Cheer in the New Year with the DOLE Rose Parade float and Rose Bowl!

When I was a kid, I remember most of my family’s holiday gatherings centered around football. Our family would eat, visit, laugh, talk, eat more, watch football and even play football in the streets. My parents had ten acres, so all my cousins (mostly boys) and uncles would play football out in the field in front of our house. If we had our holiday dinners at another family member’s house, we’d play football out in the street.

Our holiday tradition also included watching the Rose Parade every New Year’s Day followed by the Rose Bowl in the afternoon. It’s always exciting to learn which college teams will play in the Rose Bowl and which of my friends will attend the game to cheer for their alumni team.

Are you interested in seeing the DOLE^® float in the Rose Parade and one of the biggest football games of the year?

DOLE invites you to enter a fun sweepstakes opportunity to ring in the New Year at the 2014 Rose Parade and Rose Bowl! One lucky DOLE fan and three guests will win a trip to sunny Southern California to experience the magic of DOLE’s spectacular Rose Parade float and Rose Bowl in person.

Enter for a chance to win! The sweepstakes details are listed below:

DOLE is celebrating the New Year with their fourth Rose Parade float, “Sunrise at the Oasis,” and as part of the DOLE excitement, DOLE is giving one lucky DOLE fan a trip for four to cheer on DOLE’s 2014 Rose Parade float and watch the 2014 Rose Bowl. This trip is a dream come true for those who have always wanted to experience Southern California’s iconic New Year’s Day celebration.

Entering is simple! Simply visit DOLE on Facebook or visit DOLE.com and follow the instructions on the sweepstakes entry form between now and December 5, 2013.

The grand prize winner, plus their three guests, will celebrate their victory with a four night trip to Los Angeles – from December 30, 2013 to January 2, 2014 – to see the DOLE float in the 2014 Rose Parade on New Year’s Day in beautiful Pasadena, California. The winner and their guests will also receive four tickets to the 2014 Rose Bowl to watch two of the best college football teams fight to become the 2014 Rose Bowl Champion.

The sweepstakes runs till December 5, 2013. In addition, DOLE will also give sweepstakes entrants the opportunity to win prizes daily in the “Instant Win Trivia Promotion” to those who enter the “Cheer in the New Year” sweepstakes and correctly answer five trivia questions. Winners will be randomly selected daily to win a 2014 DOLE Rose Parade Limited Edition Commemorative Pin, a 2014 DOLE Rose Parade t-shirt or 500 bonus entries into the grand prize sweepstakes. A total of 800 lucky DOLE Facebook fans will take home a prize! (Sweepstakes rules)

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Charmin Calamaris

Charmin is a wife, mom of two boys and creator of the Momiverse. The Momiverse is an online magazine for busy moms (is there any other kind?) dedicated to helping moms make time – and take time – for themselves. She traded in her career in land use planning and environmental policy to become Chief Executive Navigator of the Momiverse. You can connect with Charmin in her "online office" on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook.

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