Rod has been at Best Buy for 15 years and for probably 10 of those 15 years the stores he has worked in has come pretty close to winning the annual Holiday Achievers contest (November – January). However, only the 10 best teams in each territory (there are 6 territories in the company) actually win the contest. Each year those 60 stores get to send their Leadership team (Supervisors and Managers), plus a guest to the Best Buy Achievers event. Well this year, Rod’s store finally won and we got a chance to go to Walt Disney World! Now WDW may be the most magical place on earth, but if you don’t like to get on the rides it may not be the best thing you could win. 🙂 One guest, Lis, got to go for Free – all expenses paid but we were allowed to bring other guests. A couple of Rod’s co-workers brought their kids with them too, but Alex and Sam opted to stay at home. Sam did have school all week including Prom, while Alex had finals…. that being said, I’m not sure they would have made the trip anyway.
Even though we don’t really like the rides, we still had a pretty good time. Best Buy put us up in a hotel in Disney (right next to Epcot) and gave us quite a bit of spending money for food for the week and 2 days worth of passes to the park of your choice… including Universal Studios. We chose Animal Kingdom and Universal Studios, but opted to upgrade for the Disney Park Hopper which allowed us to visit as many parks as we wanted to on Wednesday and then for Thursday chose Universal. We ended up not going to Universal on Thursday as there were scattered showers all day, so we gave those tickets to some friends and relaxed and went to Disney Springs (shopping mall) for lunch. Overall we had a good time, and we some photos with some pretty famous people. We will have a couple of more posts with photos from the various parks, but here are some photos of the hotel and Achiever’s event.
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