Mystery Dinner Party!

And so the night of the Mystery Dinner finally arrived! Hailed by a Jo and Ursh who’d all but made themselves mad on anticipation and over-excitement!

We tootled off to our friends’ place to meet up and change for the party. It was the first time any of us had seen the other in full costume!!
I was to play a snobbish English bloke whose hobby was stamp collecting, fav band the Beatles and whose secret was that he was already married! Granted not the wildest character of the lot but I think I managed to do him proud! (I did hint to the others that he’d sort of killed off his entire family to get on board the ship, but I think they missed it, which might be good, in hindsight…)

[The name's Dover. Ben Dover! And might I say that Goatee was itchy but it was the face makeup that made me feel like a transvestite oddly enough]

Ursh went as an Italian Playboy (Her card said ‘Sex Addict’ but Playboy sounds so much nicer), and boy oh boy, did she pull it off well! It was actually very creepy, but comforting to know that if she ever needed a fall back career…

[Ursh, or should I say Romeo Gold, looking so dapper, WOW!]

I couldn’t fault anyone else's costume either!

[The lovely Briyani!]

[We had everyone from an Australian pilot with a sexually transmitted disease to a bad mannered French Teacher to a snap-happy Jap! What a mix!]

We all met up and drove to the restaurant! And oh, did they ever pick the perfect place to have a mystery dinner! It was gorgeous!! An old mansion type house, De Kasteel, in Elspark. It had beautiful wooden floors and was absolutely iced with the most interesting antique furniture and décor you could ever hope to surreptitiously play with!
[Alas I only got a pic at night but I think you still get an idea of how magnificent the venue was!]

The dining room was breathtaking and you got a whole feel of sumptuousness from it! Even the food was beautifully prepared! (And enough to feed a small Foreign Legion not just 8 people! [I ate before hand so as not to be the problem child]).
[Shiny!]

Throughout dinner, prompted by the CD, we would do various things to hint at what our characters were like. You couldn’t just blurt it out; you had to be sly, which we did with more or less success!
Everything from chatting about our love lives, to attacking the person on our left (which proved harder then you’d think, especially as mine was Ursh, but she took being called “cheaper then a free condom” rather well I must say….)

We even had to sing a song from our favorite artist and I sang a “stirring”, if warped, version of Yellow Submarine, which really fit the moment, if not the date in history!
(I did find it funny that we’re supposed to be on a ship in 1912 and not one of our artists was born anytime around or before then! But then can you name me 3 artists born before 1912 anyway?)

[The boobs! Originally a prop for Briyani's Naturalist tenancies, pretty much everyone got a go at fondling them and playing with them! Sometimes they looked awfully realistic, don't you think? You can stop staring now...]

[What? I couldn't help trying out a few other people's props! ^_^]

Finally we had to nominate someone who’d acted the best of all of us. This I must say was easy! And the winner turned out to be…. “Andrew” our “Scottish” friend whose foul mouthed antics kept us in stitches most of the night! (Ironically this turned out to be the Birthday girl for whom the party was thrown; she was not too keen to have to take back the rather gaudy “Oscar” that came as the prize…)
[Andrew! Isn't the wig just that added touch? And what a hot blooded Scot he was!]

I was thrilled though that my wee character ended up being the Stow away! It was his 4.5 minutes of fame! What a cad hey?

We also went ghost hunting as one of the women there can apparently see and sense them! Creepily enough she pointed to a corner and said that was where the ghost was and, when the photos of the corner were taken, we found small glowy orbs there! Eek!
Scientific explanation or not, it just fit in perfectly with everything! Thank you kindly, Ms. Ghost!
[I think the spotlight they had over the woman's loo - the men's didn't have one, I checked - was far more spooky then any ghost! Whatever was it for? to make you feel special? Do a number 2 but feel like a number 1?]

We all left feeling very proud of ourselves! It was really wonderful to dress up and be someone who is nothing like what you are in real life! I recommend it to anyone, just hey, remember to invite me too okay?
^_^