Spouses Night Out & Fun in Bury St Edmunds

Spouses Night Out & Fun in Bury St Edmunds

Military Spouses Appreciation Day was May 10th this year. In honor of this day Maureen Robinson, the 48th Fighter Wing base commander's wife, set up the Spouses Night Out on Saturday, May 18th. 

The tickets were sold on a tier structure based on your spouses rank. With Tyler being in the lowest tier of the officer ranks (CGO: Company Grade Officer- this is 2Lt, 1Lt & Captains) my cost was $10. The event was held in Hanger 7 on RAF Lakenheath at 6pm. The theme of the night was "fiesta" and they were serving Mexican appetizers (chips & salsa, guacamole, 7 layer dip) and a fully loaded taco bar. For drinks to purchase they had margaritas (regular & strawberry) for $3, Coronas for $2, Red Bulls for $2, and sodas and water for $1. 

They had a paparazzi area where we walked the red carpet while the group commanders clapped and screamed for us like we were celebrities, a photo booth with fun props, a speedfriending (like speed dating but for making friends) tent, and a DJ/karaoke area. The speaker for the evening was a kind hearted lady from a show here in England called "songs of praise". She was really sweet, silly, and witty and I enjoyed listening to her speak.

Here's some funny photos we took:

This one is all the 493rd Reaperettes that attended the Spouses Night Out:

This one has a couple other girls in it that aren't in our squadron.

Ahhh I love these girls :)

This is Kenya...she's one of my co-workers at the Youth Center. 

 Chelsea and Katie :) Katie is due ANY day now!

Jen and I had fun with the props. She was my other half at the party. Upon arrival, we were handed a small piece of paper with a word on it and we had to find the other half that matched. I was superman and she was lois lane :)

Katie doesn't know the sex of her baby so we thought this would be a cute idea for a baby announcement!

We ended up singing Margaritaville for karaoke that night!

Meanwhile, since the girls were at this event, some of the boys went out in the village of Bury St Edmunds nearby. When I was done at the event, I hitched a ride with some of the other wives to Bury to meet up with Tyler and to drive him and his car home. I found him at McDonalds (surprise, surprise). We ended up going to one of the local restaurants/bars with some of the other people in the squadron and then ended the night at a bar & dance club called "Flex". We had a lot of fun dancing the night away together with good friends :)

Out on the dance floor with Matt, Chris, and Jen

Chris tried to photobomb all our pics!

Yup, that's Chris' hand photobombing our pic :)

All in all, a great weekend!