On Wednesday after work I headed out to a group blind date, movie night in the park. Only after hanging around a while and wondering why no one had messaged the group with meet-up instructions, did I deduce that I’d gotten the week wrong. Whoops. Snapped this nice pic of a dead tree though.

While I was just hanging around admiring the scenery I got a call from a friend in need of a lift from her work place, she’d missed the last bus out of there. Since I was at that park, it was only a 12 minute drive out, much shorter than it’d be if I were still at my apartment. So there’s that.

The big thing of the week is something I feel kinda weird writing about, just because of how over-the-top it seemed. The Cloud Security team, consisting of about 50+ people, spent Thursday and Friday at the Suncadia resort, this area with hundreds of acres about 2 hours east of us, with golf courses, ranches, houses, swimming pools, lakes, rivers, etcetera. It just gave off this vibe of oozing with money.

They loaded us all on a bus on Thursday morning, and we arrived around lunch time. After that they arranged for us to participate in a group scavenger hunt, and our team did.. okay at it. Things like riddle solving, ferrying a golf ball down a huge flight of stairs using nothing but segments of pipe, hopping on a canoe to try and locate an arrow hidden along some segment of the shore, an egg drop, etcetera. Thankfully our team never made it to the impromptu rap segment.

After that it was just chillax time, we did some lawn games, some people went on a run. That evening there was an hour long reception, followed by dinner, followed by s’mores, followed by card games late into the evening. Got some people hooked on Resistance, which we played till 2:30am.

The next morning after breakfast there were different individual activities; I opted for archery, which was pretty fun. Next was lunch, then just chilling till 2, then a bus ride which dropped us back at work at 4pm.

Once we got back I stuck around and did some work, which was a good thing since I discovered a bug that came close to delaying our team by a good chunk of time. I’ll give more details on the phone some time.

Saturday I went on a date to see Despicable Me 3, a movie that really did not need to be made. Ate lunch at this chain called Mod Pizza, amazing stuff, y’all will have to try some when you’re up here.

That afternoon I met up with some friends at a beach to have a BBQ. I got introduced to the amazing amazing world of, drumroll please, lime on watermelon. It’s incredible, changed my life. Lime on peach is also good.

We left from there to play card games at a friend’s house, and ended up leaving around 2am. Good times.

Today was pretty good at church, took a walk in the woods afterwards since the weather’s so nice.

And that’s all for me, have a great break!