Ringing in the new year is always fun. When Heather the Hillarious and Darren the Dashing through a party, it gets very interesting. We decided to do one of our favourite things: A Murder Myster Party. This gives us a chance to either dress up or dress silly. You are giving a book and lines to read. The narrator from the CD sets the stage. All is left is filling in the blanks and try to solve "Who did it?"
The title is Wine and Murder. Here's the story line.
"Five years ago, Barry Underwood, owner of the prestigious Underwood Wine Estates, mysteriously disappeared during the Napa Valley's annual wine festival. A massive search at the time failed to turn up any clues and the case has been in the FBI's unsolved files since then.
Now, five years later, it is once again the annual wine festiaval in Napa Valley, CA. Last night, family and friends gathered at the stately Underwood mansion to celebrate. At midnight, a minor earthquake shook the manson, causing an old wooden floor in the wine cellar to buckle. Barry's well preserved body was discovered under the cedar planks."
And the suspects are....
from left to right: non-suspect Bonny Lass (Heather), the elderly Papa Vito (Patrick), Tiny Bubbles the innocent-and-tempered ex-fiance and new wife to current owner (Brandy), The competitor Hedy Shablee (Dalena), the German wine merchant Otto Von Schnapps (Daniel), Wine Princess and star Marilyn Merlot (Becky), and the bad-boy owner of Underwood Estates and Barry's cousin Ralph Rottingrape (Darren). As you can tell, we had a motely crew at our house for a few hours. It was a lot of fun. The plot got interesting especially with fake identies, anger issues, black-mailing, photos... Everything you can think of it may have happened. Everyone fell in love with Papa Vito. It's strange how the sweetest person can be a cold-blooded killer. Shame. Here's a few more pictures from New Year's eve. 
Here the ladies are toasting in the New Year. 
I hate to say it, but the boys have no clue. |
