March 13, 2017
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Looking at Minions
This last Saturday was another Trivia night at church. We went with our usual
suspectsteam members - Mary and Ryan, Mary's sister and BIL (Jill & Hank), Sue, Phil, and Christy and Craig to round out the team. The theme for Trivia was "animation" and we were all supposed to dress up as our favorite animated characters. Well, Sparky and I decided to go as Minions. In fact, Mary liked the idea and so the whole team dressed as Minions! I made the Minion eyes and my costume and Sparky's hood, and put together Dr. Nefario's costume too. Ryan was Gru and Phil was Dr. Nefario. I went as an evil Minion. The categories were interesting and we did fairly well. After 6 rounds we were in 3rd place. But the 7th round killed us. The topic was Movie Release Dates. We were given a xeroxed sheet with 10 movies and we had to determine the year they came out within 2 years (before or after). They only gave us 10 minutes. We were right on with 4 of our answers but all the rest were off by 3 or 4 years. We blew it. The last 2 rounds were great and we managed to get 10 out or 10 in each of them. However it was a tight race with only a half a point separating the top 4 teams. We finished out of the money. If there would have been an award for best costumes or best food we would have been the runaway winners!
These cupcakes were too cute! Mary really went all out and made sloppy joes too! I made banana pudding with Nilla Wafers and a killer cheddar cheese dip with dried cherries on top. Sue brought sweet and sour cucumber slices and veggies and dip. Jill made Minion eyes - pretzels with blue or yellow chocolate circle irises with icing pupils. Christy made brownies with minion faces. It was all tasty!
Here is the group photo! L to R: Gru (Ryan) is on the end . Jill was the baby Minion with a teddy bear. Mary was in front. I'm the evil one strangling Christy! Sue is hiding behind Christy. The back row was Dr. Nefario (Phil) standing next to Hank, then Sparky and finally Craig. As you can see we were having a great time!!
Comments (8)
That looks like a lot of fun -- I love the creativity, particularly in the cupcakes!
I think we were the only group to put any effort into the costumes. There was one group all wearing Mickey Mouse shirts and another that decided to dress for St. Patty's Day - lots of green and shamrock beads and plastic hats! We had a lot of fun!
It looks like you guys had a lot of fun! I wouldn't have been any help on movie release dates. Entertainment was always my weakest category in Trivial Pursuit.
I think we would have done better on that one but with only 10 minutes to work in it got a little crazy. We had a blast anyway and were able to get done and out the door at 9:30 PM!
I like that your trivia nights are themed, and that you share the costumes with us.
We like to have fun even if we didn't win. It is super cheap entertainment and it benefits the church too!
Oh my the work for the cupcakes! Clever people too. I don't even know the name of the minions so I wouldn't be a help in trivia. LOL
We didn't have a single minion question! It was sort of disappointing. We did have to name the 7 dwarves and all of Santa's reindeer...