🎡 Share Your Favorite Experience | Badge of the Month | November 2020

Night diving with giant manta rays off the Kona coast in Hawaii, feeling the force of their "wings" as the swam past you blowing you off your spot on the sea floor.

Cote is amazingly good!

Hello everyone!
What a good topic this month :)
I think that my dream experience is to visit New York during christmas season, I have not been in this city, but I would really love doing it. Definitely it is on my "To visit" list, next to Barcelona . LaurenK you made me hungry with your post!!!
I think the most memorable experiences I've had are trips.
Experience 1: My last vacation was on San Andrés Island, here in Colombia. It was a trip in which I relaxed a lot and swam with the fishes in the sea, I went with my boyfriend and some friends, we had an incredible time. I really recommend you visiting this amazing island 🤩
Experience 2: Another excellent experience I had was when I went to Miami with Ricardo, a colleague from work. We went for a Bootcamp, and going out of your country because of job is a great thing, beyond that learning we had time to enjoy the beach and we even went to Orlando for the weekend, we visited Universal Studios Park and we had an incredible time in the world of Harry Potter, I had only gone once in 2010, so I did not remember a lot.
I remember that we had delicious dishes at Bubba Gump's restaurant, I love shrimp so I enjoyed a lot that food.
Experience 3: At work I have had great experiences with my team, my boss always tries to do differente activities, for example last year on december we went to "Escape rooms" It is a room(a place with a lot of rooms actually), in which they lock you up with your team and there are many clues to solve and find the way out.
Experience 4: This quarantine we had an online embroidery class with my boss(She is super expert at embroidery), a kit arrived to the house of each team member, it was a box with all the materials and super nice messages with fun facts from each team member.
Also in the past, we have gone out to eat, to dance, to party and it is a lot of fun.
Experience 5: When my team(Ana and Ricardo) and I won tickets for the X4 Summit of this year, we were soooooooooo happy and I also got an amazing Community watter bottle (which I use everyday) some cool tshirts and stuff like that, this was a WOW moment for me, because I live in Colombia, so far away from Utah and getting this kind of gifts, openning them, seeing them its amazing!! Everytime I get some gift, or some giftcard I got really happy because distance is never a problem for being part of this Community.
If I were a Qualtrics Employee, I would spend my bonus in traveling, like a road trip maybe to Guatape (Colombia) because is really close to Medellin(where I live), or I would spend it in some great dinner with my family and my boyfriend, there is a lot of good places here in Medellin, so choosing between all of them would be "the problem"

Thanks for reading me and sharing your experiences!!

What a great question. If I had an experience bonus, I would use it to take my family on the trip of a lifetime, most likely a grand European tour.
But when I think about experiences I've had that I wouldn't trade for anything, it would be when my kids and I were present for a baseball no-hitter, a rare event in any case and rarer still to see in person. This was for the Washington Nationals' single-A (minor league) affiliate in Woodbridge, VA. The team has moved to Fredericksburg and COVID is keeping all of us physically separated, so it represents a specific place and time that the world has moved on from. But the energy that night, the joy among the fans who were so aware and happy about what was going on, and sharing that experience with my kids, was absolutely unforgettable.

We have a small dining table meant to seat 4, but we are a family of 5 (myself, boyfriend and his 3 kids). We've neglected the dining room in our spending on home improvements. But with a stipend for an experience, I would put it toward a larger dining table that the kids could help us pick out so we all feel like we belong and no one has to sit on a folding chair that's a little too short for the table.

Having an Experience Bonus would be a great opportunity to take my family on a trip outside of the U.S. where we didn't have to worry about stretching our budget and having to say no to things that would be on our wish list of things to see/do well we were traveling. So many of our vacations, we travel to a place that either my husband or I had visited previously so it would be fun to have a new experience as a family.

We went swimming with otters at the Nurtured by Nature nonprofit outside of San Diego. It required a $400 donation per person, which I think has gone up since. But it was so, SO worth it. Not only did we swim with otters, which was on my bucket list, but we got to interact with many other animals as well, including armadillos, sloths, kangaroos, porcupines, and lemurs (such cute little hands!!!). We were smiling the whole day, and the positive feelings lasted for many days afterward. It really made us realize how much experiences like this can impact you in a deep way...it's not just about getting good pictures!