Double-Jointed Adventurer

It's a little known fact that first-grade teacher Wendy Cresswell was one of the first delivery people for Dominoes and she had to drive around in Arizona (which is very hot) in her Volkswagen with a big pizza oven in the back seat.

She’s lived in many exotic places and says, “At the time I went to Colombia it was considered to be very dangerous so very few people traveled there, which was too bad because Colombia is beautiful. But South Africa was amazing too because I was there right after Apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela was elected President.”

And she really is double-jointed: “I can lean on a table and my elbows flip inside-out -- hard to explain--and stick way out the wrong way,” she says. “It looks very weird.”

Besides Tacky the Penguin, she has dressed up as a candy corn, a bat, Araboolie, and Lilly, but she loves Tacky because Tacky was “wacky.”

And, yes, she really did act in a non-profit Star Wars fan film called "Revelations." “I was an inter-galactic diplomat at a party and I got arrested by the Storm Troopers--very exciting!” she recalls. “Unfortunately, the beings from my planet wore head-to-toe black shrouds so I am very hard to recognize unless you recognize my hands. I look like a big, black blob!”
-- Adelaide Kaiser, Student Blogger

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