Military Monday: Air Force Ball

The theme for Military Monday is about the Military Ball, so I thought I would share my most recent experience at an Air Force Ball.

Back in September I went to my first "real" Air Force Ball. I have attended others before, but they were back at USU with the ROTC program.

I'm glad they don't have a lot of these... mostly because it was $60 a plate, each. So we had to shell out a lot of money to go to a "required" event that most people don't even attend. Although enjoyable, the food was definitely not worth 60 dollas.

Something neat up here that is available on our base is a dress rental for formal Air Force events.

Although I don't have a large collection of nice dresses, I didn't end up using it because my mom shipped one of my dresses up that I wore to Senior Ball back in High School. I love this dress. When I first got it, I thought to myself that when I was ready to get married I would get the white version of it. Totally forgot about that until just now. Oh well, I LOVED my wedding dress too.

Brig got all snazzy in his "Mess Dress." That is what they call their formal attire. It's a bit expensive, and required for Officers to purchase. I learned that night that it isn't required for enlisted members to purchase the Mess Dress.

Here are 2 other officers that are up here as Civil Engineers.


And here is another officer Brig works with.


I took a picture of my place setting. It just looked so official.

The star means I got the halibut.

The evening was wonderful. After the meal, and presentation, etc. there was dancing!

Oh, how I love dancing with Brig. He's a fabulous dancer and I was winded after the first song. We only stayed for the first couple songs, because by that time it was already 10:00 and we didn't want to leave our friends in charge of our little guy all night.

It was fun to dress up and act like a princess for a night.