{"id":363,"date":"2006-10-21T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=363"},"modified":"2006-10-21T11:35:49","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T17:35:49","slug":"pack-the-sunscreen-were-going-to-cancun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Pack the sunscreen, we&#8217;re going to Cancun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I won a trip to Cancun!<br \/>\n            I KNOW!<br \/>\n I can hardly believe it!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodj.com\/pages\/cancun\/\">KODJ is doing a contest<\/a> where you have to guess the correct room number between 1 and 1000.  I have been trying to get through 3 times a day, and writing down the incorrect guesses when I hear them.  So, at 5:00 on Friday, there I am, dialing away (like usual), and it starts ringing.  Rockin&#8217; Rob answers and says &#8220;Hi, how are you?&#8221; and I&#8217;m thinking, Could I be the right caller?  Wow!  Because I&#8217;ve been calling for a week and a half and never gotten to guess.  He asked if I had a guess ready, and I said, &#8220;Well, I didn&#8217;t hear the 2:00 guess, can you fill me in?&#8221;  and he actually did!  I knew it was around 435-455, from the previous guesses who had narrowed it down, so when he said the 2:00 guess was 442&#8211;too high.  So, I told him my guess was 440.  This was all off the air.  I told my kids to listen, because mom was going to try to win something (nothing new there), and then he comes back on with &#8220;I&#8217;ve got Paige from Highland here, and she&#8217;s ready to guess.&#8221;  So, I guess room 440 and he starts messing with me, with &#8220;Are you sure?  That&#8217;s really the room you are picking?&#8221;  So, yes, I stuck with 440, then he &#8220;knocks&#8221; on room 440 and instead of the crickets chirping or an elephant or whatever their other wrong guess sounders are, the party music starts to play, and he says, &#8220;Paige, you are going to Cancun!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After all the excitement and information getting, I asked if he could tell me some details, and he said he didn&#8217;t really know the whole story, but all the winners are going as a group, and he thought it was the first week in December.  Well, the 1st week in December is about the only time I could absolutely NOT go, since the Bells on Temple Square Concert is December 8th, and I CAN NOT miss it.  So, all night I keep thinking &#8220;what ifs&#8221; and could someone else take the trip instead of me, blah, blah, blah (I&#8217;m such a worrier!).  So, today I checked the KODJ website to see if there was specific information, and found out that it&#8217;s the 16-23 of December.  I will have to miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lds.org\/events\/calendar\/display\/0,8333,100013--1920013,00.html?date=Fri+Dec+15+2006&#038;monthIndex=12\">Tabernacle Choir Christmas concerts<\/a>, which are the 14-16 of December, but since we haven&#8217;t started rehearsing that music yet, I&#8217;m hoping that it won&#8217;t be a huge pain to get a sub to ring for those concerts.  I&#8217;m bummed that I will miss it, because it&#8217;s an absolutely amazing experience, but how can I turn down a FREE trip to Cancun?<\/p>\n<p>Now the work starts.  I&#8217;ll have to figure out childcare for my 5 children, get EVERYTHING Christmas related done early, figure out how many Christmas concerts, parties and other events I will be missing and how will I get my children there, and other things that the job of Mom requires.  If any of you would like to take a day to watch my kids, go ahead and sign up now, as I&#8217;m looking for volunteers.  Thankfully I have my parents and Ryan&#8217;s parents who are close, and we will *I hope, I hope* be able to work that all out.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my gosh, I also need to lose 10-15 pounds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I won a trip to Cancun! I KNOW! I can hardly believe it! KODJ is doing a contest where you have to guess the correct room number between 1 and 1000. I have been trying to get through 3 times a day, and writing down the incorrect guesses when I hear them. 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