A Festival of Trees

Silent auction

Og en hel masse jazzy julemusik... 

Her til aften har jeg været til "Festival of Trees" sammen med Jim og hans ældste datter, Robin. Et elegant arrangement med lækre hors d'oeuvres og jazz trio. 

Formålet med arrangementet var at bortauktionere forskellige ting, særligt pyntede juletræer, og samle penge ind til et godt formål.  

Man kunne også byde på forskellige lækre kager, skønhedsbehandlinger, smykker m.m. 

Jim er meget involveret i LAMP, Lowndes Associated Ministries to People, som er en non-profit organisation som forsøger at hjælpe hjemløse i samfundet, og de havde et par ting med på auktionen. 

Det dyreste træ som blev bortauktioneret gik for 2,500$ - altså mere end 14.000 kr.! Fuldstændig vanvittigt, men mest af alt imponerende. 

Det var virkelig et flot arrangement, og alle de forskellige dekorerede træer var meget kreative - der var et træ med baseballs på, et træ med vinoplukkere, et med specialøl, et med bamser osv. - Havde min telefon været lidt mere samarbejdsvillig havde der været flere (og flottere) billeder, men der må i lige nøjes med sløret og ufokuseret lidt endnu :-)

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And a whole lot of jazzy Christmas music... 

Tonight I attended "The Festival of Trees" with Jim and his oldest daughter, Robin. An elegant event with delicious hors d'oeuvres and a jazz trio.  

The purpose of the event was to auction off several different items, especially decorated Christmas trees, to raise money for goodwill organizations. 

Jim is involved with LAMP, Lowndes Associated Ministry to People, who try to help homeless people in the community, and their organization was auctioning off a couple of items.  

You could also place bids on cakes, beauty treatments, jewelry and much more. 

The most expensive tree that was auctioned off went for 2,500$! Completely crazy, but most of all very impressive!

It was a very nice event, and all the differently decorated trees were really creative - there was a tree with baseballs, one with cork screws, one with special edition Budweiser, one with teddies etc. - Had my phone been a bit more cooperative there would have been even more (and much nicer) pictures, but you'll have to settle with these blurry, out-of-focus ones a little longer :-)