What have you squirreled away?

An upcoming event or activity can be a lot of fun on its own, but sometimes I think people don’t realize how much fun preparing for said event can be!
For us it’s the Mystery Dinner we’ve been invited to next week Saturday! This has caused a small but most enjoyable, merry uproar in our cottage that has kept us busy most of this weekend!

See at this dinner we each have to dress up as a certain character. We’re given cards with clues on as to what this character should be like – Personality / Country of Origin / Secrets…. We even have favorite bands that we have to learn a song from. (You only need a verse or two, I suspect that’s because ears can only take the hashing to death of well known melodies so far).
Each person keeps their identity secret from the other and you try and guess at the function who is what and what they’ve done to whom where and why!

Now Ursh and I share everything, so straight away this, “daring secret” had us all over excited. We’ve been separately plotting, histories and lifestyles and names for these characters to the point where it’s going to be hard to believe they didn’t once exist, somewhere.

Then there’s the best part! Costumes!!


Now you don’t want to go spending a fortune on hiring one, or buying so many things that you can barely walk wearing them all, but it’s still grand to go about a costume shop peeking at everything they have! Masks, props, hats, even fake eyelashes of a thousand varieties!! I could live in a costume shop!! (There was a squirrel costume, complete with furry head, that I saw at the back of the shop, one day, some day, I will wear that!!)

We also scavenged within our wardrobes to find bits and pieces to fit together. (I put gel in my hair for the first time and was horrified at how crunchy it went! It was like having a biscuit nesting on my head)!

When we finally had our gear together we did a small fashion show for Ursh’s folks. They thought our outfits looked very flashy which was a spine tingling achievement on our part! Hooray!!

And now we wait! Aaargh, the wait, the wait! But I’ve packed everything up and out of reach. (Otherwise you get the urge to fiddle and before you know it you break something and are plunged into the depths of despair, it happens all the time).

I’ll let you know how it turns out!
See you in a week’s time!!

Au revoir!
Sayonara!
Ciao!

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