We recently were invited by some great friends to The Great Canadian Snow Ball!! Pretty much every country has their own ball each year put on either by the embassy or a group of people from that country. So, we took the opportunity to get jazzed up and went out to the Ritz for a night of dinner, dancing!
The cocktail room was pretty impressive.
Our table, the place setting up close and the different provinces of Canada
I sang "O Canada" in order not to be ousted from the Canadian Ball but my other American friends made fun of me...I was just trying to be patriotic for our neighboring North American Country :) 
Friends, only 50% of them are Canadian
They took the dessert seriously.
Eric's new friend...he flew in from Dubai just for the ball! Of course Eric was grilling him trying to find out information for our upcoming trip to Dubai.
:) Between the two of us, we've got the "dress code" of white, red and/or gold covered. People did take it seriously though. One woman, who looked gorgeous, had an entire gold sequin dress on with a white boa and a red hair extension. Any other person couldn't pull it off, but she did. She had the most beautiful silver hair. I wish I could have taken a photo but thought it would be a bit awkward.
Love this photo.
Another Jennifer and friend from the American School.
Sunam, Tara and me...not a bad photo...except for Rob's scary face! Jimmy is laughing in the background.
Lauren and Rob-the Canadians and the reason we were at the ball. Lauren was on the planning committee...yeah Lauren! Next ball is the Canadian Thanksgiving in October :)
Diehard Canadians Karolee, Lauren, Rob and Chad.
Twins
Me and Lauren....Getting silly with the camera
Much nicer
At this point, we did much more dancing and those photos are just not even worth sharing. We ended the night around 1am with a free cab ride home provided with the purchase of our ticket...not a bad deal! Looking forward to the next ball :) 
