As if the bake sale last week, Wednesday, wasn’t enough, I bought tickets to a formal charity ball held at the Crowne Plaza (about 5 blocks from where I live) here in Blanchardstown, Ireland. The charity ball was in support of the Laura Lynn foundation. They run the first hospice house for terminally ill children, which was opened here in 2011. (In the USA, these are usually run by the Ronald McDonald House or the Shriners Club.)

You can find out more about the Laura Lynn charity, hospice house, and donate here: http://www.sunshinehome.ie/lauralynn-house.html

Tickets to the ball were very reasonable at 50 Euros each (30 Euros for those of us where I work because we were offering some prizes for the raffle) and included a 4 course meal. There was also a fabulous singer, dj, and a raffle the night of.

Thing is that despite telling the guys on my team that they’d get some massive brownie points if they took their girlfriends, they all declined. When I arrived at the Ball (with 3 other lovely ladies) I had to giggle. The place was about 10 beautiful ladies dressed in ball gowns and looking gorgeous – to 1 man per table! Above you can see me, Diana and Sylvia; Below it’s Me, Jacqui and Sylvia.

We had a great evening (Men out there – really, if you wanted to meet women – this is for sure the place to do it – as they all wanted to be Cinderella for the eve!) despite the drought of men – eating, dancing, and laughing at the fact that none of our “yellow” book raffle tickets were drawn. (They had different color tickets that were drawn from all over the crowd. for prizes worth up to 500 euros!)

By the time I got home at 3am, my feet hurt, and I was ready to climb out of the restrictive garments that make us all look so good – and into my PJs, have a cup of tea, and head off to dreamland.