Broken Silence Ball

Last night was the annual Broken Silence Ball.  The Broken Silence Foundation holds a charity ball every year to raise funds to support the National Hearing Screening project.  This is the first year Jason and I have gone to the event and it was a blast.  This years theme was fairytale in a winter wonderland so Jason and I dressed up as snowman/woman.  The other costumes worn last night were amazing.  Some people really went all out and only a very few did not dress up but chose to wear black tie.  It is quite a party and a lot of money is raised.  During the evening there is a silent auction, a live auction, a tombola as well as a three course meal, drinks and dancing.  The items up for auction were amazing such as tickets to South Africa with hotel and game rides.  They were all out of our price range but I'm happy there were people there with money to spend so that the charity can raise a lot of money.  One of the auction prizes went for 220,000CZK ($11,800USD) so I think the charity will be very happy with the funds it raised last night.  The ball was held at a nice restaurant also so the food was actually good.  It was open bar so the drinks flowed all around....from the bar or the vodka flume or the servers walking around with trays of drinks.  Also one of the men sitting at our table works for Red Bull so he had the red bull and vodka filling up everyone's glasses at our table.  Given my experience at the 80's party we went to I kept the alcohol to a minimum last night so I did not have a repeat experience.  It was much easier to get up on four hours sleep without a  lot of alcohol that is for sure!