A very Gruden Christmas

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After the coldest and most miserable start to summer in recent memory; the gods smiled on the Friday of the Gruden Christmas Party with a nice warm sunny day to put everyone in a festive mood for a great day ahead.

It was “keyboards down” at midday as the party began with the first order of the day being the decorations.

In keeping with our successful Adobe event theme the office was divided into 6*Pods with each section responsible for decorating its own part of the floor. Prizes were up for grabs and the teams put in a great effort with themes ranging from a full on Snowy Christmas Scene complete with snow ballooons and snowmen, to a Bad Santa stall,*“The Vault” where all the money was locked away,*Aussie Christmas with remote control floating shark, Traditional Christmas*and from the sales team – “The Stolen Christmas” or*should we say “Borrowed Christmas” in which they “borrowed” the*Christmas tree from the lobby downstairs and asked each of the floors on the way up to help out with the*decorations.

The competition was fierce and Brent’s team took out the gong for their impressive sleigh*scene and won a lovely Christmas hamper for their efforts.



It was then into the main boardroom for Kris Kringles with the usual funny gifts and Brent hosting which is always a laugh. Stephen was asked to play Santa to hand out the gifts however he politely declined. (wise move with Brent hosting)

Then it was time to move on to the serious stuff at our ready made cocktail arena.



Mondo*Bartenders put on a fine exhibition of cocktail mixing and then it was up to each team to discuss and create their own cocktail with prizes up for grabs again.



After some notable successes and some miserable failures Brent’s team came up with the “OH YES”* and took top honours yet AGAIN !!








After enjoying quite a few of their own and other teams cocktail creations it was time for everyone to move onto Strike Bowling Alley in Darling Harbour where a great night was had knocking down some pins and singing Karaoke — when anyone could get the mic off Todd

The rest as they say is history; partly because no one can remember past Strike and partly because certain things should remain censored in this family friendly blog space.

Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas party and all the best in the New Year.

Team Gruden.

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