Trivial Pursuits

This weekend K. and I attended our second annual fundraiser for our kids' elementary school. It was a silent auction and trivia night extravaganza. A very fancy event hosted at the neighborhood American Legion. Oh yeah, 50 year-old linoleum floors with decaying walls and American flags in every direction. Kind of, I mean exactly, like this:



But that's just how we roll here in La Grange. For the event you pair up with three other couples, create a theme, ours' was "Beer Olympics" (not my idea - I was pushing for the vampire-inspired table) and compete not only for the smartest in the trivia department but in the most eye-catching table. Sadly our team did not win in either category, but we did place #4 in the trivia competition, out of about 40 tables. Not bad, not bad. Plus K. was the only person in the freaking room to identify the artist from this piece of art (sorry it's so small):
Can YOU name the artist? Well, neither could I but my genius husband could. (It's Banksy, btw, a British graffiti artist - duh).

What surprised us the most last year was the amount of booze brought into this event. I mean, I usually see all of these prim and proper stay-at-home moms at Girl Scout meetings and PTO events and their husbands are usually wearing their business suits. But this night, to see some of them, many of them, in outrageous costumes carrying in gallon bottles of Jack Daniels made me restore my faith that people aren't as uptight around here as I thought.

Now back to reality of preparing for the grueling week ahead, but I'll be smiling whilst making the lunches tonight.