Top Customer Picks for Valentine’s Day Gifts
I know, I know. The 2011 holidays have just ended. We're all finally getting adjusted to writing 2012 at the end of our dates and most of us have whittled our list of resolutions down to 1 or 2 that we might keep up for another couple of weeks. It almost feels like there might be some time to take a deep breath and relax for a few minutes. Until you look at the calendar and realize that Valentine's Day is less that 4 weeks away!
Lucky for you (and yours), we've got you covered with a roundup of our most popular Valentine's Day Gifts. Whether you're looking for a gift that will give them a memorable experience or something that the two of you can do together, we have something that fits the bill:
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It’s Dad’s Day, that griller’s holiday spent lounging in the backyard slathering ribs with barbeque sauce, sipping beers, soaking up the afternoon sun, unwrapping… Drill bits?
After all the Hawaiian shirts, the printed paisley ties of years past, you’re dreading the moment he opens up those cashmere socks you got him this time, dreading the look on his face that says, Hm. Thanks, sweetie.
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Today we talk with one of our favorite driving experience providers, Jim Switzer, about the company's history, some amazing customer experiences, and what they love the most about their experiences. Among other things, Jim and his company provide some of our incredible exotic car experiences in Las Vegas.
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School’s Out – Graduation Gifts They’ll Love for 2011
You'd be happy, too.
‘Tis the season. As summer picks up steam and the sun arcs high over head, parents across the country will be hosting graduation parties for their new graduates. High-schoolers will inflate balloons in college colors; college graduates will thank the heavens their eighteen-year march through education is finally over, and you will wander into backyards and back patios armed with… Well, what are you armed with?
Gift cards? (Come, now.) Cufflinks? Earrings? (They’ll look beautiful in the drawer.) Checks? (Warmer.)
Here’s the thing: these kids, these young adults, have been slavishly devoted to the classroom for years now. Their entire lives. They’re leaving one building and headed straight into another, with a brief respite over the summer. High school grads will encounter stadium-like lecture halls; college grads will wander into an office cradling a ficus. And I don’t mean to say that there aren’t thrilling elements to both—brand new experiences in their young lives. But both have decidedly structured, committed aspects to them.
So. You could give them a gift card, redeemable for music or books (like they don’t have enough reading as it is). You could give them money (I really can’t argue with that one.) You could get them any number of things which end up in yet another box to be packed, thrown into the U-Haul and carted cross-country to their new location. Or...
Sharing Experience Gifts With Others
Some highly thoughtful, creative acquaintance of yours broke through the tedium of gift-giving, reaching into the clouds to bring you a gift experience from Cloud 9 Living.
You went race car driving at the track or sailing on an old-fashioned whaling ship for a lobster dinner cruise.
You learned how to blow glass in a professional studio or how to roll sushi in your own kitchen.
You had the time of your life and still remember the taste of the champagne on your lips as you celebrated the landing of your first sail in a hot-air balloon. You can’t forget how the earth looked beneath you, like a patchwork quilt scrolling by.
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We all know it’s a great place to live. We boast about the three hundred-plus days of sunshine which, unlike San Diego, get sprinkled over four seasons, not just one. We have the tallest mountains in our backyard, mountains we ski and hike and admire as the sunrise gilds their faces. We have rivers to raft, rapids crashing, two-story boulders swirling up whirlpools and eddies. We have world-class restaurants and the healthiest living. And we have aerial fabric classes.
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Valentine’s Day Without the Cliché
Valentine’s Day.
It starts with handmade, heart-shaped paper notes exchanged (indiscriminately, democratically) in your kindergarten classroom. A few years later there are school socials, maybe something at an ice-skating arena, gaggles of girls gliding along the edge of the rink while the boys, barreling down, skid to a stop with a spray of ice. Maybe it ends in thirteen stitches on your chin, maybe not. Some things are unique to personal experience.
Next, inevitably, you fall out of love with Valentine’s Day. Maybe you even fall out of love with love. You wear black on this “hokey” holiday in protest, and all your married/engaged/unsingle friends shake their heads.
And then, inevitably, you fall in love. And suddenly it’s February and you begin to reconsider this lost holiday,
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