Our journey continues … today was the last full day of the retreat, so we made sure to enjoy all of it. The workout this morning was a little bit lighter (just a run, rather than a full body assault like yesterday) but I was so out of it that I slept in until just a little bit before we took off for breakfast.

After breakfast we had “the amazing race”. We broke into teams – well, when the guys all got there after a quick game of basketball on the mini nets we were informed of the teams – of guys vs. girls. Bob, the dude in charge of the challenge, explained how things worked, then we all took off. The basic idea was to complete tasks for points, and the most points won. There was a sheet with questions relating to Woodloch that needed to be answered, 2 sheets of “doing” tasks (which required pictures as proof of completion), and 3 puzzle sheets. As the guys had 2 camera phones, we split into three groups – 1 for each of the “doing” sheets, then myself and John to work on the puzzle sheets. (The question sheet was done throughout the other tasks). We had 50 minutes to complete the challenge, and complete it we did! Due to a technicality our score was lower than it should have been, but we still came out the victorious team due to the heroic effort of the picture takers, who probably covered the entire lodge area 2-3 times in the 50 minutes. The guys got medals (which we unfortunately don’t have pictures of), then we went and played a bit more bball before lunch.

After lunch we started off with a couple rounds of bumper boats (which was great fun!) then did a bit of hanging out around the pool and lake area. Mark and I took off for home a bit early to work on a slideshow of all the photos we’d taken over the course of the retreat.

After dinner we attempted some more jumping photos (and got an alright one or two) then headed back to house 542 for games night. We had two games – the first one was a blind tasting test game (with lots of sweet stuff), and the second was a game where you went around the group of people with each person describing a situation they’d been in (the more specific the better). If no one else could say they’d been in an identical situation (to the length at which you’d described it), then you would get a point. Otherwise everyone who could say they’d been in that situation would get a point (and you didn’t get any). Both those games were a lot of fun.

Following the games, we watched the Synergema retreat slideshow, then finished off the night with a few of us busting out some serious foosball. And now it’s now and I’m writing this blog post. Well, I guess I’m done for now. Missing all of you (even those not reading) back in the valley, and we hope you’re all miserable and having no fun without us. Well, not really, but we are hoping you’re not having too much fun without us.

Anyway, on to some pictures of the day!

Today was my kind of day, sunshine, pool, loungers, pinacolada’s, a book, my iPod, and great company!!!

It started early, Keith, one of the guys works with is totally into fitness so had a ‘bootcamp’, I opted out, due to the fact that 8a.m. here is 5a.m at home, and this morning was catching up on some lost zzz’s. I definitely was too sad I missed it, when I learned how sore people were today, tomorrow is a light run so we’ll see what comes with that. Phil on the otherhand is hardcore, and was out there, until well… he pushed to hard, and dinner came back to visit…. uhoh! He felt much better for the rest of the day though!!

After this we headed for breakfast, then went and did go-carts, ate lunch… and the afternoon was spent pool side relaxing. It was awesome. The boys decided to venture out and take out kayaks, which they said was awesome, and tomorrow I think more of us will be going too. Phil broke his paddle while in the middle of the lake, and had a slower time getting back, he said it was well worth it though!

This evening, we went out for dinner, did 90′s trivia and went to the horse races, which were quite funny… but too much detail to put in a blog post when it’s past midnight. So, next time you see us we’ll explain better!!!

But until then here are some shots of the day.

So technically today is not over, and technically we are not even to our ‘final destination’ for the day. BUT this blog post is coming early because Phil and I are stuck in the Newark Airport. To many of you this will not come as a surprise, as I have NEVER flown without some sort of delay (from 15mins to overnight), so here we are, our flight delayed about 2 hours. We are hoping that it doesn’t change, but there is a lightning storm going on outside, so fingers crossed we make it out tonight.

Seattle was good. Had dinner, went swimming, and then hit the hay. Getting in to, and through, the airport was a breeze, but we overheard this really cool-sounding guy when we were sitting and eating breakfast. He had a super-deep but at the same time raspy voice; almost the same as Batman’s voice with his bat-suit on (from the new movies). Our 1st flight was smooth sailing – until it was time to land. Then we flew over Newark 80miles and returned coming from a different direction, and now here we are. We are glad to have worn somewhat warm clothing, as the airport is cold, to have books and the laptop to keep us occupied. Phil is trying to get pictures of the lightening, and I’m reading, fooling around online.

Anyway, a few pictures from today!

Phil here, to update you all on the adventures of Day numero twooo. It started off pretty nice and chill – woke up and just hung out with the Andrewman until we had to roll. We got down to the inner harbour and hung out there for a bit – had a little bit to eat and wandered around.

Then we were off to the Port Angeles ferry, where things went a little sideways. We got there at around 1:15 (I thought we had lots of time to spare, but I was quite off) and found out that the 3 o’clock sailing was already full. So, we spun around and bombed off to the Vancouver ferry and just missed the 2pm sailing, but that was alright and we caught the 3. So, even though that had messed with our plans we made the border crossing with decent time (only took about 20 minutes to cross) and busted down to Seattle. Keltie drove from the ferry and she was hauling (crazy speed demon) after we crossed the border so we ended up getting to the hotel just a few minutes later than when we’d originally planned.

All in all a pretty decent day even with the monkey wrench thrown right in the middle of it, though :-]

Now tomorrow will be boring since we’re spending nearly all of it on a plane. Lame-o. (Maybe some cool pictures from in the air, though).

And we’re off! Originally our plan was to leave tomorrow (Thursday) but when chatting with friends of ours, we decided to come to Victoria tonight spend the night with them, and then head to Seattle on Thursday. What a great idea.

We left town about 5p.m. and made it here about 8. When we got here we went for a little walk around their house (they live in Colwood), played dutch blitz, and some rockband (which we haven’t played since we moved into the apartment, so Phil’s pretty happy!).

Here are a couple shots from todays travels: