Family & time travel

It seems that Ted & Ed have a bunch of cousins.

There's Ned, he's a bit of a nerd and loves to read.  He wears round, gold spectacles and carries a backpack full of his books.

Fred is a trucker.  He drives a semi.  His CB handle is "prickles".  We don't know yet what he carries in his truck, just that he basically goes across the street from curb to curb.  ** remember these are hedgehogs, to them this is a long distance!

Then we have Jed.  He's a hillbilly.  He wears a straw hat and  denim overalls and usually has a piece of grass or hay in his mouth.

When Ned, Fred, and Jed arrived last night Ted and Ed were very excited.  They had an idea they wanted to try but none of the other hedgehogs would participate so they figured their cousins might be game.  

Ned, Fred, and Jed stood closely together on a spot.  Gustave joined them, he's always up for trying new things.  When Gustave is afraid or in danger he "goes rock" ... basically he tucks himself into his shell hoping to be mistaken for a stone.  So while standing there with the cousins he went rock, peeking out from time to time to see if anything had happened yet.

Then Ed and Ted whirled around the group as fast as they could, thinking that if they circled them fast enough they might be able to create a worm hole and time travel.  The only problem was, they spun in opposite directions and kept crashing into each other landing on their butts.  Ted and Ed would then crack up giggling and have to start all over.  They did this over and over until the group in the middle decided they weren't going anywhere and drifted off to each do his own thing. 

Gustave was particularly disappointed.

Ted, Ed, Ned, Fred, and Jed weren't too disappointed though, it was their birthday so they were happy just to be together and have cake.