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Naval Ball 2013

Last night Matthew and  I went to our first Navy Ball.  We got to get all dressed up and looking sharp to head out for a fun night at a fancy hotel.  Special shout out to my girl Jackie P. for helping me with my hair, she made it look great! :)  Matthew was looking great in his dress whites with all his metals and ribbons!  We took some pictures but I just realized looking back through my pictures that we didn't get any full body shots.  Oh well, maybe one will turn up, hopefully.  So here are the pics from the night:


There were about 40 tables set up in the ball room at the Hyatt hotel.


We watched some videos that highlighted some of the past events that the Navy has done on Guam.


We gave toasts for just about every higher up you could think of!






There was lots of good food.  It was served buffet style and you could only go up once so we filled our plates with a little bit of everything.


They had a couple souvenirs on the table.  One was this coin, it will be Matthew's third coin to add to his collection. 


They also had commemorative glasses at the table but we decided not to take ours because we knew we would never use them and they would just sit in our cabinets gathering dust.


There is this tradition at every ball that the oldest and youngest sailors cut the cake.  It was pretty funny trying to find the youngest and oldest service members in the room.




We had a little show (which we could hear but not really see) where the guy in the front left was spinning a bayonet around.  




After all the ceremony stuff was done there was a DJ that played some pretty good music and a lot of people got up and danced.


This is the cake that they had made for the ceremony.


Overall Matthew and I had a great time.  We ate some good food, had some good conversation with friends and danced into the evening.  I ended up wearing flats so my feet would not hurt!  Made for a great night.

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