Flight to Luxury

 Canneloni, Manicotti, Linguini, Lamborghini, Vermicelli, Capellini, Spaghetti, Maserati.....Italians make things lovely, don't they? Pasta, leather and sport cars. Never in one place have I been in the company of many luxurious machines as last evening, when AMC and I scored tickets to an event called A Flight to Luxury for the Boys and Girls Club of Denver. We've had the best  ticket karma these days, football games, beer festivals and last night, we got to get all gussied up and fancy. We got to sit in cars that smelled even better than the "leather" scented crayola crayon, took pictures next to vintage planes, took champagne flutes off of trays.... it was quite Gatsby of an evening, held in an airplane hangar. The big doors were left open, exposing the mountain sunset, with a Grammy award winning electric violinist playing Lady Gaga and Outkast, lamb on skewers and Belgian chocolate shortcakes sprinkled with Himalayan salt. And then for the show, ruffles, pleats and patent leather dreams... a fashion show!

this was mid "sirloin sandwich"

a last prance around the planes before the show began

champagne waiting at the end of the red carpet....sigh

enter luxury

fashion forward for the fall

mingle mingle in the sunset

And then came the auction, held by, what must be the worlds most successful auctioneer- because he got a weekend "getaway" started at a bid of....... (and that's when I learned that we weren't in Kansas anymore!)