01-05-2008: 50th Birthday at Travis Pointe

Travis pointe country club is a beautiful venue, if you live around Ann Arbor/Saline area and want to have a party. We DJd a 50th birthday party at this club. The banquet hall had an open floor plan, which means guests can have a long open aisle from the lounge, perfect for family walk ins. If you have a small wedding of 100-150 people, it would be perfect.

The evening started with instrumentals while open fire sauteed some trendy chicken and shrimp kabobs and veggie relishes, courtesy Shalimar restaurant. After a few short and sweet speeches, some shayari (Poems) was poured open. The candid shayari was aimed at the man hitting 50 years and was quite funny. Guests and the host's family enjoyed it with good spirit.

When all dispersed for the dinner, we opened up a juke box and sang a few karaoke songs. The first one was a low key, as it took a little time to adjust speakers' position. From the second song on, dinner time rocked. We started with the saucy "Jaane jaa dhoondta" and ended it with the foot thumping "Jai jai shiv shankar" with a few latest songs from Koi mil gaya and Chalte Chalte in between.

After dinner, the mom and daughter performed a dance together on salam-e-ishq. The dad and the son countered that with a punchy bhangra "Sardar". I have not seen a family that is so young and vibrant and so talented, 50 years was nothing on him, he beat his teenager son with his bhangra moves.

Open dance floor rocked with the latest bolly and bhangra beats. While all the guest left to their homes which were about 5-10 minutes away, we drove 65 miles back, phew !!... but, it was fun !