Merry Christmas to all

I cannot believe it is Christmas eve - I finished work earlier this week and Scott finally finished work on Thursday. We are spending Christmas at Scott's parents home with Scott's sister, Jen and her boyfriend, Simon as well as Nana , Great Auntie Joyce and Granpa Alex.

We have decorated the lounge tastefully and now we are all looking forward to the next few days of spending time together enjoying each other's company and some delicious food prepared by my amazing mother-in-law, Brenda and both Scott and I will be assisting her in the kitchen.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas! X

A night of murder on the Trans-Siberian Express

A few weeks ago, we hosted a Murder Mystery evening...the scene was set on the Trans-Siberian Express in the 1930's.

We invited 6 friends of ours and sent them a invitation with all the details of their characters that we chose for them to be for the evening. We had a Russian General, the General's wife, a Chinese Ambassador, Geisha girl (spy), old wise Chinaman, his daughter (another spy), a British Major and his secretary.

The host manual gave us tips on how to manage the evening and also menu suggestions but as we didn't like their suggestions, so we chose to serve:-

Starters:-
Smoked salmon with cream cheese with cavier on bellini'S

Main Course:-
Beef stroganoff with crunchy potatoes

Dessert:-
Apple and Toffee Crumble with custard

Between courses, we had to read extracts from each of the character guides and exchange information that was relevant at certain times of the evening.

The evening went well...glad to say that we were able to guess the murderer....lots of laughs were had by all as we all tried to speak in different accents some better than others.

We would definitely host another Murder Mystery evening!