There's No Place Like Home
Yeah, I survived the Staff Retreat! It was an ok two days, but I was more than ready to come home. I think I had just a little too much togetherness. Here are some highlights:
We all were given at least one egg “child” to take care of during the retreat. (I had triplets- good grief!) We had to name them and take them absolutely everywhere we went. Of course, it wasn’t long before there were neglected children and kidnappings. There were ransoms and rewards, and one child met an unfortunate end when she was cooked up by her captors and served to Fr. Bill at dinner. Yes, his children were kidnapped early on. The kidnapper was not who you’d expect at all which totally floored him when it was revealed. He wouldn’t pay the ransom, so his children were never returned. We all knew who had them, so when he showed up this morning with two eggs decorated the same as his kidnapped children we all knew that he was a fraud. I can’t believe that he actually tried to pull that off! Fr. Jerry even paid a bellman to return a child to its parent’s room, so they wouldn’t know that he was involved! The entire hotel was talking about the “egg people”. We were quite a hit. Ya’ know that CTK doesn’t do anything half way or like anyone else, and this was no exception. Our retreat leader said that she had never seen a group take the egg game in the directions that we did. Crazy stuff! My children survived intact. I only left them alone in the room at night when we thought that we’d go dancing. The only flaw in that plan was that Monday nights in Mesquite, Nevada totally suck! There was absolutely nothing to do. There was no music anywhere. Most people proved to be big party animals and ran off to their rooms immediately after dinner. Some of the guys played Pai Gow Poker, but the big winner was Mary. We found her at a machine around 11:30pm and she was on a BIG roll. I kept telling her to cash-out, but she just kept winning and winning! It was amazing! She walked away from the machine a very, very happy woman. All in all, the retreat wasn’t as bad as it could have been; I don’t think I made any new friends, but I didn’t make any new enemies, so that’s a good thing.
We all were given at least one egg “child” to take care of during the retreat. (I had triplets- good grief!) We had to name them and take them absolutely everywhere we went. Of course, it wasn’t long before there were neglected children and kidnappings. There were ransoms and rewards, and one child met an unfortunate end when she was cooked up by her captors and served to Fr. Bill at dinner. Yes, his children were kidnapped early on. The kidnapper was not who you’d expect at all which totally floored him when it was revealed. He wouldn’t pay the ransom, so his children were never returned. We all knew who had them, so when he showed up this morning with two eggs decorated the same as his kidnapped children we all knew that he was a fraud. I can’t believe that he actually tried to pull that off! Fr. Jerry even paid a bellman to return a child to its parent’s room, so they wouldn’t know that he was involved! The entire hotel was talking about the “egg people”. We were quite a hit. Ya’ know that CTK doesn’t do anything half way or like anyone else, and this was no exception. Our retreat leader said that she had never seen a group take the egg game in the directions that we did. Crazy stuff! My children survived intact. I only left them alone in the room at night when we thought that we’d go dancing. The only flaw in that plan was that Monday nights in Mesquite, Nevada totally suck! There was absolutely nothing to do. There was no music anywhere. Most people proved to be big party animals and ran off to their rooms immediately after dinner. Some of the guys played Pai Gow Poker, but the big winner was Mary. We found her at a machine around 11:30pm and she was on a BIG roll. I kept telling her to cash-out, but she just kept winning and winning! It was amazing! She walked away from the machine a very, very happy woman. All in all, the retreat wasn’t as bad as it could have been; I don’t think I made any new friends, but I didn’t make any new enemies, so that’s a good thing.
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