Date Night

Our "date nights" have certainly changed. Our neighbor organizes a fancy Dads and Daughters Dance every year as a fundraiser for Hope and Healing. It is a nice dinner, dancing and other festivities at the top of the Columbia Tower. Marty decided to take Josie this year and so I decided Benjamin and I would have a date night, too. Here is the one and only picture of our date night. He pretty much slept, ate and pooped the whole night. Not really all that eventful.

Josie and Marty on the otherhand, got all dressed up.

And took the water taxi.

They ran up the steep hills downtown to make it to the event on time.

There were a lot of things going on. One of them was a man drawing cartoon sketches of the girls. Josie is waiting patiently for her sketch to be drawn. I should scan in the final product. It looks nothing like her. Marty says it looks like she is a television news anchor.

And then there was the dancing.

Let's just say that she gets her dancing "skills" from her father :) Maybe the ballet classes will help.

Here she is just warming up


Starting to get into it. Apparently, she was mesmerized by the lights.

And finally dancing so hard she has to hand off the corsage they gave her to Marty.

They also had a big raffle. Josie even had to call me when she first got there to tell me about the "big dolls" that she was going to win. Here she is patiently waiting for her name to be called.

It was obviously her first experience with a raffle and she was crushed when her name wasn't called. So heartbreaking to see (or hear about it second hand) tears welling up in her eyes as she says "they didn't call my name"

But in their wisdom, they had parting gift bags for everyone and she was very happy with all of the candy, stickers and other fun goodies that she got in her gift bag.
The event was a big success, too. They raised over $45,000 to go towards breat cancer treatment.