My Weekend West Day 1

I have just come home from a great weekend in the West Midlands!! Travelling around the Midlands doesn’t sound great when you think about it but trust me it really was.

We set off Friday morning on the 3 hour car journey to Birmingham which was our first stop, thankfully my cousin Sam was driving!

We had booked ourselves onto a Murder Mystery evening at the Menzies Birmingham City Strathallan Hotel, which was very exciting and intriguing as we didn’t know what to expect!

From the outside the hotel didn’t look great 2 things passed my mind, Prison/Car Park looking building but as we entered that all changed! It was a 4* Hotel which in my opinion was correct as the rooms were great and finally a hotel where the Wi-Fi was free and actually worked!

I literally spent my whole afternoon/early evening in the bath watching The Great Gatsby and drinking Prosecco.

Finally once the bath water had turned cold, Gatsby had finished and my Prosecco bottle was empty I started to get ready for the nights shenanigans!!

As the Murder Mystery theme was a wedding reception, I wanted to look smart yes casual so I went for Shoes, Skinny Jeans, Shirt and Jumper.

Jeans & Jumper by H&M | Shoes by Next & Shirt by Ralph Lauren.

This look was great, as I was comfortable and looked smart sitting at the dinner table.

The evening was great, and the actors were so realistic! It really did feel like I was just at another family wedding minus the murders, also the 3 course set dinner was so tasty!

Starter; Sweet potato & Chilli soup, with chive crème fraîche.

Main; Breast of chicken, tomato & basil sauce with mozzarella glaze.

Dessert; Blueberry cheesecake with fruit coulis.

Here is a video I took of the final scene at the Murder Mystery evening, sorry it’s not great but I had drank a whole bottle of Prosecco, beers, wine and Green Frog beforehand.

If you ever get chance to go on a Murder Mystery evening, GO FOR IT! They are always on GroupOn.