StudioGlyphic

They had a raffle for some brilliant prizes, and being the sorta guy I am, I decided to take a shot. Raffle tickets were selling for $25 a piece until you go to the $500 donation level when they went for $20 a piece. At a $1000 level, you get 100 tickets ($10 a ticket). Everyone seemed to be buying $25 tickets, so I thought what the hell, lets make a nice sizable donation.... I bought $2000 worth and got 200 tickets in exchange. Then, I found out that I bought them from the "wrong girl" and that there was a contest going on whereby the girl with the most tickets sold got a prize. So, I ended up buying another $2000 in tickets. $4000 in tickets purchased in all. By my calculations, I had about 1/3 of the tickets in play.

To make a long story short, I won the top two prizes:

Two round trip tickets to Sydney on Qantas in the "sleeper" seats plus 6 nights at the Sydney Harbor Marriott. $25k value.

and...

Two round trip business class tickets to anywhere in Europe courtesy of American Airlines. $18k value.

$43,000 for $4000. Not bad. My girlfriend was extremely happy as well, as you might imagine.