<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057</id><updated>2011-08-19T13:51:45.591-07:00</updated><category term='Spring09 Road Shows complete'/><category term='Verde Canyon Railroad'/><category term='Road Shows'/><category term='San Diego travels'/><category term='Best Desert Fairy Tale Brownies'/><category term='Employee Network Road Shows in Nevada'/><category term='Southwest Gas and US Airways'/><category term='Road Show to Lockheed Martin'/><category term='SeaWorld animals at Employee Network events.'/><category term='Fairytale Brownies Contest'/><category term='UpComing Events'/><category term='Pictures at Hard Rock'/><category term='San Diego Contest sponsored by Days Hotel'/><category term='Universal Studios California'/><category term='new Merchants have become involved including The Arizona Diamondbacks'/><category term='and SeaLife™ Arizona Aquarium'/><category term='Honeywell'/><category term='Employee Network at City of Surprise'/><category term='Westin La Paloma in Tucson'/><category term='Trip to Sedona'/><category term='Enterprise and SeaWorld'/><category term='Employee Network Road Show to City of Surprise'/><category term='San Diego travels 2'/><category term='Big Surf'/><title type='text'>Employee Network stuff</title><subtitle type='html'>The Employee Network is the official employee discount program of more than 75 of the largest organizations, corporations and government agencies in greater Arizona and Nevada. Together our membership extends to more than 500,000 employees as well as to hundreds of local and national merchants worldwide.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>23</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-7166611084201599918</id><published>2011-08-19T13:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-19T13:51:45.721-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Stuff for The Employee Network</title><content type='html'>We've been busy this summer. Logo changes, web design changes, added a search bar all while also bringing on new Merchants and New Corporate Partners. Its been an exciting time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watch for something even more exciting coming soon. We can't tell you yet but something big is about to happen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_HZyalJ0Bwk/Tk7L0yVWysI/AAAAAAAAAHg/QiQ7a4vI6KI/s1600/newemptnetbig+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="111" qaa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_HZyalJ0Bwk/Tk7L0yVWysI/AAAAAAAAAHg/QiQ7a4vI6KI/s200/newemptnetbig+copy.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Our Road Show Season begins September 27 in Vegas! We'll be there all week with 4 awesome events. We really look forward to&amp;nbsp;Road Show Season when we get to see all our friends again while making new friends at the same time. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-7166611084201599918?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7166611084201599918/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-stuff-for-employee-network.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7166611084201599918'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7166611084201599918'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-stuff-for-employee-network.html' title='New Stuff for The Employee Network'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_HZyalJ0Bwk/Tk7L0yVWysI/AAAAAAAAAHg/QiQ7a4vI6KI/s72-c/newemptnetbig+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-2550398736982906197</id><published>2010-09-13T17:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-13T17:30:31.349-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Westin La Paloma in Tucson'/><title type='text'>Westin La Paloma Resort in Tucson</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI64OLloqFI/AAAAAAAAAGw/P7spNm1tADo/s1600/2010-08-28_12-10-27_638.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="113" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI64OLloqFI/AAAAAAAAAGw/P7spNm1tADo/s200/2010-08-28_12-10-27_638.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Tena and I found this awesome Resort in Tucson! Even better,&amp;nbsp;Westin's La Paloma is&amp;nbsp;on The Employee Network and we get a great &lt;span style="background-color: white;"&gt;employee discount&lt;/span&gt;. We were looking for a place not to far from Phoenix to celebrate our 17th Wedding Anniversary. It only took about an hour and forty minutes from Chandler to get there. I remember speaking to Dawn who handled our reservation. She was very helpful and knowledgeable about the property. After speaking to her I knew this is where we needed to spend this very important anniversary. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;Checking in was a breeze. Trish at the front desk was great. Its obvious their employees are happy and seem eager to share that happiness.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI65HMFwrBI/AAAAAAAAAG4/luSX0-S8ZBo/s1600/2010-08-27_18-43-50_367.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="113" ox="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI65HMFwrBI/AAAAAAAAAG4/luSX0-S8ZBo/s200/2010-08-27_18-43-50_367.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;We got a suite with an awesome view of the golf course and mountains. After unpacking, we went to the lobby to explore the possibilities for our evening. While standing around in the front lobby deciding which way to go, this nice lady Sandy came over and introduced herself as one of the managers and offered&amp;nbsp;us&amp;nbsp;suggestions of how to start our&amp;nbsp;festivities. First she suggested that&amp;nbsp;the Red Door Spa had a complimentary chair massage in the Azul Lounge so we both got in a celebratory chair &amp;nbsp;massage to start our night. We sat in front of this huge window and watched this unbelievable sunset on the mountains in front of us while sipping some lovely adult beverages. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI65rj8rAsI/AAAAAAAAAHA/SHwhMSyiWw0/s1600/2010-08-26_19-32-47_971.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="113" ox="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI65rj8rAsI/AAAAAAAAAHA/SHwhMSyiWw0/s200/2010-08-26_19-32-47_971.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Chris, the restaurant manager, came by our table when he found out it was our anniversary and introduced us to a nice bottle of bubbly and the menu. We had a romantic dinner at Azul there on the property while we watched the rest of the sunset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pools were awesome and they even have a really fun slide and a salt water lap pool too. Tena was excited to find that they have racket ball and I found their workout room to be complete with more than enough equipment to keep me busy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI68CcadP5I/AAAAAAAAAHI/W6P7XZ_peDI/s1600/2010-08-27_12-18-35_334.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="113" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI68CcadP5I/AAAAAAAAAHI/W6P7XZ_peDI/s200/2010-08-27_12-18-35_334.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The swim up bar and deli reminded me of when we were married in the Caribbean. We ordered room service for breakfast. We were really pleased when they said 20 minutes and they were&amp;nbsp;actually there in 20 minutes. They had lots of activities like golf and tennis that we did not have time for but we're already talking about going again. While I could go on and on, I know you will enjoy this place and its friendly staff.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Hello to my other special friends Carrie, Mark, Frank and Diane who all just added more fun to this very special occasion!&amp;nbsp; Cheers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;THE WESTIN LA PALOMA RESORT &amp;amp; SPA&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(520) 742-6000 MUST ask for IN HOUSE RESERVATIONS ext. 7845 (For any reservation)&lt;br /&gt;Five pools, swim-up bar, waterslide, Jack Nicklaus Signature golf, Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa, Tennis &amp;amp; Health Center, childcare, 6 restaurants including Janos, and shopping! Restrictions apply. Rate starting at $89.00 per night per room. Rates are for Traditional Rooms only. Exclusive of resort service fee, tax, and gratuities, based on availability, and not valid for groups. See discounted rates in the display page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://the%20westin%20la%20paloma%20resort%20&amp;amp;%20spa/"&gt;Visit our display page&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; Ask for In House Reservation and your Employee Network Discount!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-2550398736982906197?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2550398736982906197/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/westin-la-paloma-resort-in-tucson.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2550398736982906197'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2550398736982906197'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/09/westin-la-paloma-resort-in-tucson.html' title='Westin La Paloma Resort in Tucson'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TI64OLloqFI/AAAAAAAAAGw/P7spNm1tADo/s72-c/2010-08-28_12-10-27_638.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-2889084582924075209</id><published>2010-06-01T11:35:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-01T11:37:13.994-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The end of the Spring Road Shows</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVD5YTKNPI/AAAAAAAAAFw/C7yLyhI8EpA/s1600/SDC10652.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVD5YTKNPI/AAAAAAAAAFw/C7yLyhI8EpA/s200/SDC10652.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Another awesome Road Show Season! 18 unbelievable events in just the span of Spring 2010. We visited with thousands of really cool people during this time. Our Members had unprecedented opportunities to get to know many of our Merchant Merchant Partners, while our our Merchant Partners were able to showcase their various businesses like never before. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVHVY2v1hI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/0BCq8Z828OY/s1600/SDC10547.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="150" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVHVY2v1hI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/0BCq8Z828OY/s200/SDC10547.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Our last Show of season was at The City of Chandler. We really had a great time with our Employee Network Car Show. Chandler Fire brought out 2 Engines and Chandler PD showed off their Police &lt;span class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;Chevelle&lt;/span&gt; Race Car and their Armored Vehicle. Our little Red Roadster was there with Trailer and several new cars from San Tan Subaru, Five Star Ford, &lt;span class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;Thorobred&lt;/span&gt; Chevrolet and San Tan Honda. RV Rental outlet&amp;nbsp;brought out a 31 foot RV and we even managed to fit &lt;span class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;Mazatzal&lt;/span&gt; Hotel &amp;amp; Casino's wrapped van as well.&amp;nbsp;Tunes were playing and balloons were plentiful as always. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVLsWli1JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cx3w_x50GDw/s1600/SDC10559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="150" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVLsWli1JI/AAAAAAAAAGY/cx3w_x50GDw/s200/SDC10559.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Even Chandler Fire took a few minutes out for some cutting up in The Employee Network Car!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;We took lots of great pictures all during the season. Check out&amp;nbsp;the &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/pastevents.html"&gt;"Past Events"&lt;/a&gt; category on The Employee Network&amp;nbsp;and look for pictures of yourself and your friends. A must see are the pictures from North Vista Hospital in &lt;span class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;Las&lt;/span&gt; Vegas. Sonya from &lt;span class="goog-spellcheck-word"&gt;SeaWorld&lt;/span&gt; brought animals, the pictures are great!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVOWgpzq8I/AAAAAAAAAGg/7m3WhiwNNUc/s1600/P1010955.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="150" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVOWgpzq8I/AAAAAAAAAGg/7m3WhiwNNUc/s200/P1010955.JPG" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We greatly appreciate all that were involved in making this Road Show Season 1 of the best ever. Thank you from all of us to our Awesome Employee Members for making us feel so welcomed. Thank you to our Corporate Benefits people for doing such an outstanding job getting the word out about The Employee Network and our Road Show visits and thank you to all Merchant Partners for your professionalism and dedication for without you all, we would be not...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;We look forward to the upcoming Fall Road Show season. Wishing you a great summer from The Employee Network!!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-2889084582924075209?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2889084582924075209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-awesome-road-show-season-18.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2889084582924075209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2889084582924075209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/06/another-awesome-road-show-season-18.html' title='The end of the Spring Road Shows'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/TAVD5YTKNPI/AAAAAAAAAFw/C7yLyhI8EpA/s72-c/SDC10652.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-7895313236195360891</id><published>2010-05-09T18:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-09T18:54:46.064-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='SeaWorld animals at Employee Network events.'/><title type='text'>North Vista Hospital event May 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/S-dhOmsk4-I/AAAAAAAAAFY/2oe597y_y3Q/s1600/NVistaSp10169+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="271" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/S-dhOmsk4-I/AAAAAAAAAFY/2oe597y_y3Q/s400/NVistaSp10169+copy.jpg" tt="true" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Check this out! This a picture from our Road Show Event at North Vista Hospital in Las Vegas. It was really extra cool as our awesome SeaWorld Rep Sonya Wade was able to arange to bring animals to our event. It was great to visit this facility for the 1st time. The North Vista staff that visited were&amp;nbsp;really welcoming and made us feel like family. Melissa and the HR people did a great job getting the word out to everybody there. I think we met most of their Employees while we were there.&amp;nbsp;Our Merchant Partners were really happy at the reception we recieved. It was a great way to end our Nevada Spring Season. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Should have lots of the pictures we took in the past events category at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.employeenetworknv.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;www.employeenetworknv.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;We have lots of great and candid pictures of many of you staffers from this really cool day! We look forward to seeing you all again soon! I know you all will miss Melissa too.... We wish her well in her next adventure!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-7895313236195360891?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7895313236195360891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/05/north-vista-hospital-event-may-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7895313236195360891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7895313236195360891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/05/north-vista-hospital-event-may-2010.html' title='North Vista Hospital event May 2010'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/S-dhOmsk4-I/AAAAAAAAAFY/2oe597y_y3Q/s72-c/NVistaSp10169+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-3046515320552713412</id><published>2010-04-28T18:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-28T18:11:00.268-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='new Merchants have become involved including The Arizona Diamondbacks'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Big Surf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='and SeaLife™ Arizona Aquarium'/><title type='text'>Spring Road Shows are here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/S9jalD_7YqI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/YQPzMaQAFPY/s1600/DSCF5147.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/S9jalD_7YqI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/YQPzMaQAFPY/s320/DSCF5147.JPG" tt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is an unbelievable season already.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Direct Alliance 04/21/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Maricopa Medical Center 04/16/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hard Rock Hotel &amp;amp; Casino Vegas&amp;nbsp;03/18/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Southwest Gas North Las Vegas 03/17/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Southwest Gas Corporate Las Vegas 03/16/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rio Salado College 03/09/10&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Our May schedule is even crazier!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;City of Henderson Nevada 05/05/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;City of Tempe 05/06/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;North Vista Hospital Las Vegas&amp;nbsp;05/07/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;St. Joseph's Hospital 05/11/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Town of Gilbert 05/12/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;City of Surprise 05/13/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;City of Scottsdale 05/19/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lockheed Martin 05/20/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Waste Management 05/21/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;City of Chandler 05/26/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;US Airways 05/24/10 &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check out the pictures of the past events at&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/pastevents.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.employeenetwork.com/pastevents.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;This year is booming over here at The Employee Network! Lots of new Merchants have become involved including The Arizona Diamondbacks, Big Surf, and SeaLife™ Arizona Aquarium and more. We have tickets for sale at special employee discounted rates as always. Universal Studios has gone electronic for us. that means we are able to email tickets just as we have been doing for Disney and SeaWorld. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-3046515320552713412?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3046515320552713412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-road-shows-are-here.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/3046515320552713412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/3046515320552713412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2010/04/spring-road-shows-are-here.html' title='Spring Road Shows are here!'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/S9jalD_7YqI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/YQPzMaQAFPY/s72-c/DSCF5147.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-4207343014898610494</id><published>2009-11-22T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-22T17:18:41.848-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Honeywell'/><title type='text'>Honeywell, our last Road Show of the season!!!</title><content type='html'>Just 1 more Road Show for this year. Honeywell will round out the season on December 4 with a total of 21 Shows for the 09 fall season. We are pleased and honored to have been invited to so many of these awesome Employee Events. My staff and I look forward to our upcoming Road Show schedule&amp;nbsp;starting in late Feb. 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We'll see you Honeywell people soon with lots of&amp;nbsp;your favorite Merchants along with&amp;nbsp;many new ones as well. Expect to see&amp;nbsp;50&amp;nbsp;of Employee Networks coolest Merchant Partners in the hanger. Plan to do some holiday shopping while there. More than 50 door prizes will be up for grabs too! Want to see who will be there?&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/2009fallevents/honeywellpage.htm"&gt;bump this&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We&amp;nbsp;greatly appreciate having the opportunity to meet with so many of you this past year and look forward to seeing you all again soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-4207343014898610494?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/4207343014898610494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/11/honeywell-our-last-road-show-of-season.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/4207343014898610494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/4207343014898610494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/11/honeywell-our-last-road-show-of-season.html' title='Honeywell, our last Road Show of the season!!!'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-6581152245751192671</id><published>2009-10-15T17:54:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T17:57:37.414-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UpComing Events'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road Shows'/><title type='text'>New "UpComing Events" category</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/StfDGR8P_oI/AAAAAAAAAFI/gMYM2gRaaf8/s1600-h/DSCF4490+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img $r="true" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/StfDGR8P_oI/AAAAAAAAAFI/gMYM2gRaaf8/s200/DSCF4490+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;By popular demand we have just added an &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/upcomingevents.htm"&gt;Upcoming Events&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;category to the nav bar. Now you can find out when we will be at your company to visit. This will also be the place to find out about other events like Employee Network Parties, Trips, Motorcycle Rides and other fun stuff. You will also be the 1st to know who we are bringing and what there door prizes will be. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;You can also check out the Past Events category to find pictures of you and your friends that we may have taken while there. We will usualy find time to update within about a week after visiting. As you will see, we're crazy with events. We'll see yo soon!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-6581152245751192671?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/6581152245751192671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-up-coming-events-category.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/6581152245751192671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/6581152245751192671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-up-coming-events-category.html' title='New &quot;UpComing Events&quot; category'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/StfDGR8P_oI/AAAAAAAAAFI/gMYM2gRaaf8/s72-c/DSCF4490+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-3285590558083129056</id><published>2009-10-06T12:46:00.005-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T13:05:03.143-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Southwest Gas and US Airways'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pictures at Hard Rock'/><title type='text'>Vegas Road Show Pics Up!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SsufLobQiCI/AAAAAAAAAE4/sv5-4sSZIY8/s1600-h/Vegas+Fall09+116+copy.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 192px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389576401258055714" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SsufLobQiCI/AAAAAAAAAE4/sv5-4sSZIY8/s200/Vegas+Fall09+116+copy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Vegas Road Show Pictures Posted! Tons of pictures of our favorite members from Nevada. Check to see if you or your friends made it to our scrap book. We took these pictures at both offices of Southwest Gas, The Hard Rock and US Airways.&lt;br /&gt;Here is a link directly to the &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/pastevents.html"&gt;"Past Events"&lt;/a&gt; category;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to all that actually smiled and even posed for shots. We had a lot of fun taking these shots so have a look.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you at City of North Las Vegas October 21&lt;br /&gt;and City of Henderson on October 22. We're looking forward to meeting all of you at North Las Vegas for the 1st time and thrilled to see you all again from City of Henderson. Come see us and pickup your VIP Cards and enter to win all the great door prizes. We'll have several new Merchants as well as some of your favorites as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you soon!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-3285590558083129056?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/3285590558083129056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/10/vegas-road-show-pics-up.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/3285590558083129056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/3285590558083129056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/10/vegas-road-show-pics-up.html' title='Vegas Road Show Pics Up!'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SsufLobQiCI/AAAAAAAAAE4/sv5-4sSZIY8/s72-c/Vegas+Fall09+116+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-2089644617644081860</id><published>2009-09-27T18:54:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T19:49:23.001-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Employee Network Road Shows in Nevada'/><title type='text'>Another success in Nevada!</title><content type='html'>Just got back from our first Road Shows of the season. 4 in a row in Nevada no less. What a great way to start a season. We met face to face with thousands while there, I even remembered some of the standouts from our last visit there and they even brought new people with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Southwest Gas District office then The Hard Rock, US Airways and last but not least the Southwest Gas Corporate office. It was great to meet so many fun people. We really appreciate the awesome reception that we received by all, its a lot of hard work for for my team as well as our dedicated Merchant Partners and these people absolutely made it all worth it. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It was also really cool to meet all the people that we had only known on the phone. There's so many people to thank for making this thing happen that I will need another Blog page to do it, so look for it later in the week but for now, You all rock!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We took lots of fun pictures and we'll get them up on the page as quick as possible. Check out the past events category towards the end of the week to see if you're there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank everyone of you who took your time to visit with us, we really appreciate it!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you in the Spring...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-2089644617644081860?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2089644617644081860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-success-in-nevada.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2089644617644081860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2089644617644081860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-success-in-nevada.html' title='Another success in Nevada!'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-7596729114091521574</id><published>2009-09-17T17:25:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-17T17:31:43.164-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fairytale Brownies Contest'/><title type='text'>Employee Network Members Win Fairytale Brownies Contest</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Thursday, September 17, 2009 by Hilary Lee Fairy Tale Brownies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fairytale Brownies is a member of a local merchant group here in Phoenix called The Employee Network. The Employee Network is the official employee discount program of 75 of the largest corporations &amp;amp; government agencies in Arizona and Nevada. During the summer months, we sometimes collaborate with The Employee Network on creating fun and engaging things for group members (over 500,000 of them!). Recently Fairytale Brownies sponsored a contest ran by The Empoyee Network. It was a scavenger hunt of sorts, we asked members to answer several questions about Fairytale Brownies and email their answers to be entered for a chance to win 3 awesome gourmet brownie gifts from Fairytale Brownies. The answers were scattered throughout our blog blog.brownies.com and on our Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/fairytalebrownies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had over 100 correct entries! Congratulations to our winners!&lt;br /&gt;1st place - Wendy S. from the City of Mesa. Wendy won a Brownie Extravaganza.&lt;br /&gt;2nd place - Susan G. from Bank of America in Tempe. Susan won a Fairytale Delights.&lt;br /&gt;3rd place - Lori S. from Honeywell in Phoenix. Lori won a Fairytale Sprite 36.&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy your winnings and don't forget to share those decadent fudge brownies with your friends and families. They will love you for it =).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-7596729114091521574?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7596729114091521574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/09/employee-network-members-win-fairytale.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7596729114091521574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7596729114091521574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/09/employee-network-members-win-fairytale.html' title='Employee Network Members Win Fairytale Brownies Contest'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-2071184365368708725</id><published>2009-09-15T12:33:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T12:51:53.988-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Best Desert Fairy Tale Brownies'/><title type='text'>Fairy Tale Brownies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Sq_vbiwYQVI/AAAAAAAAAEw/C-2WzDA1_sI/s1600-h/fairy+tale.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381783336196260178" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Sq_vbiwYQVI/AAAAAAAAAEw/C-2WzDA1_sI/s200/fairy+tale.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here is a note I got from one of our favorite Employee Network Merchants. We greatly appreciate your help to make them top of their category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hey everyone, we’ve been nominated for Best Dessert in the Valley by Arizona Foothills magazine. Voting is now through Dec. 2, and you can vote once a day, so tell all your friends and family to vote for us! &lt;a href="http://arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/voting/voting/30.html"&gt;http://arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/voting/voting/30.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please pass this on to your friends and family so they can vote too. Thank you!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-2071184365368708725?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2071184365368708725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/09/fairy-tale-brownies.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2071184365368708725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2071184365368708725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/09/fairy-tale-brownies.html' title='Fairy Tale Brownies'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Sq_vbiwYQVI/AAAAAAAAAEw/C-2WzDA1_sI/s72-c/fairy+tale.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-5402706885114913657</id><published>2009-08-30T17:55:00.007-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T14:16:40.852-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Universal Studios California'/><title type='text'>Adventures of Steve &amp; Tena Universal Studios</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SptfvwMqmWI/AAAAAAAAAEo/jhkCodnMQ40/s1600-h/Simpsons1.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375995544451044514" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 220px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SptfduUWVKI/AAAAAAAAAEg/0wkfyDeARjw/s320/jurrasic.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Hi all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OK so when I tell this story you ladies will probably say "typical" and you dudes will probably say "huh,"and want to use the idea. Tena and I just celebrated 26 years together this last week! I'm sure you're probably thinking to your self that we must have just been children and hmmm, were still just children. So much in fact that going to theme parks is a favorite anytime quick trip. So this year I had absolutely no plans for our anniversary other than the old standby of last minute roses and dinner at that Italian restaurant again. Well at least I remembered this year right? As we are about to announce our new e-ticket program with &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/services/theme.html"&gt;Universal Studios&lt;/a&gt; I got the wild idea of going to Universal Studios for our Anniversary. Guys, you must be thinking that Steve Kogan is a genius! An anniversary that includes rides and fun, and stuff I actually want to do. Oh and a room and dinner are just part of the deal. Another great plus for this is the nightlife right at City Walk right on the property. Great places to eat, shop, dance or even see movie. Lots of daytime shopping there as well. Also great for families with something for everyone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its an easy quick trip at only about 6 hours from Chandler. We hadn't been for for about 3 years and I knew that some upgrades were made as well as the addition of The new Simpsons ride. This is a must do and it was so good we went twice. Back to the Future was cool but The Simpsons ride is way better. If you haven't been on the Mummy Returns ride I can tell you that its also a blast. Tena screamed till it was over and that just makes me laugh. They must have also beefed up the water cannons on Jurassic Park cause we got soaked. Overall we went on every ride and enjoyed all the shows, we had a blast. The food at the park is easy to get to with lots of great choices. You should definitely think about buying the all you can eat ticket when you 1st get inside the park I think it is a real value. If you can part with the extra bucks, the Front of the line pass or even the VIP passes are a treat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Halloween promises to be a scary time at Universal Studios. The Employee Network will have special tickets for October. We will let you know more as we get a bit closer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I should have some good news to share about hotel partnership this week or next so keep an eye on our Newsletter or call us and we'll tell you about what we are working on. By the way, special thanks to Brian Jago and Eric Sheppard for making our Anniversary one to remember.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Is there another trip coming before Road Show season? You'll just have to check back soon to find out...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-5402706885114913657?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5402706885114913657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/08/adventures-of-steve-tena-universal.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/5402706885114913657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/5402706885114913657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/08/adventures-of-steve-tena-universal.html' title='Adventures of Steve &amp; Tena Universal Studios'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SptfduUWVKI/AAAAAAAAAEg/0wkfyDeARjw/s72-c/jurrasic.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-8153375128041965386</id><published>2009-08-24T18:35:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T18:54:45.204-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Diego Contest sponsored by Days Hotel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Enterprise and SeaWorld'/><title type='text'>San Diego Summer Contest</title><content type='html'>Just want to give a huge thank you to Courtney, Jeff and Sonya the sponsors of our San Diego Summer Contest! These awesome people from &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/daysinnhotelcircle.html"&gt;Day's Hotel (Hotel Circle)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/Services/autorentals.html"&gt;Enterprise Rent A Car&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/Sea_World/seaworld.htm"&gt;SeaWorld&lt;/a&gt; partnered up to create an excellent contest for our members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will announce the winner later this week. We'll try to get some pictures of the winner for ya and post them here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay tuned as our next contest is about to be introduced. This one is all about the chocolate! That's your hint so make sure you look for the contest banner or check the newsletter later this week for more details. CHOCOLATE!!!!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-8153375128041965386?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/8153375128041965386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/08/san-diego-summer-contest.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/8153375128041965386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/8153375128041965386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/08/san-diego-summer-contest.html' title='San Diego Summer Contest'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-8952181741730309931</id><published>2009-07-27T17:34:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T18:28:25.649-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Diego travels 2'/><title type='text'>Steve &amp; Tena's SanDiego Zoo excursion</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Sm5TSvIzROI/AAAAAAAAAEY/3IhldW6DoIo/s1600-h/stevezoo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363315787600970978" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 194px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Sm5TSvIzROI/AAAAAAAAAEY/3IhldW6DoIo/s200/stevezoo.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;While I feel one more trip out of the heat is in order before Fall, let me tell you about the last of our San Diego excursion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;As you know we did SeaWorld, but we also visited &lt;a href="http://www.sandiegozoo.org/"&gt;The San Diego Zoo &lt;/a&gt;too. Tena and I had a great time while also hanging out with our friend W.. What a crack up, those of you who know our buddy can only imagine. We got there in the morning and started off with a nice bus tour of the park. We sat up on top but we probably could have seen more down below. After that we were all hungry so we went to Albert's Restaurant in the zoo. It offers full service fine dining and includes open-air deck seating overlooking a private waterfall. I had a really great flat iron steak sandwich. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Did not have time to go on the sky ride which was inclusive in our tickets. We should have done that first and headed to the other side of the park and worked our way back. I make that mistake every time we go. Our tickets also include the shuttle which is a bus that lets you get off in the areas that you want to visit and then picks you to go to next area of choice. i would have been happier doing the shuttle thing and not doing the Bus Tour. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The one big thing that I wanted to see was the brand new &lt;a href="http://www.elephantodyssey.com/"&gt;Elephant Odyssey exhibit&lt;/a&gt;. They put huge dollars into this deal and its awesome to see. Reminded me of the movie Jurassic Park the way they built it. You need to check it out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just in case you want to know where we stayed, we chose Mission Plaza Hotel &amp;amp; Suites by SeaWorld. Its one of our newer Merchant Partners so we thought we would give it ago. Right down the street from SeaWorld so it was convenient to where we wanted to be. We, in Steve and tena fashion stayed in one of the suites. It was cool because the bedroom was separate from the rest of the room and it had no windows. It was quiet and DARK. It was hard to get up in the morning as we were so comfi. The front desk people were friendly and helpful. There is a pool, work out facility and a restaurant on site. I will tell you that there was a bar b que place across the street that looked awesome. We saw people lined up around the building all day and into the later evening. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We also drug W. on a bay cruise in the afternoon, we drank to much but we were on vacation! It was cool to see all the military ships up close. You will definitely have a new respect for our Navy when you get that close. Speaking of getting close if you want to get so inspired that you can't help but feel our Stars and Stripes, go spend the day on the Midway Aircraft Carrier, you'll go away with a new respect, I promise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, another great time down as we try to get some down time in before the Road Show season is again upon us. If you want some awesome Mexican food, email me and I'll share my new favorite place in Old Town and the name of my new best buddy the bar manager.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-8952181741730309931?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/8952181741730309931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/07/steve-tenas-sandiego-zoo-excursion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/8952181741730309931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/8952181741730309931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/07/steve-tenas-sandiego-zoo-excursion.html' title='Steve &amp; Tena&apos;s SanDiego Zoo excursion'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Sm5TSvIzROI/AAAAAAAAAEY/3IhldW6DoIo/s72-c/stevezoo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-7878890127510629884</id><published>2009-07-12T15:54:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T17:44:40.657-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Diego travels'/><title type='text'>Steve &amp; Tena's San Diego travels</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SlpssspDFVI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/yG_4sP11NeU/s1600-h/TenaShamu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357714221863998802" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SlpssspDFVI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/yG_4sP11NeU/s320/TenaShamu.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Another installment of Steve &amp;amp; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Tena's&lt;/span&gt; travels. Recently we decided to get over to San Diego for a few days. In little more than a 5 hour drive we were there. The weather was awesome so we decided that we should 1st go to &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/Sea_World/seaworld.htm"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;SeaWorld&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and then &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/sandiegozoo.html"&gt;San Diego Zoo&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were so happy to be out of the heat. I was also pleased at how much easier it was to get a cold adult beverage at &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;SeaWorld&lt;/span&gt; than I had remembered. I noticed that the park was busy but not busy enough that we really ever had to stand in lines for more than a couple of minutes. That's kind of a treat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We've been to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;SeaWorld&lt;/span&gt; quite a few times over the years. I never knew that you could go into the stables to see the Clydesdale Horses. We were both amazed that you could walk right up and touch them. Can't believe we never went in there before. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I wanted to go on Journey to Atlantis which is a really cool water ride but &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Tena&lt;/span&gt; was to chicken.  We did walk &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;through&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;childrens&lt;/span&gt; area, it looks like a blast. She &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;wouldn't&lt;/span&gt; let me play in there either.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well I'll talk to you some more later about San Diego Zoo but let me tell you, if you haven't been to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;SeaWorld&lt;/span&gt; for awhile, GO! I'm not sure you will ever again be able to be there with such light crowds. Don't forget, we have discounted tickets for ya here at &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/Services/treasurechest.htm"&gt;The Employee Network&lt;/a&gt; and a second visit is free. If you don't know, we can email these tickets to you in a matter of hours and you get to take them right to the gate and that means no line for tickets!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-7878890127510629884?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7878890127510629884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/07/steve-tenas-san-diego-travels.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7878890127510629884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7878890127510629884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/07/steve-tenas-san-diego-travels.html' title='Steve &amp; Tena&apos;s San Diego travels'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SlpssspDFVI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/yG_4sP11NeU/s72-c/TenaShamu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-7362773683869865089</id><published>2009-06-30T17:32:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-30T17:48:18.737-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Verde Canyon Railroad'/><title type='text'>Adventures of Steve &amp; Tena on the Verde Canyon Railroad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkqvnQsWmaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Vx2a-JN9a-E/s1600-h/nighttrainsmall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353284196114012578" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 140px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 116px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkqvnQsWmaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Vx2a-JN9a-E/s200/nighttrainsmall.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;You should know, T and I travel around a bit after Road Show Season's. So here's another adventure to tell you about. &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/verdecanyon.html"&gt;The Verde Canyon Railroad &lt;/a&gt;train ride through the awesome Verde Valley. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Verde Canyon Railroad folks are the best. They welcome you aboard and you know they are happy that you're there. We took the 1st class car and let me tell you it's luxury baby! Big, bold, suck- you-in-to-your-seat couches invite you to enjoy the beautiful view thru their picture windows. There is a complete bar with top shelf liquors and an expert Bar Tender to make whatever your heart desires. The bar tender was quick to get everyone involved in looking out the windows as she pointed out wild life and rock formations. Just as a side note, many of you reading this have met Teresa from the Verde Canyon Railroad at our Employee Network Road Shows. Don't be bashful about dropping her name, not sure it will really get you anything more than a smile but ya never know. Go take this trip, you'll be happy you did! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-7362773683869865089?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/7362773683869865089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/adventures-of-steve-tena-on-verde.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7362773683869865089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/7362773683869865089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/adventures-of-steve-tena-on-verde.html' title='Adventures of Steve &amp; Tena on the Verde Canyon Railroad'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkqvnQsWmaI/AAAAAAAAAEI/Vx2a-JN9a-E/s72-c/nighttrainsmall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-2982244768271694297</id><published>2009-06-30T10:44:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-30T11:06:17.003-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cudo's to Big Daddy's Smokehouse</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpT9nuBlKI/AAAAAAAAAD4/geDDU0rvpjA/s1600-h/BigDaddy%27s.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353183425182405794" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 158px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpT9nuBlKI/AAAAAAAAAD4/geDDU0rvpjA/s200/BigDaddy%27s.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Official Employee Network Merchant Partner supports Phoenix Children's Hospital&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Press Release 6/30/09 &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;June 20th, 2009 &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/bigdaddys.htm"&gt;Big Daddy's Smokehouse Sports Grill &lt;/a&gt;had its inaugural Big Daddy's Burger Eating Contest. Co-sponsored with LA Boxing of Ahwatukee, the event was well received by the Ahwatukee and West Chandler community. With 6 contestants all vying for the Grand Prize and the wish to be crowned "King Big Daddy" it was a close race amongst the top three.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first place winner and Inaugural King Big Daddy is Mike Sullivan from Ahwatukee. He consumed 4 Big Daddy Burgers and 1 Pound of french fries in 43 minutes and 29 seconds. This equals about 5 pounds of food. "It was an incredible event, everyone had a great time and the top three finishers were very close to each other" said, Al Ames the Vice President of Happiness. "I Love the food here and when I heard that the Burger Eating Contest was to help out the Phoenix Children's Hospital, I knew I had to join. I hope this contest gets as big as the Nathan's Hot Dog Contest. It was a lot of fun and most of all a great cause", said Mike Sullivan Winner and King Big Daddy of the Burger Eating Contest.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1st Place and crowned "King Big Daddy" is Mike Sullivan an 09 grad from Desert Vista High School.&lt;br /&gt;2nd Place was Vince Lucero from Casa Grande and a Mixed Martial Arts fighter.&lt;br /&gt;3rd Place was Charles Parker of Ahwatukee&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All net proceeds went to the Phoenix Children's Hospital. "Being able to donate to such a great hospital that is designed to help children from all walks of life is very rewarding", said Dustin Hayden, General Manager of LA Boxing of Ahwatukee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I couldn't agree more with Dustin", said Ames, "I remember how great the Phoenix Children's Hospital was when my daughter had to have surgery there". "It was a very trying time and the Hospital did a great job making my family and I as comfortable and informed as possible".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big Daddy's Smokehouse Sports Grill is hopeful that we can do more of these charitable events. For more information on how we can help your organization please contact the President of Happiness, Staci Ames at &lt;a onclick="return true;if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=staci%40bigdaddyssmokehouse.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=staci%40bigdaddyssmokehouse.com');}; return false;" href="mailto:staci@bigdaddyssmokehouse.com" target="_blank" __onclick="if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=staci%40bigdaddyssmokehouse.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=staci%40bigdaddyssmokehouse.com');}; return false;" mce_onclick="if(window.location==top.location){Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=staci%40bigdaddyssmokehouse.com');}else{top.Popup.composeWindow('pcompose.php?sendto=staci%40bigdaddyssmokehouse.com');}; return false;"&gt;staci@bigdaddyssmokehouse.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Al Ames&lt;br /&gt;Vice President of Happiness&lt;br /&gt;Big Daddy's Smokehouse Sports Grill&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bigdaddyssmokehouse.com/" target="_blank" mce_href="http://www.bigdaddyssmokehouse.com"&gt;http://www.bigdaddyssmokehouse.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-2982244768271694297?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2982244768271694297/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/cudos-to-big-daddys-smokehouse.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2982244768271694297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2982244768271694297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/cudos-to-big-daddys-smokehouse.html' title='Cudo&apos;s to Big Daddy&apos;s Smokehouse'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpT9nuBlKI/AAAAAAAAAD4/geDDU0rvpjA/s72-c/BigDaddy%27s.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-8950786579698406790</id><published>2009-06-13T15:35:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-13T16:17:40.317-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Spring09 Road Shows complete'/><title type='text'>The Employee Network completes the Spring Road Shows!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SjQzc92e9bI/AAAAAAAAADI/TlWrg6FYn4o/s1600-h/DogOfficer.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346955230328059314" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SjQzc92e9bI/AAAAAAAAADI/TlWrg6FYn4o/s320/DogOfficer.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Another season down and what a season it was! The Employee Network and their awesome Merchant Partners shine in the glory of what might be the best Road Show Season ever. "We finished up in our 1st event ever at Lockheed Martin yesterday" said Steve Kogan President/Founder of The Employee Network. It was a great day as they were welcomed with open arms by the employees of this great company. "I don't know how many of them we saw but it was a lot" said Steve. They even parked The little Red Car in front of the guard shack with the lights and music blaring. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The events went off without a hitch this season. No catastrophes, injuries or equipment damage and the Merchant Partners were quite pleased with the new procedure changes. Steve says there are more changes coming before the next season as well. Its time to get back to the basics with a good old fashioned keep it simple routine. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nevada Road Shows went well too. First was City of Henderson and then 2 at Southwest Gas with our finish at US Airways. Steve said "It was a tough week but we all had a great time with great showings of employees at all". All three are already requesting to schedule a fall date. Hard Rock Hotel is tentatively set for September 24th. The fall Nevada Road Shows will be huge as will be Arizona's already huge upcoming schedule. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Employee Network has made some great additions as well this season. Like the brand new VIP Membership Card that was introduced at the Nevada Road Shows. This will give new members a sense of belonging while they share the Employee Network brand with Nevada. The Employee Network's 1st order of 18,000 high quality plastic, all black, VIP cards will be distributed freely at all Road Show Events from here on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The web pages have been re-designed with the nav bar broken out. This will keep the clicks down while cumbersome category searching will be no more. "Its a lot more to look at but ultimately I believe our Merchant Partners will benefit", said Steve. They are still working on some of the category names as a work in progress. The colors of the pages will change over the next couple of weeks as well to give a more updated look. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This new blog has been installed on the site. The Employee Network will use the Blog to talk about events, share ideas, and brag about their Merchant Partners. This will add to the already high Google Rating making The Employee Network even more relevant to the World Wide Web communities. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you have not visited their web sites in the last couple of weeks, make a point to do so now. If you see something they did not, drop a line to Andrea or Steve, they'll appreciate it. Also, check out the Past Events Category, you'll find all the &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/pastevents.html"&gt;event pictures &lt;/a&gt;are posted up to date including the Lockheed Martin event. Enjoy the summer! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.employeenetworknv.com/"&gt;http://www.employeenetworknv.com/&lt;/a&gt; Nevada &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/"&gt;http://www.employeenetwork.com/&lt;/a&gt; Arizona.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-8950786579698406790?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/8950786579698406790/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/employee-network-completes-spring-road.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/8950786579698406790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/8950786579698406790'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/employee-network-completes-spring-road.html' title='The Employee Network completes the Spring Road Shows!'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SjQzc92e9bI/AAAAAAAAADI/TlWrg6FYn4o/s72-c/DogOfficer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-5135191277228671703</id><published>2009-06-08T17:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T17:46:57.029-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Road Show to Lockheed Martin'/><title type='text'>Road Show to Lockheed Martin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si2wLv1d50I/AAAAAAAAAAM/2QAXYCZZJqk/s1600-h/DSCF3450_JPG.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345122048624420674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si2wLv1d50I/AAAAAAAAAAM/2QAXYCZZJqk/s200/DSCF3450_JPG.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wow, our last Road Show for the season! I love the way it will end at Lockheed Martin too. This will be our first event ever at Lockheed and we are all really excited about it. I visited there today to tour our space. I met Cindy and Cookie and feel already like they are going to be good buds of mine. I was pleased to find a color flier about our event right on the security desk. We will have about 40 of our Merchant Partners there with us so that means we will have a lot of door prizes. That always makes it fun. The space is big so we will blow up lots of balloons to make it a party. If you are a Lockheed employee reading this, make sure you come by and visit us on June 11 10am - 2pm in the All Hands Room. Look for the &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/"&gt;Employee Network's&lt;/a&gt; little red roadster out front, you can't miss it. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-5135191277228671703?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5135191277228671703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/road-show-to-lockheed-martin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/5135191277228671703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/5135191277228671703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/road-show-to-lockheed-martin.html' title='Road Show to Lockheed Martin'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si2wLv1d50I/AAAAAAAAAAM/2QAXYCZZJqk/s72-c/DSCF3450_JPG.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-4692955504700877032</id><published>2009-06-04T18:24:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-30T17:00:01.740-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Trip to Sedona'/><title type='text'>Staying at The Sedona Real Resort</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Skqm6I1BP_I/AAAAAAAAAEA/0rqLzMkW8Xg/s1600-h/displaysedona2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353274624815742962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 185px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Skqm6I1BP_I/AAAAAAAAAEA/0rqLzMkW8Xg/s320/displaysedona2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Just wanted to tell you all what a great time we had last weekend. We stayed at &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/sedonareal.html"&gt;The Sedona Real Resort&lt;/a&gt;. Among other stuff we also road the rails on &lt;a href="http://www.employeenetwork.com/verdecanyon.html"&gt;The Verde Canyon Railroad&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The room at Sedona Real was beautiful. We opted for one of the suites although we saw some of the other rooms that would have been awesome too. They even have a giant room with a full kitchen that would be perfect for the fam. Comfy bed, soft linens, cold air conditioning, fireplace and a Jacuzzi tub right in the living room! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The staff was really friendly and the concierge knowledgeable about their Sedona community. The grounds were manicured with lots of green plantings. There were so many things to do right down the street like hiking, Jeep tours (Pink Jeep next time), food, wine tasting and nightlife. We were tremendously happy and look forward to our next visit. Go visit, you won't be disappointed and The Employee Network discount of 25% wont hurt your feelings either. Next week I'll tell you about our trip on the Verde Canyon Railroad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-4692955504700877032?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/4692955504700877032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-wanted-to-tell-you-all-what-great.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/4692955504700877032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/4692955504700877032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-wanted-to-tell-you-all-what-great.html' title='Staying at The Sedona Real Resort'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Skqm6I1BP_I/AAAAAAAAAEA/0rqLzMkW8Xg/s72-c/displaysedona2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-5148395910148228299</id><published>2009-06-02T19:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T19:37:14.004-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Employee Network at City of Surprise'/><title type='text'>City of Surprise a success!</title><content type='html'>The Employee Network did City of Surprise today. It was awesome with not even a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;hick up&lt;/span&gt; in our setup.  The HR people there are a great team and super easy to work with.  Andrea has been just awesome at making change to the process and setup of our events.  You can already tell how much the Merchant Partners are responding to the change.  The Employee Members at The City are really cool to work with.  All of us enjoy this event every time we do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had this one employee tell Andrea and I that she never wins anything.  I told her that every time someone says that they win.  End of the day came and we pulled the winner for the grand prize, she won!  Just makes me smile!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-5148395910148228299?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/5148395910148228299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/city-of-surprise-success.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/5148395910148228299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/5148395910148228299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/city-of-surprise-success.html' title='City of Surprise a success!'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-6992807297798466603</id><published>2009-05-26T15:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-26T15:13:04.849-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Employee Network Road Show to City of Surprise'/><title type='text'>City of Surprise Road Show</title><content type='html'>Getting excited about the next Road Show scheduled for June 2 2009. We will have about 30 of our Merchant Partners with lots of great door prizes and balloons. We are bringing The Employee Network trailer and that means we will have the little red sport out there too. If you are in the neighborhood, we will be at The Library. Open the windows and listen for the tunes from the trailer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-6992807297798466603?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/6992807297798466603/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/city-of-surprise-road-show.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/6992807297798466603'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/6992807297798466603'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/city-of-surprise-road-show.html' title='City of Surprise Road Show'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-966482501279864057.post-2854270787307664342</id><published>2009-05-23T08:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T16:19:47.214-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nevada Road Shows</title><content type='html'>It was an awesome week in Nevada for our very first Employee Network Road Shows! On Tuesday we were hosted by The City of Henderson at their convention center. It's a very nice facility and their employees were great to us. We had a lot of fun as they all seemed to be in good humor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Wednesday, we were hosted by Southwest Gas. Another outstanding day! We saw so many people that most of the day you could not see from one end of the room to the other. Talk about nice people, we really appreciated the warm welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday we visited with the employees of US Airways. Again employees filed in to greet us. They came from every part of the airport and were just so nice to us. We met a lot of character's that made me laugh most of the day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are really looking forward to our Fall Road Shows back in Nevada for an encore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;View photos from the Events&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7teaFjwPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/yGvXLotjZ7c/s1600-h/Vegas+09316.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7teaFjwPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/yGvXLotjZ7c/s320/Vegas+09316.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7teRn6UjI/AAAAAAAAAAc/qDXx8wJYNwk/s1600-h/Vegas+09317.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7teRn6UjI/AAAAAAAAAAc/qDXx8wJYNwk/s320/Vegas+09317.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7temOVvmI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LESU0ZMc4ZU/s1600-h/Vegas+09318.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7temOVvmI/AAAAAAAAAAk/LESU0ZMc4ZU/s320/Vegas+09318.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7te6V0i5I/AAAAAAAAAAs/lUzc2opmmxE/s1600-h/Vegas+09319.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7te6V0i5I/AAAAAAAAAAs/lUzc2opmmxE/s320/Vegas+09319.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/966482501279864057-2854270787307664342?l=employeenetwork.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/feeds/2854270787307664342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/it-was-awesome-week-in-nevada-for-our.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2854270787307664342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/966482501279864057/posts/default/2854270787307664342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://employeenetwork.blogspot.com/2009/05/it-was-awesome-week-in-nevada-for-our.html' title='Nevada Road Shows'/><author><name>Employee Network</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07830015300638288637</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='29' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/SkpN7ZzvUZI/AAAAAAAAADQ/UajdPJ1OcXI/S220/SteveKogan.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JAbUhrf-MSc/Si7teaFjwPI/AAAAAAAAAAU/yGvXLotjZ7c/s72-c/Vegas+09316.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
