Hot Tubbing and Freeze Hiking

Mikey and I just got back from the Genesis Mountain Trip of the year. It was so wonderful! Besides being in an absolutely beautiful cabin, it was our first Core Team trip as a married couple. The core team had gone to this cabin two years ago, but I wasn't on Core Team then. Mikey talked so much about that trip, and I had been sad to miss it, but too busy with my senior year of high school to go. Last year's cabin trip was pretty eventful too. We went somewhere in NC, rather than to the Gatlinburg area of TN, and we went skiing. It was an awesome trip except I was all stressed out about wanting to get engaged. Mikey and I had a great time, but the whole time I was just DYING to get married! And now, just a year later, we ARE! It felt so great to think about how far we've come since the past year. We got engaged just a week after last year's cabin trip. Four months of being engaged and seven months of marriage followed, culminating in this fantastic experience!! :)

We went hiking, and it SNOWED! It was absolutely gorgeous, and we all had so much fun doing team-building activities (despite how "built" our team already is :D) and walking 2.7 miles to get to an amazing waterfall. The girls also had a great time bonding with girl talk in the hot tub :) Another plus for the trip was that Mikey took over recording videos, so instead of the measly ten minutes I might have gotten, we have almost TWO HOURS of footage...it was so fun having him get involved in recording all of our memories! We had an awesome time, and now, we get to rest all afternoon to prepare for the SUPER BOWL tonight! GO STEELERS!!!!

Here is a video of the team building activity we did while we were on our way up the mountain :)