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Sicily Trip of A Lifetime, Part 1

 I have so many pictures to share that I'm trying to break them up to be reasonable but I don't know how successful I'll be.  I'll start with our first day.  

Well, I guess I should explain the trip, huh? Jason earned what is called The Master's Club trip, which is given each year to the top 6% of sales earners. But not only sales, you have to meet other criteria as well.  We never thought we would get this trip, as Sales Engineers rarely are awarded this perk.  It's funny though, because other arms of the Corporation send whatever sales engineer that has a winning sales guy, since they are part of how the sales guy got the sale.  But oh well, if we never go again, this trip was definitely worth it to us both.

It was a LONG travel day -- we left Atlanta sometime after 4p (our flight was delayed due to the cleaning crew.  Turns out that the people on the arriving flight TRASHED the plane.  They said normally the cleaning crew could turn around a flight in about 25-30 minutes but it took them over an HOUR - yikes!).  We landed in Rome the next morning around 8a and then had a couple hours to make our way through passport control and take a look around the airport. It killed us to be Rome and unable to see any of the ancient sites.  Oh well, a trip for the next time with the boys perhaps.

We met up with two of Jason's sales guys and their wives that also earned the trip and then hopped a short flight from Rome to Palermo, Sicily.  From there is was an hour and a half drive to the resort in Sciacca.  It was beautiful views but the almost 24 hours of being awake caught up with us and we promptly fell asleep.  We still had a whole evening of events to attend!!
 The resort was beautiful with a golf course, clubhouse, spa and resort area and bicycles everywhere that you could just hop on and ride around.  Plus, we were right on the Mediterranean Sea.  We found out the next day that the Verdura Golf and Spa Resort was the finest hotel on the entire island of Sicily - and it definitely showed!

We got to our room, and before we laid down for a short nap, we took a walk and bike ride around to get our bearings.  Then we took a quite nap before the meet and greet that night.
 We wanted to get a view of the Mediterranean but I'm not sure why we had the photo taken into the sun - ha ha.  It was a wonderful evening of amazing food and drink (seriously, I could eat the food there for the rest of my life and never be unsatisfied.  How do American's eat such poor diets?!?!) and wonderful company.  One of the best parts of the trip was meeting all the amazing people that work for the four different arms of the company and their spouses/significant others.
 
We retired to our room that night to find the first of many gifts we would receive every day - a bottle of champagne, chocolates, bags and beautiful pashmina's.

Stay tuned for all our adventures!

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