HamBINGO

Melissa is on the board of the Kansas City Infertility Awareness Foundation and last night they held a fundraiser at Hamburger Mary's. Hamburger Mary's is a gay-themed and LGBT friendly burger restaurant chain. Their motto is "an open-air bar and grill for open-minded people." In short, it's a drag club.

Several days a week they hold HamBINGO which is a charity event supporting local Kansas City charities. But this is not your typical "church basement" bingo. It can get a little risqué. The entire wait staff and entertainers are dressed in drag and keep the audience entertained throughout the evening.

We got there about an hour before bingo started so we could eat and get a good table. They also have some of the best burgers in town.

Besides bingo they were having a raffle. For $10 you got as many tickets as could be wrapped around you. The money collected from the ticket sales is divided equally between the winner and the charity. It just so happened that the President's husband won the raffle so he donated his half back to the charity.

Between games we were entertained by performers dancing through the crowd. If you gave them money they would stop and let you take their picture.

Ten games were played and Ashley finally won game 9. After you select your prize from the prize table, you have to run through the restaurant while everyone throws their losing bingo cards at you and the drag host/hostess???? taunts you.

The staff looked a bit confused to me. I don't think they knew what to do with so many pregnant women in their audience. I believe they said the charity raised over $2,000. Not bad considering they only had $1,500 in their bank account.