It is no secret that my kids just love to act. It blesses my heart that they have both found their people in high school. Friend groups who share a similar love for dressing up, exercising their creativity, and being goofy just for fun! One Christmas Break goal was for both girls to host another Murder Mystery Party. Delia did this when she turned 14, but has since added lots of new friends to her group and Ella has never done it with her friends.
Delia's party was a Christmas themed murder. These 8 Drama kids went ALL out with their costumes and characters, creating a hilarious night! Though the emotionless, cheese-serving butler, narcissistic pop diva, split-personality, oddball writer, cutthroat business investor, angelic former child-star, and sweet, Southern cook certainly drew suspicions...t'was Santa who was the killer, by the Christmas tree with the industrial strength tinsel! (Funny fact about Santa: she's wearing her GRANDMA's shorts with the Ho Ho Ho on the bottom! We were dying!) Delia loved playing the part of Yule Groan, a cheesy, Christmas-joke-telling comedian who had a whole notebook of groan-worthy jokes she had researched ahead of time to drop into conversation. This kit only had 8 characters, so Ella expertly played the part of narrator/host.
A few nights later Ella hosted her friends. revisiting the Murder on the Train. Admittedly the murder storyline in this particular one was kind of a bust, but the group still had a ton of fun adlibbing, accusing, and playing up the drama. I'd expect nothing less from this seasoned group of senior actors! This night's funniest memory: the widow of the victim pulling out her deceased husband's picture to weep over. It was a picture of a ripped, ab-revealing Chris Helmsworth!
Just have to post a closeup of Ella and Delia's costumes for the second party-- probably some of their most fun! Delia was Houdunni, the illusionist who can make your problems (like a dead body perhaps?) disappear! And Ella was the hilarious Indiana Jones-like archeologist who has acrophobia, arachnophobia, ophiophobia, and host of other phobias. Watching these parties unfold is like watching a play, or better yet, an improv performance. As you can image, it is great fun to be a spectator, delighting in our kids' imaginations, quick wits, and awesome groups of friends!
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