January 4, 2013

We have had such a fun weekend! The company I work for, ISRCapital, had a company retreat in McCall and it was filled with excitement! Isn't it just beautiful? There is no way I can choose only one picture to post a day.

 The townhouses we stayed in were amazing. Each has 2 master bedrooms, 1 room with 2 full beds and a tv room with a hide-a-bed couch. We were lucky enough to get into a house that had only one other couple in it, so we enjoyed the master bed and bathroom all weekend!

On Friday night, we met at Ponderosa Park and snowshoed into Blue Moon Yurt. It was a pretty tame snowshoeing experience (thankfully) but it still took about an hour to get there. The hardest part is that when I got walking up those hills, my whole body started burning up, so Kyle had to help me take multiple layers off along the way. It's way easier to snowshoe without all the layers anyways :) We set off around 6, so it was dark by then, so the trail is lit by little torches along the way. So fun!

When we got to the Yurt, it was so warm and toasty! We got all our layers off and after hot apple cider and mingling, we enjoyed a 5 course dinner! Appetizers, shrimp something, salad, cornish game hen and then dessert. The food is all cooked in dutch ovens at the yurt, which is only accessible through snowshoeing or cross-country skiing. The poor lady who runs the place has a sled hooked to her backpack and they hike everything in every day!

Remember when I said the worst part was taking off the layers? I take it back. Imagine eating a 5 course dinner and then snowshoeing an hour back to the cars...that was the worst part. But in the end, I definitely think it was all worth it. It was such a cool thing...and likely the only time that we will ever snowshoe...again.