New Years Eve - A Murder

We were pretty excited to ring in the New Year with a dinner and a murder. We invited over a few friends and got to planning.

Since the Murder Mystery was Christmas themed, the decorations were all ready to go. Jason just needed to fix our little star that never seems to stay on top of the tree...

We made name tags and made sure the table was set to go.

Then it was time for the most important part - our guests to arrive! 

Or in this case, the suspects...

Gordon and Vicky

Kay and Shana (Yes, we are aware you cannot see Kay; it was all in character)

Constanza and Kiever

And of course...the hosts!

We are pretty fortunate to have friends who are such good sports. It was a fun evening. Turns out that Jason was the mastermind behind the whole thing and dragged two other guys into his crazy murderous plot.

When it came time to ring in the New Year, we did it Spanish style. Thanks to Constanza we learned that in Spain you eat twelve grapes when the clock tolls midnight; one with each toll. Well, we were fresh out of grapes so we subbed mandarine orange slices instead and loaded the live feed from Spain onto the computer. Eating twelve slices of orange in a short amount of time is not the easiest thing, but it was so fun to do something new. It is one tradition that we will probably keep. Thanks Constanza!

Of course there were fireworks, but it clouded over pretty quickly. And while there are certainly more fireworks here than we have ever had in Canada it still does not compare to the ones in The Netherlands. We will surely never forget the New Year's Eves that we spent there!

As the evening came to a close, we bid our guests a safe journey home and talked about goals for the New Year as we cleaned up. Perhaps we'll share a little more about those goals on another day.

We hope everyone had a wonderful time ringing in the New Year!