Murder Mystery Dinner

I have been meaning to post about this forever but never got around to it until now. Chris's calling in our ward is "Scout Commitee Finance Chairman something or other" and so he was in charge of the single fundraiser that the Scouts would be doing this year to earn their money for Scout camp. We had been to a fun Murder Mystery Dinner at our neighbor's house (thanks Pete and Sandy for being our inspiration) and thought it would be a fun way to get everyone involved. Little did we know how much time and effort it would require. The Monday before the dinner Chris worked from 9 am to 11 pm on nothing else. And that was after he had made sign up sheets, announcements... You get the idea. It was a lot of work. But in the end it all paid off.
We had pulled pork and a big potato bar (Thank you, Taylor Produce for donating the 'taters) with Texas Fudge Brownies for dessert. Yum! The Scouts had to help set up, clear plates, refill pitchers of punch and clean up. This was a challenge. Getting teenage boys to do about a million dishes by hand was...interesting. At one point I tied one of the boys to the cupboards around him. It was pretty funny. All the other boys were taking pictures of him with their cell phones Ü.
Chris chose a mystery that was set in the Old West because we figured it would be easier to find those kind of costumes then anything else. There were 24 main characters so he gave one character to each couple and had the spouses support each other. It worked really well. Some of the supporting people were more into it than the actual characters Ü. The night ended great although at the end we forgot to talk about who achieved their goals and how. I'm told that Lindsey still thinks she had the real maps even though they were fake. Here are a bunch of pictures but I'm not going to do commentary. Thanks again to everyone who came to support our boy scouts. We're looking forward to next year!