[It's 6 p.m. on the dot, and the East Wing ballroom is totally decked out.
Tables with (safe) food and refreshments along the walls with chairs and tables to their sides, garlands and ribbons along the walls, mistletoe in the doorways, and a large, bright, glittering Christmas tree right in the middle of it all.
The Dressing Room's 4th annual Yule Ball has begun!]