The Zappos Merchandising team is working with ZU to put together a Zappos.com Edition of Monopoly. 5000 custom Monopoly boards will be created by Parker Bros. featuring Zappos.com and our Core Values, and will feature properties "sponsored" by many of our top vendors! The proceeds from the property sponsorship and sales of board game set will benifit The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation.

Special thanks to Andy H., Richard Z. and Mark G. for putting this together! We're almost there! More info to follow!

Yesterday was book fair day at Zappos, wherein half of our cafeteria was transformed into a small book shop. It really brought some of us developers back to the days of elementary school where such events were not uncommon. Perhaps this feeling was strongest of all for Shane, who discovered a gem of a book entitled High School Musical : All About Dancing.

Part story book and part instructional dance manual, nobody had seen anything quite like it before. It's true that one can get away with a great many things by saying "It's for my daughter", but I happen to know for a fact that Shane is a man who loves to dance! As soon as the recess bell sounded, Shane grabbed Becky and the two started cutting a rug- with director of development Brent calling out dance moves from the book. I was pretty surprised, but the three of them managed to pull off a pretty good show for not having had any rehearsals!

Incidentally, 10% of Shane's book purchase (and all of the other books sold that day) will be donated to the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation. Thanks to Suchi for the great action shot!

It was a perfect Spring Sunday out at Lake Las Vegas where the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation held a fund raising Easter egg hunt. NCCF provides "comfort and support while empowering and educating families” with children who have a “life threatening or critical illness.”

Zappos had some volunteers at the event to help with event registration, egg distribution, or just answering questions for people. There were hundreds of children just raring to go and I am sure the handful of minutes before each hourly egg hunt must have seemed much longer. There were so many super cute and adorable children you couldn’t help but go “awwwwwww!” every time you turned around.

Here’s a video clip of our volunteer crew doing the stationary bunny hop just before an egg hunt. Yep, people will do most anything if you’re carrying a camera and a clipboard.