*Disclaimer, I am giving away free things at the end of this inordinately long post, so keep reading mmkay?*
Last week I got an email from my friend Sue inviting the Nub and I along on a Thanksgiving Point blog-o-land adventure/takeover. Basically, the marketing whizzes at TG Point invited a grip load of blogger ladies and their kiddos to enjoy some of the more popular TG Point attractions, and of course drum up some positive press on the side.
Because don't you know? Mommy bloggers are the new advertising frontier.
Basically to be invited to this shindig you had to have a technorati score of at least 5 billion plus one and like 20,000 hits a day (can someone explain technorati scores to me sometime?). Seeing as how I fit into neither of these categories and my blog still has .blogspot.com at the end of it, you would correctly assume that the only reason I got to come was because Sue sort of made them let me. Sue explains it more fully on her post, and don't worry, she took pictures of me and the Nub sweating to death on a wagon ride as proof we were there. Also, because I secretly hate having to put forth the effort to get to know new people, I only met one new person and that's because she said hi first (Jane at Seagull Fountain), she liked my diaper bag and so I instantly liked her. Who says I can't network? Geez.
The fountain in the children's garden was out of water, it was muy schweaty, and like Hebrews in the Egyptian desert, we spent most of our time complaining about it. Other than that, my kid rode his first horse and it was 99% adorable after his initial angry protest. I got licked by a baby cow (called a calf for all you people who DIDN'T grow up on a farm), that was cute too. Heaven bless popsicles and dino museum AC. Sue didn't die of heat stroke, bless her pregnant heart. Her kids are so so so cute and so well behaved. I think that maybe they were robots because most kids that age are annoying. I am proud to report hers are most definitely not, annoying I mean. Lunch was primo and maybe I ate 3 cookies, maybe I didn't, but mostly maybe I did. They gave me a gift basket which included fudge and did not make me feel like less of a woman because my blog has a negative technorati score. There I go again with technorati. What do they say? We are most afraid of things we don't understand? Whatever.
Basically, TG point is que bueno.
Even more bueno when it's less than 98 degrees outside.
Even MORE bueno when it's free.
That's right, they gave me 4 free passes to their 4 major attractions (Dino Museum, Children's Discovery Garden, Farm Country, and Thankgsiving Point Gardens) to give away to YOU. If you can't add, like me, that adds up to 16 FREE TICKETS HOMIES!
All you have to do is leave a comment to enter and then I will pick my favorite to win.
I'm kidding, I will do it randomly, I promise.
***Also, and I'm adding this later, tweet or blog about it, OR BOTH, come back and comment again=EXTRA ENTRIES!
Aaaaaaand GO!
Last week I got an email from my friend Sue inviting the Nub and I along on a Thanksgiving Point blog-o-land adventure/takeover. Basically, the marketing whizzes at TG Point invited a grip load of blogger ladies and their kiddos to enjoy some of the more popular TG Point attractions, and of course drum up some positive press on the side.
Because don't you know? Mommy bloggers are the new advertising frontier.
Basically to be invited to this shindig you had to have a technorati score of at least 5 billion plus one and like 20,000 hits a day (can someone explain technorati scores to me sometime?). Seeing as how I fit into neither of these categories and my blog still has .blogspot.com at the end of it, you would correctly assume that the only reason I got to come was because Sue sort of made them let me. Sue explains it more fully on her post, and don't worry, she took pictures of me and the Nub sweating to death on a wagon ride as proof we were there. Also, because I secretly hate having to put forth the effort to get to know new people, I only met one new person and that's because she said hi first (Jane at Seagull Fountain), she liked my diaper bag and so I instantly liked her. Who says I can't network? Geez.
The fountain in the children's garden was out of water, it was muy schweaty, and like Hebrews in the Egyptian desert, we spent most of our time complaining about it. Other than that, my kid rode his first horse and it was 99% adorable after his initial angry protest. I got licked by a baby cow (called a calf for all you people who DIDN'T grow up on a farm), that was cute too. Heaven bless popsicles and dino museum AC. Sue didn't die of heat stroke, bless her pregnant heart. Her kids are so so so cute and so well behaved. I think that maybe they were robots because most kids that age are annoying. I am proud to report hers are most definitely not, annoying I mean. Lunch was primo and maybe I ate 3 cookies, maybe I didn't, but mostly maybe I did. They gave me a gift basket which included fudge and did not make me feel like less of a woman because my blog has a negative technorati score. There I go again with technorati. What do they say? We are most afraid of things we don't understand? Whatever.
Basically, TG point is que bueno.
Even more bueno when it's less than 98 degrees outside.
Even MORE bueno when it's free.
That's right, they gave me 4 free passes to their 4 major attractions (Dino Museum, Children's Discovery Garden, Farm Country, and Thankgsiving Point Gardens) to give away to YOU. If you can't add, like me, that adds up to 16 FREE TICKETS HOMIES!
All you have to do is leave a comment to enter and then I will pick my favorite to win.
I'm kidding, I will do it randomly, I promise.
***Also, and I'm adding this later, tweet or blog about it, OR BOTH, come back and comment again=EXTRA ENTRIES!
Aaaaaaand GO!
21 notes:
Coolie. I'm in !
Shoot, they ARE robots. What gave it away?
You forgot to mention the part where your little guy sat patiently through the whole shebang, heat or no heat. It was kind of amazing.
My freaky sister in law is coming to visit us. She will be in town tomorrow morning, because she refuses to drive from CA-UT in the blistering heat. And so she drives at night.
Yes, its that bad. And I had to tell someone.
comment, post, win.
this is me.
i'm commenting.
pick me baby like an ear of fresh sweet corn.
thx.
Pick me pick me!
I should win because I keep lying to Son One. As we drive by the Dino Museum, "Mom, can we go there tomorrow?" "Yes." And we have never gone.
Please make me an honest woman.
ooo ooo pick me pick me! I've been dying to check out the childrens gardens with my rambunctious almost 3 year old and my 2 month old!
Kalin
Dear Giveaway Gods,
I thank thee for this blog. Thank thee for free things. Please bless me that I may win so that I can take my 3 year old daughter to a cool museum and get her out of the house.
Amen
umm i am in!
Dude! I wanna win. Then maybe I'll take my kid out of the house for once. :)
I never would have guessed that you didn't like getting to know new people... you're a social butterfly! Oh, and we would love to go play in the fountain!
You know I need things to do in September when I visit. And in October when I visit. So there.
I don't live in Utah (and won't be going there very soon)(p.s., fully pregnant), but can I re-gift them and pretend like I purchased them wholly by myself?
Ooh..fun! Coop and I would love love to go to the dino museum if you'd like. I have been meaning to take him and haven't yet. He asks to go see the dinosaurs whenever we pass by...
Awesome giveaway! It's been a while since we spent a day melting at the gardens.
i am THE chicken dinner!!!
Member that time I left Sally at the Dino museum? I should win because I need a better memory of that place. Plus they stopped giving away free ones at XanGo many moons ago.
sign me up!
I want them. Give them to me!! Thanks. Bye.
Count me in, too! My kids would love to go there.
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