Back it up... to the Retreat

Last Saturday the Kenya (2 Mollys, 2 Katie's, 1 Sam, 1 Nicole, and 1 Elise) and Poland ( Team Jo) Mi2 teams met and went on a retreat to... actually none of us know for sure, but it was a lil' bit of TN/GA/NC all mixed together. After we got to the first cabin we unpacked the van then put everything back in the it because we realized that this cabin was at the beginning of the road and not the end, where we were supposed to be :). After we unpacked for real our first team building experience took place at the always amazing Food Lion, which again we're not really sure what state that was in. The Food Lion was also where we met Manager Jack, the ex-sniper who loves to talk about how being a store manager pays better than being a sniper & what state everything is in. Food Lion wouldn't have been the same without him. The next couple days were filled with legistics and other necessary directives things, like white water rafting and funyaking ;). The first day of rafting was in Ducktown,TN where the 1996 Olympic Rafting was held. It was awesome and body numbing cold... lol... the second day was colder, but we all stayed nice and toasty in our full body wetsuits, rubbers boots and splash jackets (Yes, there will be pictures to come). I really don't know what we would have done without all that gear though, besides shiver intensely since the warmest the water got was 45F. The rafting went well minus that time that I steered one of the Mollys and I into a tree, that was right after I told her I had done this in Canada and she should trust me... lol... and we had another slight mishap @ the end our journey. We got a little to excited about our success with the 2nd to last rapid that we totally wiped on the last rapid. All you could see of Molly as we went down were her legs sticking verically in the air... lol again pictures to come... All that to say we had a great, safe retreat and the Mi2 2011 group is amazing. It's gonna be a good summer...