children’s advocacy center fundraiser

Thursday, February 25, 2010 Posted in other

This year for Valentine’s Day, we were invited to attend the 10th annual Champagne & Diamonds fundraiser ball for the Children’s Advocacy Center. Our friend Donna from the Chocolate Connection invited us and we were able to take some photos of her marvelous chocolate fountain setup. We also took some other pictures of evening… the decorations, the food, and the people. It was held in the Cactus Hotel Ballroom and the decorations were beautiful. They had a silent auction going on in the mezzanine area, but the real money maker was inside the ballroom. I’ll have to admit, this fundraiser is a brilliant idea. What they do (every year) is have 100 glasses of champagne, each of which is filled with a Cubic Zirconium. Well.. all except one, that is. One glass actually has a real diamond in it. (A huge thanks to Legend Jewelers for donating the diamond each year!) They sell the glasses of champagne throughout the course of the evening and dinner. Once they all have been sold, they have two gentleman that go around to each table and test each “CZ” to see if it’s the real deal. It gets a bit exciting and intense as you wait to see if your the winner! I was really hoping someone from our table would win because they were all great people. But unfortunately, the man came and went, with no luck. It actually got pretty close to the end before they found the winning glass. The ironic thing is, that in the past 10 years this event has been held… this is the second time the winner has won the diamond! Talk about lucky!!! Someone needs to take her to Vegas! All in all, it was a wonderful evening. Thanks to Donna for inviting us and to Colin for taking me!

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