Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Company Christmas Party!

Well, a few weekends ago it was time for our first visit to Jon's new employer's annual holiday party. And what a party it was! It was held in the DeVos Center in downtown Grand Rapids, and was a sit-down dinner for 4,500 (yes, 4,500!) catered by the Amway Grand - which meant the food was delicious! All of this was followed by an evening of entertainment and desserts and treats. To sum the evening up in one word: awesome.

Jon and I had such a good time, and the whole evening was just incredible. We had six different rooms of entertainment choices that we could wander in and out of during the evening, with multiple acts in certain rooms too. By the end of the night we had seen a juggling act (that had been on the tv show America's Got Talent), a hilarious comedian, Tim Hawkins, and ended the night with a concert by the band 33 Miles, which Jon and I just happen to love! We had a huge dessert bar to choose from throughout the night, and carts with snacks, smoothies and iced mocha drinks were scattered throughout the center too. Then at 9 o'clock the pizza arrived! You could win iPods competing in the Wii games too, which we didn't even get a chance to do since we were so busy the whole evening! Add the gift card for free company merchandise that we were given as well, and it all added up to one pretty generous night for the employees.

One of the other perks was that they had about 8 or 10 photograph stations where people took your picture in front of a unique back-drop and then printed you out a copy. I couldn't convince Jon to hit every station, but we did a pretty good job of hitting a lot of them. It was free, and we looked pretty good all dressed up, so I figured why not! I took pictures of a few of the pictures so you could see us, but the originals are much nicer. We had an unbelievable evening and I'm already looking forward to next year!


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