Today was the Second Annual Champlain College Staff Appreciation Cruise - and we were cruising the lake on Northern Lights! Clearly, Geeda and Ken came to par-tay! The EMC was well represented - Sarah, Ken, Ray and Heather all attended, and Jay, Geeda and I rounded out the crew. We boarded the boat around 6:00 pm and were greated with a slight Mexican theme, two drink tickets (margaritas - yum!) and buffet of burritos, quesadillas and other delights.
Once our cruise was underway, and everyone was fed, the committee who had coordinated the event (Sarah included) started the game play! Each staff member had submitted an interesting "fact" about him/herself prior to the event. The committee had taken these facts and printed them all up on large sheets of paper. First, the committee selected one random participant to play - the first round it turned out to be Ray! Then five other staff members were randomly selected. Ray was given 5 of the "facts" - each one matched one of the folks in line in front of him - and it was his job to match them up, but he only had 2 minutes!
Ray's buddy Matt (who he went to high school with, and also has Ray's old job in IT) was part of Ray's line up! Unfortunately... Ray wasn't very good at the game - he didn't get any correct matches! He was an excellent sport, and received a wonderful parting gift - a gift certificate to Mexcali! There were 5 rounds of the game total, split up over the course of the evening. Ray was part of the line up in the second round - he was successfully matched with his "fact" - that his Mom had once called Presedent Regan and asked him to find her husband a job!
We ended up with a lovely sunset, which we viewed from the very cool and breeze-y upper deck!
All in all it was an awesome evening! It felt great for everyone to take a break, get out and have some fun! It was also really cool to hang out with Ray's co-workers and their spouses in such a fun environment. We are looking forward to the Third Annual Champlain College Staff Appreciation Cruise!