Well I had a very fun and lucrative final day of Cataclysm.
Finished most of my dailies and finally got the Hyjal Bear Cub pet, that was the start of my WoW day. Later on some friends on my Horde server invited me to run some old dungeons, and I got the Orb of the Sin'dorei on my rogue, an item I was attempting to get on my rogue since BC. Never did drop for me. So that was something.
That's not the best part of the day though.
At some point a week ago my Blood Elf DK was invited into a max level guild that, once I joined, seemed a bit weird. The guild itself is named after the Guild Master, and the Guild Master put up dozens of different events on the calender. None of them were raiding or PVP, but instead contests, lotteries, events for gold and such. It basically seemed like one big contest guild with hundreds of people.
So I check out the contests and for August 27th, he had planned a hide and seek event in which if you locate him hiding in a zone, he gets you a mount. I thought it would be interesting so I signed up, but then promptly forgot about it. Well the day comes up and Altoholic reminds me of it happening, so I am like "Oh ya, might as well give it a shot". I log on, head to the "start" point, which was Booty Bay, and then just had to find him hiding in Southern STV. I mount up, he starts the contest, I ride out of the town, and...
He is standing right there in the entrance tunnel.
He declares me the winner, waits for two more people to find him for runner-up gold prizes (took them maybe 15 minutes to realize he was just in the tunnel), and then gave me a
Vial of the Sands mount for my victory. A mount that, just to make, requires weeks/months of Archeology and a lot of luck just to get the recipe, and often goes for a minimum of 28k gold on the AH, and that's if the seller wants little in the way of profits. I got it just in time for Account Wide mounts too.
Talk about being lucky. So glad I decided to give it a go. I plan to go back for all the guys events now, even just being a runner-up he gives a few thousand gold.