Valentine Murder Mystery

I know Valentine's Day is officially wrapped up, but I just wanted to mention three last little things:

1. Dan LOVED his custom Jeopardy game I made him! He completely dominated the Beatles category and football category and raved about it so much that I'm thinking that he's going to get some kind of a scavenger hunt with Jeopardy clues for his birthday. Watch out, Alex Trebek; I'm gunning for your job.

2. My sister loved the card I sent to her, an inside joke about her once singing "The wind beneath my wings" for a ninth grade talent show:

Singing a Bette Midler song = Classic fodder for years of ridicule. It never gets old.

3. Dan dressed as a secret service agent the weekend before Valentine's Day. And, no, it wasn't some kind of kinky dress-up game we were playing. It was for...

A Valentine's Day Murder Mystery Party!

I pilfered these photos from the host's Facebook page. She did such a cute job! All of her guests received e-mails with information on our characters and ideas for costumes. I was supposed to be a trendy florist named Rose Darling (so I wore roses in my hair) and Dan sported sunglasses and my Bluetooth.

Turns out we had the lamest costumes there! The other guests showed costume commitment, like...

The Newlyweds:


Yep, this guest should have won "best dressed" for wearing high necked, puff sleeved, 80's wedding gown!

The movie stars:

Gold chain and chest hair - nothing if not classy

Oh, and I can't forget our hosts. Here they are, two hunters who are trying to hide a secret concerning a Cheney-esque accident...

If camouflaging your face in green paint isn't character commitment, I don't know what is!

Of course, many other characters joined too (the old couple, the molecular biologists, the cheerleader/ football player, the chocolatier, the farmers) It was hilarious :)

Oh, and the house was completely transformed into the "The Amore Cafe", where the amorous and scandalous meet. The below pic doesn't even do it justice. Our host put candles, cheesy hearts, rose petals, flowers, frilly heart shaped pillows, doilies, and even sassy sleeping masks everywhere.

Over our rock ass meal of Italian food, salad, and breadsticks, Dan and I won the romantic movie trivia contest. Or Dan won it because he's amazing at any kind of trivia (see above: Jeopardy). And I kind of judge him for answering the Twilight question correctly.

Spoiler alert: Someone died at dinner.

Don't scroll any lower in case you think you might play this game in the future 'cause I'm going to reveal the victim and the killer.

Seriously, stop scrolling now if you ever want to play this. Also, don't look at the comments either.

I mean it.

No crying to me if you play this game later 'cause I warned you...

SPOILER ALERTS AHEAD

Okay, back to the post! Carrie (the host) even put white face paint on our victim. Attention to detail, I tell ya'.

Fast forward three hours of cracking up, chocolate-covered strawberries, and heavy drinking later, they finally busted the killer.

It's always the one you least suspect.

Ba ha ha HA HA!

(That's my evil laugh since you can't hear me).

Cast of characters:

Angela Lansbury herself couldn't have come up with a better murder mystery!

In the words of Phil Dumphey, "Good times, she wrote!"