A very nice co-worker gift

It's from the movie castaway when the main character gets stranded on an island, he finds a volleyball and paints the hand/face on it and calls it Wilson ( the company who made the volleyball) and he talks to it, and makes friends with it so he won't be lonely while he slowly goes mentally insane.

I feel like it would be fun, I just wouldn't call it vacation.

I would do it in a heartbeat, and consider it a vacation. Sounds like a blast!