The Downton Dinner

At 6pm our guests starting arriving. Since this was a theme party everyone was in some sort of Downton Abbey dress. Dale played the part of Mr. Carson and I was Mrs. Hughes. Our friends Ross and Janice had pre-arranged with us to be Lord and Lady Grantham. Tom just came in from hunting so was in his hunting garb complete with a chicken (rubber that squeaked when touched). Lots of laughs from that one!

Dale announced that dinner was served. Our friend Dolly was the guest of honor and walked into the dining room on Ross’ arm. Everyone was seated appropriately, husbands and wives separated and in their proper place according to rank.

We sat down just a few minutes late for our soup course which did make everything run a little late. It was about 8:45 when we really needed to get our dessert course on as Downton started at 9pm. We would have to give up the cheese course.

We encouraged 2 of our friends to stop talking and eat quickly so we could have our desert. We put Downton on Pause for the few minutes we took to finish our dessert.

We were all so stuffed that skipping the cheese course was not all bad. All in all it was a good party.