This last week we did our biggest fundraiser yet. A murder mystery dinner. The preperations for this dinner were crazy. we had to buy a a story line and get some of taechers to donate thier time for our actors. The theme was a murder on maui. We started to sell tickets about two weeks before the dinner, and at first no one was buying. we were seriously worried that the event could be a flop. We also ordered decorations two weeks before the dinner, and payed express shipping so there would be here about 4 days later. Unfortunately the decorations didn't show up, we had to search all across humboldt county for any kind of hawaiian decorations. about 5 days before the dinner, tickets started selling and we knew it would be a hit.We started our prep for the dinner the day before. we marinated our chicken, made our tart dough and our ice cream, made our salad dressing. Thursday we started putting stuff together. We cooked our pork down for hours, and made the dough for the hawwaiian dinner rolls. we also made our pineapple gravy to accompany our chicken skewers.
At four o'clock we started to decorate the cafeteria, and put together our auction. For the auction we had a ton of stuff donated to be auctioned off. we had snow boarding boots, a piano, a jacket, a teddy bear and a hat made of alpacca hair, we had a car care basket including a twenty dollar gas card, a movie basket including a thirty dollar gift card to spotlight video rental.we had alot more donations but it would take forever to list them all. As well as all of our donations we also had people make home made desserts, to put up for auction. By the end of the night the highest sold item was a white chocolate cheesecake that went for a hundred dollars.
when we were serving dinner it got a little chaotic. we were serving the coarses as fast as we could and the people were loving the food, well except for the salad dressing. We kinda forgot to tell people that it was a little spicy and people weren't to happy about that. But in the the dinner was a success. our total profit was about $1800 dollars. We are completely done fundraising for New York so this money all goes toward the account for next year.
