Between Christmas and New Years we took part in a murder mystery party. It was pirate themed as you can tell from the picture. I was the admiral, while Andrea was a pirate captain. Thilo was one of my ship's mates. Alex was the governor, while Doro was his daughter and Kathrin was the daughter's governess. Peter (not pictured) played a hermit from the neighboring island. Stefan was the ship's doctor.


Well we arrived on the island to look for pirate treasure and found the dead body of the hermit. We had to find out who did it.






Spoiler alert! Do not read further if you think you are going to do this murder mystery from KRIMItotal
Turns out the hermit was the dread pirate Captain Black, who I had supposedly killed, and thereby got my promotion to admiral. Well the governor had been working with him all along. He found the hermit first and killed him because he wanted the treasure for himself. I found the body and hid it because I did not want anyone to know that the hermit was the pirate I had supposedly killed months ago. Then people would learn that I did not get my facial scar in a fight with the pirate, but rather by slipping in my cabin. Michael, the other pirate, was here because the piratess and her crew had mutinied and thrown him off the ship some weeks ago. Well, Andrea, the piratess, soon found herself in the same situation. Both knew that finding the treasure would be helpful to their own cause. The governor's daughter just wanted to have adventure, she did not want to marry the admiral with whom the governor had arranged a secret engagement. She fell in love with the ship's mate who was really working for the pirate (Michael). He had hoped to find the treasure and run off with Elizabeth. The governess just wanted to protect her ward. The hermitess just wanted people to stop coming to her island!

Kathrin and Peter took this photo of Cleo when they cat-sat her last summer. She has *ahem* put on some weight since then.