I love going to fun events that are also for a good cause ~ it’s so win/win. Last night, we enjoyed a great night at the 9th Annual Guam Women’s Club Wine Tasting and Silent Auction. I was expecting the usual drop of wine to taste and a cheese & cracker spread. Silly me, I should have known that here on Guam, like in Hawaii, lots of food is the norm. And the wine tasting was really an open wine bar 🙂 The food was catered by the Outrigger Resort and I can’t get over how much food was served the entire time we were there. There was shrimp, oysters, eggrolls, cheeses, tempura, assorted desserts and even a carving station. Delicious! I was really wishing I hadn’t had pizza with FG and her sitter before going out.
The event was a benefit for the Sugar Plum Tree Charity which provides Christmas gifts for the less fortunate. There was a Christmas Tree set-up with paper ornaments with gift requests. I picked one ornament for each of us including an 8 year old girl for FG. FG loves buying gifts for others even though she still thinks she should get a duplicate of whatever she picks out.
Silent auctions are always fun. I bid on a couple items but didn’t want to outbid friends. I prefer when they give you a number so no one knows who’s bidding. On one item, I got outbid by the governor’s wife and didn’t want to get into a bidding war with her. I did “win” a bid on an original pencil drawing of a Hibiscus done by a local artist named Hank Rice. We collect local artwork from where ever we visit so this will go nicely in the house.
We did win a door prize (a bottle of wine) but I was disappointed at not winning the fabulous raffle prizes: a Louis Vuitton bag and Northwest Airline tickets (business class to the States and economy class to Hawaii). They had the representatives from the respective companies read off the winning numbers and the guy from Louis Vuitton was so authentic ~ very French and very classy.
Some say this event is the kick-off for the holiday season. If all events turn out to be this fun, I say bring on the holidays 🙂
Displaced Beachbums 
Your Friday night seems like lots of fun. I prefer the silent auctions where you make your bid and drop them in the box so no one knows the highest bid or who their going against. I hate the ones with the paper where you have to keep going back. Too much work! And it’s much more of a surprise in the end if you don’t already know you’re going to win.
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