So, I won employee of hte month a couple months ago, and usually, the prize is an xbox 360, ps3, or whatever around $300-400 range. However, for that month, the prize announced was a trip to Okinawa for my company's 15th anniversary (global, japan, korean, ireland, and US offices). So, 4 people from my office went (US) and I got one of the spots. Initially, I was informed the trip was 3 days (2 of which I'd be traveling anyway), so I was about to call it off
Then just as I was about to cancel my trip and take a regular prize, I was informed that it's actually TEN days!
So, I flew out on oct 2nd to Okinawa, stayed there, it was a blast...picked up a cold, so now I feel like fecal matter, but now I'm in Tokyo until Sunday 12th! Tomorrow's Tokyo game show (I work in video game industry) and 2 days after that are sight seeing and etc.
I'd offer to bring stuff back for people, but my list is already super long, and I won't have the luggage space But the experience alone is worth it!)
Plus, it's all paid for. Hotels, meals, etc.