Kentucky Derby Supper Club 2010 "Southern Fare and Mint Juleps"

And they're off!!!! Hats off that is to our friends and fellow supper clubians for the outstanding showing of attire and spirit for our 1st Annual Kentucky Derby party. I can not say enough about how much fun it was. The weather started out a little shakey with some thunderstorms but by race time the weather was great! Not that it mattered quite so much anyway... we did everything inside. I will have to say that the Billups family would be proud that we acutally used the ballroom for it's original purpose.... A PARTY! Everyone came in their Derby attire. Silks casual for men and Hats for the ladies. It was fun to be able to use one of Gamba's hats that I found out at her house stuffed away in a closet. With a little help from Danny at Bella Flora, it was resurrected into some fine Derby fashion. This was a different party route for our supper club to take by having the party begin at 3:30 in the afternoon so it was a full day affair no doubt. We had to get folks there to place their bets in plenty of time, sip on their mint juleps and be ready to watch the race too! Steven Cookston did a great job handling the feat of organized wage placements and we had the giant big screen projector display the race upstairs with amazing sound system effects. The Derby contenders were all written out beautifully with their odds and stats on display labeled and all. (Thanks Lisa Lisa!) If you left the party hungry...well...let's just say it was your own fault. The food was delicious! We peeled, boiled and then marinated 900 (or aka 25 pounds of) shrimp the night before!!! Thank goodness for good friends and neighbors (Patsy, Kevin and Tony) who stayed up with us til 2am working on the shrimpies. The party hosts were Melton's, Simcox's and Brock's. The Brocks had a soccer tournament pop up after the party had been planned and set so they were unfortunately absent for the event not to mention Jody Simcox who was also summoned to the soccer tourney in Gulfport I might add. So basically it was me, Floyd and Kim left to carry on. I have to say....we pulled it off in great strides. It was really an awesome party. We even had fantastic bluegrass music piped into the sound system all over the house to add to the effect. I will let the pictures speak for themselves! And it's not a party unless it ends with karaoke right???