Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Operator Retreat

A couple weeks ago my work threw a retreat.  They ahuled us up in vans to this cute little place in the mountains called Hatch Patch and we spent half the day up there doing team-building activities.

To be honest, I really didn't expect it to be much fun.  I'm not a huge fan of things like that.  BUT, it turned out to be a really great time, and I enjoyed getting to know my fellow operators.

Here are some pictures from the day:

Operator Olympics!
This is my team leader, Arron, running in the Olympic torch in his toga

Making a country flag
Our country name was "Determa," so we were the Determa-nation :)
That's me holding the stick

Our motto:  "Never give up!  Never surrender!"
I drew the stars-- skills!

Presenting our nation and flag

Playing  "hobble-ball";  we got saran-wrapped and then played volleyball
P.S. It was freezing cold- I was wearing shorts!


Hobble-ball

Every nation did skits at the end.  They turned out pretty funny.
Here's my group (we were synchronized swimmers)

Diving in to begin our synchronized performance

I got an award for these awesome balancing skills ;)
 

Arm waves

Awards ceremony
Certificate for Slaughtering Stars (drawing awesome stars on the flag) and Best Balanced (in the skit)

2 comments:

Jane said...

NICE JACKET, ALEXA. I HAVE ONE JUST LIKE IT. EXCEPT I CAN'T FIND IT. ITS AS IF SOMEBODY TOOK IT WHEN THEY WENT BACK TO UTAH. BUT I KNOW YOU WOULD NEVER DO THAT....

Alexa Slaughter said...

Whoever this mysterious Jane is should know that I had it on very good authority that the previous "onwer" of the jacket never wore it and I would use it more in Utah, considering the "owner" had so many jackets already that they weren't fitting into her SECOND closet.

:)