The sales team that I'm part of did 232% of quota last year and so we received an award trip (along with around 500 people total) to Maui! PW and I went on March 1st and returned on a red-eye that got us home at 7am on March 10th.
The company part of the trip ended on March 5th and we then got a rental car and moved down the beach to a different hotel. We started at the Grand Wailea Resort and Spa and then ended the trip at the Marriot Resort and Spa, both on Wailea Beach.
We did some snorkeling, sailing, I did scuba diving, spa treatments, and lots of soaking in the sun. We drove to the top of a 10,023 foot volcano and tasted wine made from pineapples during our time there.
The last evening during the company part of the trip had us attending a gala dinner which ended with a private concert featuring Melissa Ethridge. I only knew a couple of her songs but her live show is awesome! Also, as a way of helping us remembering our trip the company gave us all a gift. All the servers came out with Tiffany boxes piled high on platters...the women all got a sterling silver bracelet and men got sterling silver pens.
It was an awesome vacation but I'm still not used to the time difference back in this direction.
Oh, one other plus, I had enough frequent flyer miles to upgrade us both (round trip) to first class. It made the travel much more bearable especially when you're spending around 10-12 hours in a plane.
Posted by bbarton at March 13, 2008 09:35 AM
1st Class is incredible at any time. I can only imagine how nice is was for PW (pregnant wife!)
Posted by: Bridget on March 18, 2008 05:31 PM