Book Club

I hosted book club at my house this month.  We read "Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia" (I got to pick since it was at my house).  We had like 10 ladies show up and had a great discussion.  I love Sherlock.  I've read them all and enjoy the movies.  But right now I am on a BBC Sherlock kick.  Wasn't the season 3 opener great!  The montage of his clients and their random problems are actually references to a bunch of the mysteries from the book.  And Jake really liked how he used a disguise in this episode (since that's a strength of the character in the book.)  but I digress...

I waited til the girls were in bed to clean the kitchen, floors, and bathroom.  I was scrambling to get it all organized.  Laura brought her popcorn popper machine and we used coconut oil to pop the kernels - yum!

In "A Scandal in Bohemia" Sherlock tells Watson that "You see, but you do not observe." He points out that Watson walks up the staircase every day yet has no idea how many stairs there are.  I thought this was an interesting point so I decided to make a game of it.  Before everyone came over I left out 10 different toys on the floor.  During the evening I even moved them around and kind of kicked them so they were in the middle of the circle.  Then after 2 hours I passed out pens and paper then took a blanket and covered it up.  We had already discussed the see/observe passage so I brought it up again.  Then I told them there were 10 toys they had all seen.  But had they observed?  Then I had them write down as many toys as they could remember.  It worked perfectly!  They commented on how they were staring at the toys during the conversation but now couldn't recall them.  I think the most anyone got were 3!  It was a relaxing evening with my friends - even if the twins made an appearance at the end - I think we were laughing a little loud.  ;-)