I have Ball pictures!!!
Pre-ball photo shoot in the gardens outside my flat:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 212452.jpg
(a bad pic of me but it shows the detail on my dress!!)
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 212579.jpg
the obligatory Charlie's angels pose with my beloved flatmates (it was a masquerade ball):
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 212584.jpg
my college husband does his own interpretation of 'masque':
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 64040_.jpg
meanwhile, i search for potential suitors (I got college divorced) in the crowd...:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 64036_.jpg
... and then the ball began! with a champagne reception, and then fruit, which doesn't sound extravagant but...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 365176.jpg
Next, we visited antarctica. The one in third court, that is...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 365177.jpg
2 am - a carousel ride (had to side saddle in my dress. Very lady-like)!
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 365182.jpg
Eating waffles with some friends beside an enormous, rotating, glowing globe at 3 am (as one does):
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 212459.jpg
and then at 5, things got a bit trippy when we discovered picture frames hanging about the forest:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v625/ ... 253599.jpg
needless to say, both Balls were soooo coooooooooooooooooooool....