One of the last big events each year at Texas A&M is the Senior's annual "Ring Dance". It's a formal occasion to celebrate all of the accomplishments of college, and especially of getting your class ring. Of course my class's was several years ago, but this past Saturday was the Ring Dance for the Class of 2006, Kristi's class. So it had been something that we had been looking forward to for a long time, getting dressed up, eating at a nice restaurant, dancing, the works!

Kristi got a really beautiful cream white gown to wear, and while I had a suit and everything to wear, she suggested that I go with a solid white tie to match her dress. I didn't really know what to think about it at first, but all in all I think it turned out really well and I ended up liking it afterall. We had made plans to go along with Chad and Allison, two really good friends of ours who are also getting married this summer. So in the early afternoon, we met up and took lots of pictures on campus. The weather worked out in our favor, it was sunny but not as hot as it could have been. There were lots of other people around all dressed up doing the same thing. We took more pictures than I could possible put on here, but i put them up on snapfish if anyone else wants to see them all. Here's a few of the ones we took....












(this is apparently my "tux rental ad" pic)







(I like these past three, they kind of tell a story)


We then met up with Ryan Reddy and Christina Wallace for dinner at Christopher's World Grill inBryan, which is an amazing place to go if you ever get the chance, and of course the dinner and lagniappe was unbelievable. We all left absolutely stuffed and miserable, but it was well worth it.



After that, we went on to the dance at the Memorial Student Center which lasted until midnight. They usually have several different theme rooms with various styles of music. This year they had a "kind of" classic rock room, but that's not all that they played, a Country and Western room, a Latin salsa dancing room, and a Hip-Hop room. They also had a casino to win raffle tickets and a room where Freudian Slip (a local comedy improv group) was performing. All in all, we had a really good time, but it was definitely time for a good night's sleep afterwards...