Holiday fun at DNREC

Let the festivities begin! As an employee with DNREC, I love the fun things we do throughout the year. We have fundraising drives for local charities, and employee appreciation day and Department awards ceremonies, and holiday celebrations! Our IT Help Desk Section received a Team Award this year. There are several different Divisions within DNREC, and I belong to the Office of the Secretary. Every December we celebrate the holidays and our section's employee recognition by attending a luncheon. For the last 3 years, I've played the piano during the event to give it a little more spirit. This year, I asked the committee if I could put together a fun game "know your music". I was lucky to find a co-worker that volunteered to come to my home and pick up the piano. The piano at the Sheraton was $500 to rent for 4 hours? Now, I needed to find a good game show host. Luckily, DNREC is full of fun and creative people. I knew Scott Lynch would be perfect for Dover. Also, I'm going to do this for the New Castle folks for their Holiday luncheon, but with a different host.

Scott (from the Energy Office) is intelligent, fun, creative, and mostly not afraid of going over the top! We'd talked about his recent involvement with our own Parks "Who done it?" in the state owned mansions so I knew he'd play the part well! Since are songs are mainly from the 80s, he decided to enter as Tom Cruise in "Risky Business" wearing shorts, long white socks, and shades....with "Old Time Rock n Roll-Bob Seger" playing as his entrance music. The audience loved it! We also put together facts and hints into a jeopardy-type projected board. The table to pick the question and answer got the points. Categories were: Movies, TV Shows, Beatles, Country, and Disney. Half of the questions, I played a measure of music as the hint. We even got the Secretary, John Hughes to sing M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Everyone had a blast and told us how fun it was. Scott and I look forward to coming up with new categories and questions for next year! We agreed that this is just the beginning of our beautiful creative collaborative friendship!

Next week, I can't wait to see the response of the 40 or more folks up in New Castle! How exciting!