Well, we have a sad update to our rantings about a potential Israel Trip. At 8:00 this morning, Dr. Michael Easley and a couple of Moody hosts came on the air live in Chicago to announce the winner of the Imagine Israel Grand Prize. It was surreal. Rich and I sat in our living room, listening to them announce each name who was in the drawing and where they were from. There were only ten names including us.
I think that is the closest we will ever be to winning something that huge. Our odds were pretty darn good for it being a National drawing. But, a man from Washington State won the drawing, and Rich and I looked at each other in disappointment. We are happy for him, since we would have been so, so happy if we’d won. He must be totally stoked (a word I actually used to say while living in Southern California). The word excited just doesn’t capture what we would have been feeling if we’d won a $7,000 trip to Israel. Once in a lifetime.
And so, while we will continue to enter this contest each year in hopes of going to Israel for free, we may never get as close as we did this year.
I guess it’s time to bust out the 4 DVD set that we won - a Virtual Tour of Israel - since that’s as close as we’ll be for now.
Awww man, that stinks guys! Better luck next time!