Snowbird with the Army

Josh and I spent the weekend at the Snowbird Resort in Little Cottonwood Canyon! It was an all-expense paid retreat for the Utah National Guard's 142nd Military Intelligence Batallion. We were so excited to get away for a couple days, and to spend time with some great friends. On Friday night, we attended a dinner and talked the night away with some of our close friends. We were actually the LAST table to leave the room, and were kindly asked to "transfer our group to the nice leather couches in the lobby." Ha ha :) At that point, we called it a night and headed back to our rooms.

We had to wake up pretty early on Saturday to begin the scheduled classes (e.g. insurance, financial planning, anger management, sleep deprivation, etc.), and by 11a.m. I was fighting hard to keep my eyes open! Army briefings are NOT exciting! In fact, they don't even attempt to go that direction, and most of them are briefings the guys have already had! So during lunch Josh and I decided to go take a nap for 30 minutes...which turned into an hour! OOPS!! We walked back downstairs and looked for our friends, who were also mysteriously missing from the class. We found them a few minutes later sitting on the stairs talking away! They simply said, "Uhhhh I think we're done." :) That sounded inviting, so we decided to be done also, and we spent the next 3 hours talking and laughing with them. Much better than class!

Saturday night we went to The Steak Pit with 2 other couples, which was fun, but not too yummy. It was still fun making new friends, and getting to know our other friends better.

Sunday was interesting. We had a short devotional by the Chaplain, who emphasized the importance of marriage, of being there for each other. Then we attended a mandatory Suicide Prevention class. Utah is the 10th largest state for Army suicides! The presentation was actually an interactive video, where the instructor would give us a scenario, then give us 2 alternative actions. We would choose one, then the video would resume and play-out our action, showing us the consequences of our choice. We did well on the 1st video, but our guy ended up commiting suicide the 2nd time! And that's how the weekend ended! We killed our guy! Wait...wasn't the class called "Suicide Prevention?" We didn't prevent it! So apparently we didn't learn a darn thing! The instructor didn't even let us know where we went wrong! What a downer, right? Josh and I went to lunch on the way home, and he seemed bothered. I asked, "What's wrong?" His response? "We killed our guy, and we don't know where we went wrong!" :) He was still thinking about it an hour later :)

All in all it was a good weekend. It's always good to get away as a couple, to re-connect! Josh loved seeing and talking to the guys he just spent the entire year with, and I liked getting to know them better. They are great guys! And as always...it was WONDERFUL coming home to Annabelle! I love that little girl :)