It has been a great start to the week so far. On Monday, I went in to work as usual, and met the two new members of our Mozy L2 team. They both seemed like good guys. I had the opportunity to participate in a phone interview with one of them a few months back, so I was glad to see that he made it on board. After work on Monday, Nate and I were both pretty tired and worn out, so we decided to make it a chill out night back at the hotel. After picking up some cheap spare shoes from the Penny's on our way home, we just went our separate ways for the night. I started to watch the EUFA 2012 game that was on at the bar in our hotel downstairs, but decided to go out and find some snacks and go for a walk instead. It had been raining, but cleared up, and I wanted to seize the opportunity to see a little more of the downtown area of our new hotel at The Clarion. After walking around and checking things out for about 1 1/2 hours, I headed back to the hotel, snacks in hand, and then ordered some pizza for delivery. I was finally able to get a hold of Mandie and set up another FaceTime with Preslie, which made my whole night. It was so good to see her smiling face! She seemed pretty excited to see me on Friday, which of course made me feel good as well.
After talking to Preslie for awhile, I decided to take a bath in the nice big tub in my room. I killed all the lights, and then watched a movie on my laptop and just relaxed in the bath for awhile. I never usually take baths, so it was a nice change. After that I finally went to bed and got a couple hours of sleep before starting all over today.
Today was a big day at work, as we had a bunch of the Executives in town for an All-Hands Meeting, and then the big Sales Kick-Off Event at the Oysterhaven Resort. The day actually went fairly quickly, and then we headed out to Oysterhaven. It was ssssooooo much better than I was expecting! All day long, it had pretty much been raining, and the weather forecast didn't give too much hope. The temperature had basically stayed in the high 50's to low 60's all week so far too, so I expected it would just be a cold, wet, rainy, muddy experience. As we got off work, the clouds started to break, and the sun actually came out a bit. The whole event was basically a big "team-building" event, but was actually a lot more fun than I had expected as well. We had competing teams, and started off with an obstacle course through the forest and the mud. My team ended up having a few of the older Executives on it, so I figured we were going to lose, but alas, we triumphed! We ended up winning nearly every competition and race. By the end we were all completely covered in mud, and moved on to the water sports. After starting off with the "Atlantic Challenge", which was basically us walking out into the Atlantic Ocean in the harbor there, and dunking ourselves, we headed back to get suited up in our wetsuits. It has been a really, really, really long time since I've worn a wetsuit, and forgot about how difficult it is to get into one. Seriously.
Finally, after we had all suited up, we went out to do some water sports in the harbor. We played polo on kayaks, and then we paddled out in these rafts to a dock that was a little ways out, and did the "Moonwalk". This was basically just a 20 foot or so inflatable tube that was tied to the floating dock which you were supposed to run across to the end without falling off. The goal was actually to make it all the way to the other side, and then do a front flip off into the water. After making a couple attempts, we paddled back to get showered and cleaned up, and then enjoyed a nice BBQ and drinks back at the lodge. We finished up and started to head back around 10pm or so, and it was still completely light outside. The sun was just starting to set, and it was still sunny and pretty decent outside. Everyone had a great time, and we all left with a smile on our faces. Unfortunately, as we were in the mud and water the entire time, I wasn't able to take any pictures. We did have some people taking pics throughout the evening, so hopefully I can get my hands on a few of those.
I really do love my job. I have some amazing co-workers too. I have really loved spending the last 2 weeks out here with my extended Mozy family, getting to know each of them, and explore Ireland a little bit. I have never felt so welcome and such amazing and genuine kindness from a new group of people. It seems that the vast majority of the people here are just genuinely kind and happy. I would gladly return any time, and feel like I've made some real friends here as well. Ireland is a beautiful country, full of beautiful people. :)
Now off to bed...
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