Submarine Birthday Ball April 21, 2012

Last Saturday evening was the Submarine Birthday Ball! It happens every April to celebrate the birthday of the submarine force. The ball was at the Hyatt Regency which is right on the St. John's river in Jacksonville. We enjoyed a nice dinner, ceremony, and dancing. The ceremony was very touching. During the "tolling of the bells", a bell is rung in remembrance of each submarine that the United States has lost since the beginning of the sub force. There have been 52 total submarines lost. They played a slide show during the tolling of the bells that showed a picture of each of the subs, how they were lost, where they sunk, the date they sunk, and how many men were lost. It was a very chilling moment that put a lot in perspective. Overall, the ball was wonderful! We got to see a lot of our friends and I enjoyed getting all dolled up! :) Enjoy the pictures, there are a lot of them!

Ryan making a silly face in a picture? Never....

Accidental model pose haha! I was opening the door and Ryan was snapping pictures like usual!

The awesome color effect on my camera!!

Color effect again! I pulled the blue out in this picture.

Two of the best friends a girl could ask for! Miss Nora and Miss Rachel!! If only Cassie and Christen would have come, then the night would have been complete!!

Rachel, Andrea, and I!

Color effect on Rachel's hot dress!!

Attempted color effect on Andrea's gold dress! It was a rented designer dress from renttherunway.com!! Her necklace was also designer and it was gorgeous too!!

The lovely ladies!! Rachel, Andrea, Me, Beth (she's one of the new female officer's on our boat), and Nora! Nora was an honorary Wyoming Blue member on this night ;) Her husband is on the Tennessee.

One of the loves of my life!! I don't know what I'd do without her!!

Max (Rachel's husband) is at the bottom, Andrea and her husband Carl are in the middle, and that's Rachel at the top.

Haha!! Baden, Nora's husband, being hilarious on our walk down to The Landing after the ball!

Nora and I on a beautiful night!!