The Winner Takes It All

Hey

Although my exams start this week, the end of last week saw the Sports Fed Ball arrive. After weeks of just revising, I needed an evening off and it meant I could catch up with the fencing lot which I hadn't seen for a while.

First thing when it comes to Balls for girls is what dress to wear?? And it took me a while to find on. I dragged my mum round Norwich for a day when I was home for Easter, and couldn't find anything I liked. I didn't even really know what I was looking for. So after a google for shops, we set off to find a dress shop, and was relieved when it was actually a shop not someone's house (as it was among lots of houses). After trying on I don't know how many dresses both long and short (was looking for 2 but only got 1 in the end), I settled on a to the floor plum ball gown that had one shoulder.

On the night, we drove past the hotel and couple of times before noticing the turn off for it as we were turning down a road. When we finally got there, at least it wasn't raining as it would have wrecked the bottom of my dress.

Some of the Fencing Gang

The night was good. There was a photograph taking photos for the night doing both team shots and couples. The black backdrop wasn't good for showing up colours of dresses (mine looked black). It was a nice touch that all the tables were named after the Olmpic years and venues. When we finally sat down to eat it was fun to see that they had sweet on the table to eat and that each person was provided with a winner's medal. It seemed to take ages to eat, as between each course came the awards. There is alot of sports club at Brunel so it takes a long team to go through them all. At least it was amazing seeing the presenter trying to pronounce some the names of students. There also seemed to be an informal cheering competition going on. Think the hockey teams won! We also discovered that wine isn't friends with Fran, it gets her too tipsy too quickly for her liking :)

Reminds me of Minnie Mouse's bow

After the meal was over there was more photos, dancing and we'd all been given paper money to play on some casino tables (2 black jacks and 2 roulette) with and who ever had the most at the end of the night won a lovely cuddly bunny!! At least I got a good at betting. Wouldn't say I was too bad for a beginner.

Me and Fran

The Fencing Girlies!!

xxx