Yes this is a post about me. I can be wild.. sort of.
So maybe my idea of "wild" is a little different than yours.. so.
Every once in a while I'll go through the pictures on my MySpace deleting old ones and adding new. I was looking through photos of a company Christmas trip I went on back in December and realized that I never wrote about it. I posted a photo slideshow with promises to follow up but never did. My apologies. Allow me to rectify that error now.
So I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it or not but I work for a super fantastic company. Every year they pay for all of their employees (we have ten offices throughout Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma) to go to a company Christmas Party and on a 3-4 day vacation. The vacation this year was 4 days in Cancun. All expense paid luxury resort. Allow me to repeat myself. All Expense Paid Luxury Resort. They cover travel, hotel, meals, alcohol, the works. Alcohol isn’t much of a big deal to me, I don’t drink, but for the rest of the guys and gals in the company that’s a big WOOHOOOO!!
I’ve only been with this company since last September and you have to have been with them for a year to go on the vacations so I missed out this year, but next year.. oh yea I’m there!
Usually the company Christmas trip is in Texas but this past year they decided to have it in New Orleans. We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Harrah’s Hotel & Casino (again with the all expense paid – meals too!). I’m not sure you’d really call it a vacation since it was work related, but it was vacation enough for me. The first one I’ve ever been on too! I know, how sad is that.
I went to Boston year before last for another work related thing (diff company) but I was only there for 2 days and 8 hours of those were spent in a conference. I did get to walk around in the evening though and it’s beautiful! There are so many things to do in Boston. I highly recommend taking the T, just for fun. Oh and walking around Boston Common.
But back to New Orleans.
Maybe girls gone wild is stretching it a bit but we did have a lot of fun. Oh! You're allowed to bring a spouse or if you don't have one (like me) a guest on the trips. So since my mom's birthday was in December I brought her. That's the we.
So maybe my idea of "wild" is a little different than yours.. so.
Every once in a while I'll go through the pictures on my MySpace deleting old ones and adding new. I was looking through photos of a company Christmas trip I went on back in December and realized that I never wrote about it. I posted a photo slideshow with promises to follow up but never did. My apologies. Allow me to rectify that error now.
So I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it or not but I work for a super fantastic company. Every year they pay for all of their employees (we have ten offices throughout Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma) to go to a company Christmas Party and on a 3-4 day vacation. The vacation this year was 4 days in Cancun. All expense paid luxury resort. Allow me to repeat myself. All Expense Paid Luxury Resort. They cover travel, hotel, meals, alcohol, the works. Alcohol isn’t much of a big deal to me, I don’t drink, but for the rest of the guys and gals in the company that’s a big WOOHOOOO!!
I’ve only been with this company since last September and you have to have been with them for a year to go on the vacations so I missed out this year, but next year.. oh yea I’m there!
Usually the company Christmas trip is in Texas but this past year they decided to have it in New Orleans. We spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Harrah’s Hotel & Casino (again with the all expense paid – meals too!). I’m not sure you’d really call it a vacation since it was work related, but it was vacation enough for me. The first one I’ve ever been on too! I know, how sad is that.
I went to Boston year before last for another work related thing (diff company) but I was only there for 2 days and 8 hours of those were spent in a conference. I did get to walk around in the evening though and it’s beautiful! There are so many things to do in Boston. I highly recommend taking the T, just for fun. Oh and walking around Boston Common.
But back to New Orleans.
Maybe girls gone wild is stretching it a bit but we did have a lot of fun. Oh! You're allowed to bring a spouse or if you don't have one (like me) a guest on the trips. So since my mom's birthday was in December I brought her. That's the we.
I hadn't been to New Orleans since I was a kid visiting my grandmother. Other than what you see on TV I wasn't sure what to expect. Especially since it was post Katrina.
They had sightseeing tours but my mom and I wanted to walk around and walk we did. We got there on Friday night around 9:30 I think and we got back to the hotel around 1am. We walked and walked and walked, all through the French Quarter and down Bourbon Street. My Oh My at the things you'll see on Bourbon. It would make a nun blush!
I think the coolest thing, no I know, the coolest thing we saw was Brad Pitt's Make It Right Project in the Lower 9th. It was incredible, not only to see an entire neighborhood completely leveled but to see all of the pink tents that represented the new homes that were going to be built. We stopped and talked to a sweet lady who's house had lifted off it's foundation and floated across the street. She invited us in and showed off all her new things. She was so proud. Thankfully, she had just bought flood insurance a few months earlier, in spite of some genius insurance agent telling her she wasn't in a flood zone. I could see the levees from her yard. Not in a flood zone my rear.
I really wanted to go to the Audubon Zoo, but my mom wanted to visit the Aquarium of the Americas and we didn't have time for both so we did that instead. Trusted Tours and Attractions offers special deals and discounts on tours in New Orleans (they also can show you cool Things to do in Atlanta) and I'd really like to take one when I go again, and I definitely plan on going again! I want to go on one of the voodoo tours at night. Whoooo Spooky! And right now, Trustedtours.com is having a special promotion where if you sign up for their newsletter you can win a $150 itunes gift card!
They had sightseeing tours but my mom and I wanted to walk around and walk we did. We got there on Friday night around 9:30 I think and we got back to the hotel around 1am. We walked and walked and walked, all through the French Quarter and down Bourbon Street. My Oh My at the things you'll see on Bourbon. It would make a nun blush!
I think the coolest thing, no I know, the coolest thing we saw was Brad Pitt's Make It Right Project in the Lower 9th. It was incredible, not only to see an entire neighborhood completely leveled but to see all of the pink tents that represented the new homes that were going to be built. We stopped and talked to a sweet lady who's house had lifted off it's foundation and floated across the street. She invited us in and showed off all her new things. She was so proud. Thankfully, she had just bought flood insurance a few months earlier, in spite of some genius insurance agent telling her she wasn't in a flood zone. I could see the levees from her yard. Not in a flood zone my rear.
I really wanted to go to the Audubon Zoo, but my mom wanted to visit the Aquarium of the Americas and we didn't have time for both so we did that instead. Trusted Tours and Attractions offers special deals and discounts on tours in New Orleans (they also can show you cool Things to do in Atlanta) and I'd really like to take one when I go again, and I definitely plan on going again! I want to go on one of the voodoo tours at night. Whoooo Spooky! And right now, Trustedtours.com is having a special promotion where if you sign up for their newsletter you can win a $150 itunes gift card!
One more interesting tidbit then I'm signing off. Did you know the Mardi Gras actually originated in Mobile, AL, and not New Orleans? I live in Mobile and had no idea until recently. Learn something new every day!
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Any of those places sound good to me!
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