I worked over 40 hours last week, went to a work retreat over the weekend, and will be pushing 40 hours this week. I was working on a grant proposal. (If this is any indication how life will be when I go back to full-time next month... the blog entries may be father and fewer between, sad to say.) I start my full-time work middle of October.
My company retreat was in the mountains of North Georgia. I worked all day Friday. Todd & Mercer joined me Friday evening and we stayed all weekend at the Cloudland Canyon (a Ga State park) in the upper-most corner of the state. http://www.gastateparks.org/net/content/page.aspx?s=139843.0.1.5
It's a really nice place. The park is split into two sections by the canyon which slices down the middle. The retreat and the activities were on one side of the canyon. Our cottage was on the other side. As it turns out, our cottage was steps off of the the West Rim Trail. A short stroll down the trail, would take you to an overlook. This first shot is from "our" overlook. One of our days there, a group of us went for a hike starting at the other side of the park - down into the canyon. There are small waterfalls along the way. 
The first one had a platform where some of the girls and their parents stopped to have a picnic. Here's a shot of Todd & Mercer with the tiny waterfall trickling in the back. To see the other waterfall, you had to cross a long bridge, then head down a series of steps to go below and see. 
We hung out there for awhile, then began the LONG ascent back to the top of the canyon. From the platform at the first waterfall, we counted over 530 steps up. There were definitely over 600 steps (if not more than 700?) from the bottom of the 2nd waterfall. Todd carried Mercer up-and-up-and-up-and-up the equivalent of a 30 story building+/- !!
The first one had a platform where some of the girls and their parents stopped to have a picnic. Here's a shot of Todd & Mercer with the tiny waterfall trickling in the back. To see the other waterfall, you had to cross a long bridge, then head down a series of steps to go below and see. 
We hung out there for awhile, then began the LONG ascent back to the top of the canyon. From the platform at the first waterfall, we counted over 530 steps up. There were definitely over 600 steps (if not more than 700?) from the bottom of the 2nd waterfall. Todd carried Mercer up-and-up-and-up-and-up the equivalent of a 30 story building+/- !!
All of that hiking apparently wore Mercer out, as he fell asleep as we were approaching the top (the rim) of the canyon. 
He couldn't even stay awake for a family photo at the top!
We shared a cottage with one of my co-workers who has two daughters. Here, they were singing the "Monster Mash" while Mercer was dancing. (Kinda funny that Todd caught him in this pose!) Out of all of the kids on the retreat, Mercer was the youngest... and he was the only boy. (6 girls between 3 and 7). Needless to say, they loved him, and he really enjoyed himself! We enjoyed ourselves too.
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