elephant swap

Tonight was the White Elephant Swap and guess what??? An elephant was actually there!
For realz!
hahaha!
Every year, No Kidding! has its annual dinner party, where all attendees have an opportunity to offload that chartreuse urn or pair of cheetah-spotted gloves to some unsuspecting soul... or two or three. You see, the way the game is played is this: all who bring a wrapped gift to swap get to select a number. Then, in order of number drawn, the player gets to choose from the amassed gifts one to open - or, and here is where the fun is, the player may opt to STEAL a gift that someone else has already opened! Oh, yeah!
The gifts range from books to decorative stockings to all manner of knick-knacks or edibles or aromatics.
And, this year, for the very first time in the five years I've attended, one of the gifts was an actual elephant.
An elephant!!!
Wow!
I was plum tickled, I tell you!
And, while I never got an opportunity to possess the elephant, three of us did, with one choosing to own it TWICE!
Which is the magic number for swaps. The gift can only be stolen twice before it finds its final owner.
Lucky devil!