Awards Banquet

Well last night I attended the Lincolnshire Business Awards banquet with some of my co-workers. It was so nice to get dressed up, and was so different seeing my male co-workers wearing tux's, as I typically see them in casual work attire. The evening began with a champagne reception, followed by a 3 course dinner consisting of a pork main dish and a chocolate mousse type thing for dessert. The food was wonderful! It was really nice to just talk with everyone outside of work, even though I seemed to be the one to get made fun of most of the night...because of my American words and Texas accent. Ha ha. After dinner were the 7 different awards presentations. This was interesting to watch, because short video clips were shown of the different finalists for each award, and to see that there were so many successful businesses, even in these tough economic times, shows that there is hope. We were one of four finalist for the biggest award, the Business of the Year. Unfortunately we did not win, was not expected by our managers at the table, but I still think that to be one of four finalists is pretty impressive. Maybe we will win the next one.

I am off to Edinburgh after work today, for an extended weekend. One of the girls that I met on the Wales trip is working up there, so she is picking me up at the station and I am staying with her. Should be an exciting weekend. I will post about the trip when I return Monday night.