Month: February 2015

This was day two of the mystery. There were not as many people roaming the streets today, but many of them had had more time to examine the clues and they were asking tougher questions. Plus, they had heard all of my jokes so it was a little awkward having them give the punch-line.

The big reveal also happened today, but mostly I sat on stage in the second row while my puppet caused havoc with the people in the first row. I was, of course, not the murderer. However, I did hide a snake in the victim’s purse, which bit her, leaving two small puncture wounds that most people thought caused her death.

After the reveal we went to a spaghetti feed with many of the other actors. It was a good end to a great weekend. Tomorrow it is back to the real world, and then back to work on Tuesday. This was a fun weekend adventure.

I was a little nervous going into the day since I was supposed to be a comedian and ventriloquist, and I’m not very good at either of these things. However, it didn’t seem to matter that my jokes were corny and my ventriloquism was atrocious. The kids and adults loved Frank Lee Speaking, except for a couple kids just above toddler who were afraid of him, and people laughed at my jokes. It might have even helped that they were corny.

I walked around all day, although I only got 10,000 steps. I had to do some searching for Mona’s to get my mocha, but I did find it, and it was good. I had a group of four younger boys who really grilled me and got quite a bit of information. I was very impressed, but think I may have mislead them a little. I will feel bad if I did. It was a lot of fun talking to everyone, and I think Sarah actually wants to try it next year.

We are scheduled to go out to dinner tonight at 6:30, but I am still pretty full from my mocha. It has been a good day.

The Langley Murder Mystery weekend is finally here. I have headed to Whidbey Island twice now for information and photos, but now the murder has happened, and as Sherlock is known to say, the game is afoot.

We picked Sarah’s parents up at the airport. We were pretty late because of packing and having to get a school application in for Sarah. Their plane was also early. However, we eventually got there, and headed for Bellevue, where we had lunch at Din Tai Fung. I think Sarah’s parents really enjoyed it.

From there, we headed for the ferry, and only had to wait about 15 minutes. We got to town and actually managed to sign up for the mystery early. After the cocktail reception at the Saratoga Inn, Sarah and I sat down in the common area and studied–she the newspaper, and me my character. I am surprised by the amount of information that I had, and needed to get my life together, so I knew what I had done. In addition, I needed to come up with several jokes, as I am supposed to be an aspiring comedian. That is the part that I am most worried about, since I’m not too good with jokes anymore. I’m sure I’ll do fine, though.