Bring Your Child to Work Day

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to bring Drew to the office with me for our firm's "Bring Your Children to Work Day." The interesting thing about this is that, even though Drew just turned 9 years old, this is the first time he's had an opportunity to be part of an official "go to work with dad"-type event like this. I guess that's what happens when Dad has been in school for the past 3 years! But I digress...
The day started off with a bus ride into the city, which I think Drew enjoyed. The firm did an amazing job of scheduling out the day and planning a whole variety of activities for all of the kids to take part in. The theme of the day (which came from a larger national organization) was "Building Partnerships to Educate and Empower." Toward this goal, the kids were split up into three different "teams" and were tasked with planning a community service project that would require them to build partnerships. Interestingly enough, two of the three groups chose a service project related to helping animals and/or animal shelters in the community. When they weren't working with their teams to develop the service project, the kids also had some "computer training" time with our awesome IT trainer guy (this was actually just some Internet research on their chosen service project) and some "shadow" time with their parent or guardian. Drew and I also went to lunch in the Columbia tower, which is Seattle's tallest building and features a huge food court with about 15 different places to choose from (Drew chose pizza).

I'm not sure that Drew came away with any greater concept of what it actually is that I do for work, but I know that he had a good time and that's all that really matters, right?