ASYO Ball

Yesterday was ASYO Ball!

Everything was perfect. Everyone looked beautiful, Arthur Blank's house was beautiful (and big...and extravagant...and...sigh...), the ASYO tent looked beautiful. The food was okay.

I rode with Gracie Sommer, Ray Kim, Mrs. Sommer and a bunch of decorative plants to the house, where we arrived an hour to set up the decorations and had a battle, balloons/ASYO Ball committee vs. the wind.

Mrs. Sommer gave us a bowl and a stack of paper slips and told us to enter our name for a drawing. The prizes were cute and musical: musical socks, staff paper, and musical pocket dictionary. I wanted the socks.

Ray entered his name 10 times. Clearly he felt very satisfied about his devious actions.

The tour of the house was amazing. Live parakeets, fancy alcohol, and jelly beans were part of the decorations...Emily Brooks and I found a bowl of popcorn and m&m's and we spent a few moments trying to decide if it was save to eat.

My favorite rooms in the house:

The library: because it had a rug...with GLITTER in it!

The boy's room: it had brown fur carpet, a strobe light, the popcorn and m&m bowl, and a bathrobe with the name "Ringo" on it in the bathroom. There was also a mirror that magnified your face like 50 times. (The girl's room sucked...relatively)

The children's activities room: It...was....beautiful. It was like a picture out of an I Spy book, with windows and tiny little desks and jars of clay and Legos and candy and a HUGE teddy bear. There's a window between the children's room and the boy's room, and Drew Forde was yelling into the window at some people on the other side, "LOOK IN THE MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM. GO, LOOK!" When I went from the children's room back to the boy's room, the people inside were yelling back, "I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. WE CAN'T HEAR YOU."

The laundry room (yeah): Even the laundry room was nice. They had a mannequin in there and Drew confidently proclaimed that she had C-cups.

The lake had a beautiful gazebo made entirely of wood with a bench swing and rocking chair, and along the sides of the water were statues of naked women. That was nice too.

There was a tiny kid's playground near the tent with a mini merry-go-round, and I've never heard boys scream louder.

Anyways, the ball started at six and we started with dinner and prize drawings. Some of the winners were Sodie Finebone, Moe Winograd, and Alex Chumbley. Rachel Halverson won the pocket dictionary! I WON THE SOCKS!

Ray won nothing. :)

I felt bad for the DJ because for the first two hours, a max number of 6 people would be on the dance floor at a time. After 8, not a single person at the ball was off of the dance floor. It got really hot and sweaty but we had so much fun. We formed a human train that took us to the end of the last song.

This night was really special to me because I've never gone to prom. I never really wanted to because I'm sure Walton prom would've been more of an awkward experience rather than a special one...but I've always wished for that special prom experience, and ASYO Ball was definitely it. It reminds me that ASYO is so good to me. Thanks to everyone for a wonderful wonderful wonderful evening, and year as well! <3

"If you pee out of a penis, why don't you poo out of a poonis?" - Rachel Halverson