Recapping the Cuervo games

One word. Fantastic!

The Cuervo Games for 2011 started in Scottsdale Arizona, and it was a blast!

I really needed a weekend like this. A chance to get away and play for a change. Huge kudos to a few folks The awesome team from Taylor Strategy, Maxim, and of course, Jose Cuervo for putting this all together and for sending us media types to cover the games.

I got in to Scottsdale at about 5:00 Friday afternoon and met Kellie and Jenna, and all the rest of my team mates at a dinner that evening at El Hefa.

The food was great, the drinks were great, but most importantly, the people were great. The whole town was celebrating Cinco De Mayo en mass. It was one of those things where everything just fit together.

The temperature Saturday was a pleasant 102 degrees but it was a dry heat. (How many times have we heard that?)

We media types were able to play around with the event stuff and I have to say it was all pretty challenging. The eight teams that won here in Scottsdale will move on to the next competition in Dallas in two weeks.

It was a great place to network, have fun, and have some great food and drinks. I was amazed at how many participants and media types were at this event. I’m going to estimate a thousand or so folks.

There were ladies from Maxim magazine shaking a tumbler to make margaritas and got prizes for the best shaken, shook, put-together margarita.

Off the chain fun.

Join us in two weeks when they come to Dallas and see how the teams do there.

UPDATE::::: From Amanda Lawson’s Blog

‘Tis the season for company parties

I’m not sure how you feel about the Christmas season, but for me it’s a season for cheer and well wishes for man-kind and all that goes with that. Seeing that all of my kids are grown now, there is no need for me to put on any kind of Santa suit and tell them I’m watching them to see if they have been naughty or nice.

With that said, I always look forward to the annual Christmas party. And what could be even more fun than a company Christmas party? I really work with some of the best people around, and I think you will soon see that we all like to let our hair down enjoy ourselves at this time of year.

As you could see, we hadn’t even left the parking lot and we were ready to have some fun.

And it’s always amazing to me what people will do when they see I have a camera. This was crazy and fun all at once, and I have to give my co-workers credit for wanting to have a good time on a nice day in December.

Of course part of the holiday cheer was spent in our Christmas talent contest, and of course even though we took 4th place, our ballet team was awesome and should have won the thing, especially since I was the star of that act (cough cough).

All-in-all it was a great time, and I want to thank everyone that pitched in to make it a great time.

I want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours the happiest of holidays.