Wow! What a party!
How often do you see a few dozen REALTORS® in fabulous finery doing a conga line across a ballroom and up across a stage....over and over and over again....to the toe-tapping tunes of the Drifters, performing live on said stage? In my 17 years with NAR, I can't remember a moment quite like it. And this is just one of the many memorable images I took away from Thursday night's Inaugural Ball, where Pat V. Combs took the oath of office as NAR's 2007 president. Her term officially starts on Monday, November 13.
To be sure, many of the 1,500 folks at the ball had a ball, especially Pat, who looked relaxed and resplendent in a coral satin gown and spoke eloquently about her road to the NAR presidency, her love for her profession, her REALTOR® family, and her own family, recently expanded by her marriage to Guy Combs in April of this year.
This year's inaugural drew a record attendance of 1,500, which explains why there was no room for a dance floor, despite the great music just made for dancing. No wonder there was a conga line!
