cstocks
Platinum Member
I just thought I would pass on a little good fortune that passed my way recently.
My wife likes to enter contests on the internet. She is not picky... cash, cars, furniture, home giveaways, vacations... anything with value. One contest she entered a while back was being sponsered by an online travel agency and the grand prize was a vacation to one of twenty destinations, some in the good ol' U.S. of A and some to other locations around the world.
Well, you guessed it! She won! We culled through three quarters of the destinations because they were all within the continental U.S. (not exotic enough.) That left us with the choice of a trip to Alaska, Ireland, Brazil, Spain, Paris or Australia. We both agreed that we wanted to go somewhere that English was spoken (didn't want to get too exotic) so that narrowed down the choices a bit. We discussed it at length and finally got iit down to Alaska or Ireland. We only had seven days to fill out our eligibility and endorsement forms and could not decide which way to go. At the last minute we compromised and decided to go to..... Australia!
Talk about the vacation of a lifetime! We both agreed that since the trip was being paid for by someone else that we may as well get the most for our money. We figured Australia would be the last place we would go if we used our own money because of the cost. Only the airfare is paid but I am not going to complain.Sooo, sometime in 2003 we are going to fly off and spend up to 21 days in Oz.
Needless to say, we are both excited and can't wait to go. We will probably buy a good digital camera and take the camcorder as well. Gonna make some memories and take plenty of pix to remember the trip by. I'll try to remember to take some pictures that will interest you folks here on TBN and post 'em when we get back.
Anybody else ever win anything? Only other thing of any consequence that I ever won in my life was an Apple IMAC computer a couple of years ago. I used it a couple of months, did not like it and sold it.
My wife likes to enter contests on the internet. She is not picky... cash, cars, furniture, home giveaways, vacations... anything with value. One contest she entered a while back was being sponsered by an online travel agency and the grand prize was a vacation to one of twenty destinations, some in the good ol' U.S. of A and some to other locations around the world.
Well, you guessed it! She won! We culled through three quarters of the destinations because they were all within the continental U.S. (not exotic enough.) That left us with the choice of a trip to Alaska, Ireland, Brazil, Spain, Paris or Australia. We both agreed that we wanted to go somewhere that English was spoken (didn't want to get too exotic) so that narrowed down the choices a bit. We discussed it at length and finally got iit down to Alaska or Ireland. We only had seven days to fill out our eligibility and endorsement forms and could not decide which way to go. At the last minute we compromised and decided to go to..... Australia!
Talk about the vacation of a lifetime! We both agreed that since the trip was being paid for by someone else that we may as well get the most for our money. We figured Australia would be the last place we would go if we used our own money because of the cost. Only the airfare is paid but I am not going to complain.Sooo, sometime in 2003 we are going to fly off and spend up to 21 days in Oz.
Needless to say, we are both excited and can't wait to go. We will probably buy a good digital camera and take the camcorder as well. Gonna make some memories and take plenty of pix to remember the trip by. I'll try to remember to take some pictures that will interest you folks here on TBN and post 'em when we get back.
Anybody else ever win anything? Only other thing of any consequence that I ever won in my life was an Apple IMAC computer a couple of years ago. I used it a couple of months, did not like it and sold it.
