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A bit more detail on the New Zealand thing
May. 7th, 2009 08:41 pmHere's how the New Zealand thing came about:
Every year our church has a big fundraiser for the charities it supports. The fundraiser consists of a nice dinner (fee) plus the opportunity to bid on silent and live auction items. There's a couple at the church who (I think) have a timeshare of a condo in New Zealand. For the last few years, they've put up varying amounts of time at the condo as an auction item. (I actually came much closer than I intended to winning it the first year they put it up - I thought that $XXX was a more than fair deal for a week's stay in New Zealand, even though the sheer dollar amount was getting a little high as dollar amounts go. Happily, someone outbid me.) This year, they were offering 3-4 nights' stay as a silent auction item, with a minimum bid amount listed. Just for a lark, I put my name down with that minimum bid amount (an amount that would be a clear steal for a few nights' stay at a lot of places around here, anyway). I figured that either someone would outbid me, which was fine by me, or... they wouldn't. Even if we didn't end up going if I *did* win, it would a fun way to give a donation of that amount to the church charities.
Anyway. I won the bid. Huz thinks it's a neat idea; I figure we'd stay at this place for however many nights we negotiate with the owners, then find a hotel to fill out a week - if you're going to travel that far for a vacation, you might as well make a reasonable stay of it! I have not yet contacted the owners to find out things like where in the country it is, when it could be available to us, etc. Once that's determined, I'll start looking at plane tickets.
New Zealand.
Wow!
Every year our church has a big fundraiser for the charities it supports. The fundraiser consists of a nice dinner (fee) plus the opportunity to bid on silent and live auction items. There's a couple at the church who (I think) have a timeshare of a condo in New Zealand. For the last few years, they've put up varying amounts of time at the condo as an auction item. (I actually came much closer than I intended to winning it the first year they put it up - I thought that $XXX was a more than fair deal for a week's stay in New Zealand, even though the sheer dollar amount was getting a little high as dollar amounts go. Happily, someone outbid me.) This year, they were offering 3-4 nights' stay as a silent auction item, with a minimum bid amount listed. Just for a lark, I put my name down with that minimum bid amount (an amount that would be a clear steal for a few nights' stay at a lot of places around here, anyway). I figured that either someone would outbid me, which was fine by me, or... they wouldn't. Even if we didn't end up going if I *did* win, it would a fun way to give a donation of that amount to the church charities.
Anyway. I won the bid. Huz thinks it's a neat idea; I figure we'd stay at this place for however many nights we negotiate with the owners, then find a hotel to fill out a week - if you're going to travel that far for a vacation, you might as well make a reasonable stay of it! I have not yet contacted the owners to find out things like where in the country it is, when it could be available to us, etc. Once that's determined, I'll start looking at plane tickets.
New Zealand.
Wow!
