally there's Raoul. He's a brown rabbit. He's very independent and doesn't want to be lumped in with "mostly" like the others. He doesn't like to be told what to do. 

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Emilio and Alphonso love to tell jokes. Their favorite is "knock knock" .... "To get to the other side!!" and then they both crack up laughing. Lola rolls her eyes at them. Ed and Ted think they're hilarious.

Ed and Ted got a wagon and wanted to hook it up to Raoul to haul them around, but Raoul wouldn't do it. He says he's not their Cabana bunny. Sometimes they use Gustave's licorice as a straw, but Gustave doesn't like that because it taints the taste of the licorice. They giggle crazily when anyone says the word "but" or the letter p. Lola thinks they're disgusting.

The hedgehogs love music. They don't sing (besides Luigi singing "that's amoré"), though Gustave sometimes hums, he has a very deep voice. When they hear music the hedgehogs stop whatever they're doing and just smile real big (no teeth showing) and bob their heads to the music. Lola and UpYours dance ... she obviously dances because she's a showgirl, UpYours breakdances and spins on his shell.

They all love to have their picture taken.  They think that when you smile for the camera you should show all of your teeth, so they sometimes look a little crazy in pictures with big wide teethy faces.

Al took Emilio and Alphonso with him on his last trip to Vegas.  He carried one in each claw while flying, then gently let them go before tucking and rolling.  Emilio had 5cents with him to gamble with and ended up winning $2.  He was rich!  Someone spilled red wine on Alphonso though, he had a big pink stain on his back.  Emilio wanted to bleach him to get it off but Alphonso would rather just wait and let it wear off.

This is not a very talkative group.   They don't sit around discussing things to decide what to do.  Usually they just follow each other's lead and do what feels right at the time.  Like if they need to leave somewhere in a hurry they all know that whoever is standing next to Gustave is supposed to scoop him up before running away.  The hedgehogs are good runners ... they have a determined look on their faces and usually run everywhere they need to go.