Jenny and I attended the 15th Annual Chocolate Affair at Ravens Stadium last night, our first real exposure to such a charity event, and we had a great time. Our friend Tammie is involved with the charity, Health Care for the Homeless, and was one of the organizers of what I assume must be their largest annual fundraiser. The food was terrific, although after a while we found we really needed to rein ourselves in, for fear of entering some kind of chocolate-induced coma. I think we were most impressed with the scallops with chocolate glazing - who knew scallops and chocolate would work so well together?
We also placed a couple bids on one of the silent auction items: a signed Jerry Springer photo and 4 tickets to a taping of his show!!! Alas, we were not victorious, as the winning bidder (A Mr. David Johnson) went up to $70. He was hovering around the bid sheet towards the end of the auction, so we knew that we were a long shot to take home Jerry. He was somewhat-jokingly trying to discourage us from bidding anymore, but we didn't end up going beyond $45, so we weren't his real competition. But I suppose that we did do our part to bid up the final price of the item, so even though we didn't win we helped out the charity, right?
No comments:
Post a Comment