MYSTERY DINNER

What is a "Mystery Dinner"?

Today, Debra and I participated in our first Mystery Dinner. About forty of us from church gathered at Richard and Barbara's house and piled into several cars. We left the house and traveled as a caravan through a pre-determined route known only by those who organized the event.

Each passenger in each car, except the driver, was a "detective". The driver was to focus on the road and stay with the caravan. The detectives were given a list of questions about landmarks on the route. The car, or team, answering the most questions correctly would receive a prize at the end of the event at some unknown restaurant, which was to be our final destination.

After about an hour, the caravan stopped, took a break, turned in their answer sheets, and were given a second questionnaire for the remainder of the journey.

During this second leg of the event, we stopped for about an hour at Gary West Smoked Meats, a beef jerky company in Jacksonville where we were given a tour and a bunch of samples for snacking: jerky, cheese, fudge, chips and salsa.

Here is an example of the types of questions we answered along the way: After arriving at a particular intersection in Jacksonville, in front of a particular house, one of the questions on the questionnaire was "What famous clown lived in this house?" The four in our car could only think of one famous clown. We wrote the name "Bozo" on the answer sheet. We were right!

Finally, after driving through Medford and Jacksonville and completing all the questions, we arrived at La Fiesta Restaurant. Debra and I both enjoyed an order of seafood tacos.

And, oh, yeah, our team got the most right answers and won the prize: A big bag of kettle popcorn and some colorful spring flowers to plant in our gardens.

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We began the Mystery Dinner event at Richard and Barbara's house.

After completing the fourteen mystery questions on the first questionnaire, we took a break before launching out with our second list of mystery questions to answer.

From the balcony at Gary West Smoked Meats, I took pictures of some of my favorite people.