More Visitors and the video competition

Earle left on Tuesday at nine in the morning and Kris and Kendra (our good friends and business partners) flew in at 9:05.  It was a fun week with them;

The Willes Center that Bo is in puts on two competitions each year.  They give away $21,000 in award money.  The videos were suppose to tell the story of your business.

Kris and Kendra came and spent a few days with us to see what goes on here.  The competition was great. Bo was in charge of coming up with how to judge the videos and get them cut down to eight per category. Thanks to all of those who spent the time to help them choose the top eight. When that was done, the eight videos had to be put together so that they could be watched in the IMAX theatre at the Polynesian Cultural Center.  

Four Judges were flown in to judge the videos and pick the top four in each category:  John Heder, Marco Lui, Zach James, and Ricky Ray Butler.  These guys were all so down to earth and brilliant.  It was awesome to meet them.  

Each judge was assigned to someone in the Willes Center.  Bo got to show Jon Heder (AKA Napoleon Dynomite) around.  He decided to put together a zip line group for anyone who wanted to go.  We spent Wednesday morning at Kualoa Ranch riding the zip lines.  There were seven different zip lines and two rope bridges to cross.  I was SUPER nervous!  It took me three zip lines rides to realize I was having fun.  I hate heights!

There were also two "Indiana Jones" Bridges.  I've always wanted to cross one of those!

That evening we had dinner and the CEO of VIVINT spoke to the students and faculty.  He had some great advice and I took a few things away for my own life.  The one was I need to have a motto for myself.  Still working on that.

Thursday morning we watched the videos at the theatre.  They turned out so awesome.  It was really fun to see the talent they had in puting a video together.  I'll put the links on here when they are up.

That night we had a dinner at Pounders and the PCC with the winners and those others involved.  After dinner they were showing us how to hulu.  The judges got up and showed us their moves.  It was pretty funny!

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Kris and Kendra-Thanks for coming to visit!  We had a great time with you guys!  It's so nice to see familiar faces in a place that is so unfamiliar in every way!