Great Mouse Detective Parallels

This morning's KidPak was a blast, as amongst us at the Gainesville staff, one of our favorite movies is "The Great Mouse Detective."  We had this one more service that has unexpectedly popped up in our calendar to fill - we can't do our new series because of all the Easter production plans - so we had to use the "Get a Clue" theme, and were thinking of what to do for a Sunday.  So a few weeks ago, we decided to do a message themed to "The Great Mouse Detective," knowing very much that many of these kids probably hadn't seen this movie yet.  No matter - we should them all clips from the movie itself during the service, these being shown to help illustrate the three points of our message.  Of course, this parallels what we did a few years ago for a message as well, but in both cases, it wasn't one in the book, but rather something put together as a final extra fun thing.  

It was super fun, but one of my favorite things we did was bring back the entire cast to do a wild version of the game "Guess Who?"  There were trivia questions asked, and then clues given out, and one by one, suspects were eliminated.  There were ten of us on stage, and using knowledge of the skits and looking at everyone's costumes, the audience was in a race - boys versus girls - to figure out whodunit.  Our question was, "Who stole the cheese?"  In the first service, the answer was surprising.  All the adults were taken off the suspect list, and the very last one - the guilty one who took the cheese - was Maddie!  In the second service, it was perhaps just as surprising:  it was Sherlock Holmes himself.  He explained as an apology later on, "I just really like Gouda!"

It was a fun morning at KidPak.  We got home, and had some tika masala together, and then we kept moving. Maddie was getting a shower, and then studying for a biology test.  Nana and I were off to the Tractor Supply place to get some more mealworms, because our bluebird couple is sitting there on the back deck tapping their toes impatiently waiting for a refill of mealworms that we didn't have in the house.  

Tonight's small group was good - Maddie was online with Camille and her friends for a couple hours this evening.  But after that, it became mandatory that we finish the series, "Parallels," which we did.  Firstly, and I just talk about the coincidence that we just celebrated "International French Language Day?"  The show is French, and it was really well done.  

We raced through all six episodes this weekend, after just checking out one episode to see if it was any good.  We quickly finished the other five episodes in two days.  

Time for bed was here, with of course reading first.  The Kingdom Keepers are in a spooky graveyard, attempting to uncover what's going on.  Along the way though, there seems to be a little problem there with zombies.  Yikes!

We said our prayers tonight afterwards, and we'll have to find out tomorrow about the zombies.  In the meantime, it's time to get to bed early:  tomorrow I've got a heart appointment, and Maddie's got school again.