Work Retreat 2013

I too had my Company party, which is a South Texas Retreat. We merged with a company called Higginbotham a couple of years ago. Higginbotham is huge. I believe we are now at 550 employees total from all offices, close to one of the largest insurance agencies. Since we have offices all over now, they put together these little company Retreats, kind of like a fun day and day to get to know other people from other offices, and a bit informative at the same time. There is a North Texas Retreat and a South Texas Retreat. The prior 2 years the South Texas Retreat has been in Port Aransas. They have meeting type of thing in the morning, then lunch then free time.

This year, they moved the location and it was decided to be held in Gruene Tx. How fun! Just a fun little town. We all got to vote what we wanted to do, decided if we were going to ride the charter bus, or even if we wanted to go or had time to go, work load permitting. I am shocked at how many people didn't attend this year, but I thought it sounded like a blast. I have a good group of girlfriends here at work that I really enjoy being around. With them along, I thought for sure it would be a good time.

We also had to choose days, split between Monday and Tuesday for coverage there at the office of course. We all picked Monday. Unfortunately one girl couldn't go and one didn't want to go. The 3 of us left chose Monday and got ready to meet that charter bus at 630am Monday morning at work! thats a first! ha! We loaded up and a couple other fun girls went along and we played games on the way up, tried to sing songs and just had a great time on the 2.5 hour drive. We had a little meeting once we got to the lodge and breakfast. It was fun! nothing to serious, just fun and laughs. They ordered us lunch and then it was free time! We chose to go shopping. Some went tubing down the river, which is a freakin blast!!! but not really what i wanted to do in a short amount of time for a work function, however some did do it! We shopped for awhile and then went to the great Gruene Hall! Had some drinks before the bus came back to pick us up at 4pm. We headed back to the house, got our box dinner and loaded back up on the bus back home.

We had SUCH a blast on the ride back home. Of course, we had all been drinking some, so i'm sure we will a little bit more giggly then on the way up. The entire way home we played that game, Never Have I Ever - we laughed so hard! It was seriously such a good time. I'm so glad that I went and had the best time. Oh and I won a visa gift card in a drawing as well. heck yea!

Until next year...... we will be laughing and reminiscing about this trip for awhile. I say it was a great day to be at work and get paid to have a blast!!