San Juan Islands Vacation Video Contest – see 'em here!
Posted November 17, 2009 at 2:48 am by Ian Byington
And the winners are...
Darren & Lisa O’Brien put together a great contest & got some great results – here’s more from Darren:
Hi Ian –
We have two winners in the first annual San Juan Islands Vacation Video Contest! The contest, which closed at midnight on October 31, garnered 52 approved entries (out of more than 60 submitted), and in just four months totaled nearly 13,000 video views on YouTube alone.
The Grand Prize – lodging, dinner, and activities worth an approximate retail value of $5,367 – was won by Kristin Marciochi, a 27 year-old teacher from Olympia, WA for her video entitled “San Juans Trip.”
Kristin said, “When I first read that I won, I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t even catch my breath!” With her husband Nate, the couple spent “three wonderful days up there and we had a ball. We had a great, great time!” She also added that as a teacher they don’t necessarily have the means to vacation whenever they want to, but now that they’ve won, “we are so excited knowing we have some mini-getaways we can use this winter in the islands!”
First Prize, a $1,000 Family Camp Weekend at Canoe Island French Camp, went to the Wheelers of Orlando, FL. “We are very, very happy!” exclaimed Grant Wheeler, dad and editor. They really wanted to win so they could come back. He said, “We were going online everyday to see who won.”
Lisa O’Brien, of sanjuanislandsTV.com was one of the judges, and she said the Wheelers definitely had the “cuteness factor” going for them. They had 5-year old Lexis do the voice over, and she was just so cute! As the Wheelers were visiting during the Fourth of July, they became intrigued with the Pig War Crisis. As a result, they reworked the lyrics to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.” Watching the video, and hearing little Lexis sing “we didn’t start the Pig War” over and over will make just about anyone chuckle.
The Grand Prize winning entry is currently the featured video on our home page at http://www.sanjuanislandstv.com. Here you can see it:
Next to that is a link to the First Prize video, the “San Juan Islands Wheeler Family Vacation Entry.” Thanks! Darren
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