You Forget It's Summer

You know how you're walking downtown on your lunch hour and you see a family in their shorts and carrying backpacks, pointing at a map? All of a sudden, it occurs to you that it's summer. That just goes to show how caught up we get in work, ugh!


Anyway, I can't complain because the following pictures illustrate where I've been the last three days at an internal conference for our Actuaries. It was a beautiful spot with more than enough to do to keep you busy or plenty of space to relax, whatever your pleasure.





While we were there, we spent 3 hours outside doing something called Geo-caching. This was quite the exercise to develop our team skills through competition. Each team of 10 had 3 hand held GPS devices, one palm pilot and a digital camera all to help us find as many of the 20 "cached" items around the property as we could. It was really fun and interesting to see who stepped up to a leadership role because if someone didn't you couldn't function, let alone win.

And no, we didn't win, in fact we came in last because one of our team members was so heavy and out of shape that she looked like she was a heart attack candidate most of the time. Her face got so red it was almost purple. The hot, stuffy air (there was lightening hitting the ground in the mountains around us) wasn't helping anything. Because she couldn't keep up with the rest of us, we were severely limited in what we were able to do. Nevertheless, we had some successes and we never deserted her or any other team member. It was good to get to know each member of the team. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

This is quite the week considering I have exactly one day left (tomorrow) in the office. Poor me!