Fun Day

Thursday after work, I drove to Hudson, WI to spend the evening with our daughter and her family. I needed to be in St. Paul on Friday for work. It was our “Annual All-Staff Celebration” of our Minnesota Region to celebrate the end of another fiscal year. It’s the time that the Regional Vice President takes to give recognition for a year of hard work by all of her regional staff. She and the planning committee want it to be a fun time for us. This year it was a sports theme, and we were all to dress in our favorite sports team’s clothing. We each drew a sports related eraser from a hat when we got there, and whatever your eraser was (soccer ball, football, basketball, baseball) that was the table we sat at. I drew the basketball table. We had a relay game to see which team could get through dressing up in hockey and football equipment the fastest. The most fun game was a game fashioned after “Jeopardy”. It was a game that revealed things about our Management Leaders that we didn’t know, with questions from categories such as “Fear Factor”, who’s afraid of snakes, “Dish it up”, favorite things they like to make & it revealed who doesn’t like to cook, “My hometown” revealed who grew up in the same neighborhood as Peanuts creator Schultz, and many other fun categories.

This meeting was held at St. Paul’s Como Park and Conservatory. It went from 11 to 2, so that everyone could tour the conservatory and park after, but it was over 80 degrees with humidity to match. It was so hot in the room we were in, that I don’t think anyone stayed. The room overlooked the pink flamingos, it was a beautiful view. If it had been like it is here in Duluth today, I would liked to have stayed and look around, as I have never been there. Always heard it was a nice place, and now it has wetted my appetite to go back to visit, but it will be during a cooler.

For what one of our staff members described as "Mandatory Fun", this was the most fun we had in quite a few years! The VP and Committee did a great job of planning it.