Company Picnic

So, yesterday was the Microsoft company picnic. On Friday night, we had a little 'freak out' because Mike realized that the registration hadn't gone through correctly. We were really disappointed, thinking that we wouldn't be able to go. Last year it was a summer highlight. In the morning, we devised a backup plan, and decided to go ahead and see if we could get into the picnic. We prayed that it would work out, and that we wouldn't have disappointed kids (and parents) to deal with. God answered our prayers at the customer service table when Mike explained what happened... they scanned his badge... and said "Have fun!"

There were bounce houses, rock climbing wall, many inflatable slides, mini-ferris wheel, mini-golf, pony rides, games, motorcycle jumping... etc. All in the beautiful setting beside Mt. Si in North Bend, WA.  Julia and Gabe took a shot at the rock wall.  Julia got almost to the top, and Gabe didn't want to go up very far.

A few funny things were said:

- As Josh was eating his 5th ice cream bar of the day, the band was playing loudly nearby.  He looked up and said "This song rocks!"

- As Mike was consuming some pretty awesome ribs, his jaw dropped in utter disbelief and he said, "What the ...?  That guy is wearing a Google shirt!"  A guy standing nearby noticed it too, and came over to comment to Mike on it.  Being a Microsoft party, apparently that's pretty gutsy.  (What? Oh... blogger is Google?  Well, I'll just keep being a traitor on my Mac and Blogger.)

- About halfway home, Josh was contemplating the success of the day, and said, "I hardly got to go on the alligator one!"  My response was, "You can live the rest of the year in regret and try again next year."

That's about it!  The highlight for Mike and I was, of course, that (a.) everything is free, and (b.) that there are many food choices!