Dolberry Giveaway!

All right, in an attempt to increase blog traffic, the Cheery Vanilla staff have decided to run a promotional giveaway. Free ... to the first responder in the comments section ... a Torino 2006 Playstation 2 game. This game, according to the back of the box, allows one to "experience the chills and thrills of competing in the Olympic Winter Games." It won the prestigious "Poor" rating from the IGN.com reviewers. It currently retails for $6.49 on e-Bay.

APD & I won this as part of an NBC Olympics promotion. During the Torino games, one could play these skiing & bobsled games online. If you finished in the Top 3 of an event on any given day, you won a prize: 3rd place was a NBC Olympics hat, 2nd place was the Torino 2006 game, 1st place was a $100 VISA check card. Since both APD & I have somewhat obsessive personalities, we got pretty good at the game after about 2 weeks of mostly non-stop wasting time on the internet, er, practice. We ended up getting one 2nd place & two third places.

Harder than that was actually claiming the prizes. We got called by the independent verification firm three times to ensure our eligibility for these prizes valued at (approximately) $14.63. They came in the mail today. Picture shown above. The hats are sweet, but alas we do not have a PS2, so not much point in keeping the game.

Someday I hope the time spent on this blog will payoff as grandly ...