Weekends are Fun

[c9]

• Thursday afternoon I flew to Halifax, then took a chartered bus to Cape Breton, for our annual Sales Conference. I'm not in Sales, but the Operations team was somewhat involved this year, so I got to go. Woo!
• Thursday night: drinking and dancing and ice-breaker signing of "yearbooks" so we could meet each other. The person who got the most signatures would win an iPod Shuffle.
• Friday: bus out to CEO's cottage in New Harris, bus almost gets stuck on the dirt road. In a big tent with no Powerpoint at all, vendors present, customers tell us what they want, we eat and enjoy the sunshine, and the CEO's dog barks a lot. That night, a lobster or steak supper, depending on one's preference. Yummy!
• Saturday: Operations splits off into our own group to talk about making ops better, then I run "The Amazing Race" for ten people. Great fun. Too much sun. Operations people are smart and finish my puzzles too fast. The winners have never seen the show. That night, a barbeque and awards ceremony for the top sales teams, etc. The very last thing awarded is the iPod. I win. Wooo!
• But the iPod is apparently on order, so all I get is a promise.
• The buses are loaded up, and I walk around for stragglers so that nobody gets forgotten and stuck 9.1 km from the hotel. I find no one, but am told that my iPod is just a short run across thje property. I run and get it, then run back. Lo and behold, I straggled. The buses were gone! So I sat and chatted with the CEO's daughter, and she promised to drive me to the hotel shortly on her way home (Sydney, 45 minutes away). I joined the party in progress when I got to the hotel, and nobody it seemed had missed me. :-)
• Sunday: up early, bus to Halifax International Airport, fly to Toronto, bus to Park'N'Fly lot, drive to Kitchener, pass out.

I'm tired now.

Comments

[skaughty.livejournal.com]

Woohoo for free iPods! :)

[rebelprince26.livejournal.com]

That night, a lobster or steak supper, depending on one's preference.

No vegetarian option? Hmmm...

You straggled! That's funny. How was the ride with the CEO's daughter? My CEO's daughter was my old boss...(the lesbian!)

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Congrats. Did you have any kind of iPod before? What kind of things did you do for your Amazing Race?

[leapfish.livejournal.com]

He only had very limited use of my iPod :-)

[skaughty.livejournal.com]

Is that what you kids are calling it these days?

[leapfish.livejournal.com]

Bitch, please.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Vinny has a shuffle that I gave him, but I've only used it once. Now I can see if I like it too!

The race had various puzzles (anagrams, numbers) based on messages ("go to the doorway furthest from the highway") or specific Polar Bear things. Plus some silly ones, like eat five crackers in a minute, that sort of thing.