Team Mona Lisa

By the time Friday rolled around I'd had about as much of the return as I was willing to take so it was a good thing that, other than tying up a few loose ends in the morning, the return was pretty much ready to be submitted to my boss for review. I submitted it around 9:30am, and sent him an email saying it was ready, he mentioned he'd be reviewing it on the weekend and will get back to me on Monday with his comments and any additional issues. Yay!

With that out of the way it was time to turn my attention to our floor group activity taking place at 10:30am - we had no idea what was involved but knew that it was going to be based loosely on a "Da Vinci Code" theme. Earlier in the week we were divided into groups and given t-shirts for all our group members, we were given $10 spending money (per group) and told we had to create a group t-shirt - we were also told that at the end of the competition there would be a prize awarded to the group with the best t-shirt. In the beginning we had all sorts of lofty ideas about transfers and logos and whatever else for our t-shirts that is until we realized that our $10 wasn't going to buy much... we actually ended up not spending the $10 and donated it instead to the BMO Fountain of Hope charity organization. :)

Coming up with a name for the group was easy, we'd ended up with 8 group members after a few people opted out of the group... so we decided to go with Team MONA LISA, we typed the letters into MS Word and using wingdings to determine the corresponding symbol we each drew that on to the back of the shirt with a fat-tip black marker. On the front of the shirts we had printed pin-ons of the Mona Lisa with various facial expressions - mine had her with her tongue sticking out, another had her pulling on her ears and making a face - the expressions created lots of giggles. We fastened her to the shirts with some decorative brads from my scrapbooking supplies and we were ready to play - the game itself was tons of fun... we had word searches, riddles, giant sudokus and a game of jeopardy - then it was back to the boardroom to use the letters we won from each of the games to solve the final puzzle. We didn't win the final leg of the puzzle but we did win best t-shirt and I got a $10 GC to spend at FCP.

Turns out they had also ordered lunch for everyone so I had something to eat and then left the office at 2pm to start the weekend. :)