Oreback

Midsummer retreat survived! I didn't get eaten by a black bear or a mountain lion, but had i been attacked i would have stayed big and fought back because that's what the informative black bear and mountain lion pamphlets told me to do. Ah, nature.

It was absolutely beautiful up in the mountains. We went up there to complain at one another about inefficiencies in our program (irony?). The rest of the time, which was a good amount of time, we played touch football, ultimate frisbee, swam, watched Predator starring not one, but two future governors, and ate some delicious and free food!

I'm sure some good things came out of our bickering - including a small scuffle - but more importantly is a story from our football playing. I was on a team with some faster guys who didn't realize that the big boy mustard could roll, so for the most part they were busy playing catch with each other while i played D and made big sacks (you know how we do!). There was one play where i was tossed the ball on a dump because whoever was playing quarterback was getting their skinny as run. Needless to say, i start rumbling down field. Hannah - who is a better athlete than most of the guys, and can throw a spiral like nobody's business - squares up with me in a two-hand touch game, and not even thinking i dropped my shoulder and bowled her ass over without being phased. Had it not been a touch game it would have been the most bad ass play because i could have strolled to the endzone, but as it was i felt really bad. She bounced up and we took a slight bit of a penalty for that move even though i'm not sure what the rules are. I thought you weren't supposed to tackle on defense, but this wasn't me on defense and she didn't tackle me. That became the story of the last couple days. 

Yesterday, we had to do a "trust exercise" and we were blind folded and led through the woods. Guess who my leader was. Just guess. Yep, Hannah. I was so convinced she was gonna run my ass off a cliff or face first into a tree, but she did no such thing and was an excellent leader of cult-looking blindfolded people.