"What happens at the Ball, stays at the Ball."

Last night was the 2011 RIT Presidents' Alumni Ball, WOOOOOO!!

As the title of this post suggests, I won't get too far into details about the events which took place at the Ball. ;-) But, I can say that it is one of my favorite events all year and we always manage to outdo ourselves somehow. We had 9 alumni, 8 current undergrad and grad students, and 3 faculty at our two CIS tables. A mix-up resulted in our tables not being adjacent to each other, which was a bummer, but we all still had a ton of fun anyways.

The evening began with a cocktail reception where everyone got to mingle, snack on hors d'oeurves, and get their picture taken with Ritchie (all decked out in his bow tie!). Afterward we moved on to a 3 course, way delicious dinner - this year our main course was surf & turf, filet mignon and salmon - mmmmm. During the dinner there were presentations going on up front at the stage, and they also showed some videos - one of which had me in it! (Totally random.) After dinner the live band came out (this year the musical genre was Motown) and the "vegas-style" games began. I started out with a little dancing, but I'm not really a big fan of Motown, so I went and played some Texas Hold 'Em instead, and I was a big winner - $400k! Okay, that's an exaggeration - we had a very generous dealer - but I did win a few big hands. The dollars were exchanged for raffle tickets at the end of the night, but unfortunately none of us won anything. Though, a few of us may have made off with some of the centerpieces... My lips are sealed on that. Anyways, always an amazing time, and as usual I am now suffering Ball Withdrawal. So I'm going to go play some Hold 'Em to help cope.

A bunch of the gang with Ritchie!

More pictures are posted on the CIS Picasa site. (Psst... even more can be found on the CIS Facebook page.)

Stay tuned for my third installment of Brick City Adventures: The Brick City 5k!