The winner of our spirit bear tour giveaway is…

Are you nervous? Excited? On the edge of your seat?

You should be. This is awesome. I’m about to give somebody a trip to the Great Bear Rainforest to see a spirit bear for half price. Wow!

But before I tell you who won, I want to explain how we chose the winner in the name of full transparency.

It was a 16-step process as follows:

Each of you entered your name in a little box on my website and pressed enter, and then…
Your name zipped through a labyrinth of wires and wifi signals and who-knows-what kind of technological wizardry to arrive on my screen.
Using a 3D printer a uniquely shaped piece of solid gold was created with your name embedded into it.
This gold piece was carried on a velvet cushion, by yours truly, to my family’s living room, while my kids watched in wide-eyed wonder (and my wife tapped her foot nervously).
Your chunk of gold was placed in a very particular place among all the other names and pieces.
As the contest entries accumulated so did the gold in my living room until….
They took the shape of a solid gold life-sized spirit bear adorned with all your names. Amazing!
My kids loved it. My wife was not so sure. We started locking our door.
Then, my three-year old son and I invented a randomization machine, which looks exactly like this:
The golden bear was disassembled and each piece was fed into this ingenious contraption that was specifically programmed to randomly select a winner from all the names that were entered into our contest.
And then…and then…AND THEN….the machine broke.
We fixed it.
With the repairs completed, I cued the band. In anticipation I broke out in a nervous sweat and pressed “start” on the machine. The band played faster and faster as the machine churned away. The music reached a frenzied pitch, and just as the last note was played the winning name popped out of the machine.
And it was me.
No, not really. The winner is….