Team Retreating

Retreating as in, "bonding time". Not as in, "we're giving up the battle". 

This past weekend I had the pleasure of spending several days with Team Serbia on a beautiful mountain. We traveled a long hard road to get there, but we made it. After almost five hours of being somewhat lost in rural southern Serbia, we were all a little woozy and cranky...especially Wilson. I think Team Belgrade managed quite a bit of bonding before we even made it to Kopaonik. I'll never forget getting directions from an old man on a tractor and then the look on his face when we managed to get lost again and had him catch back up to us. That's neither here nor there. What matters is that we all got to spend time together, planning and encouraging each other and eating twice our weight at every meal. Here are some photos from the time on the mountainside.

Hotel Junior

Looking down towards the entire line of ski resorts that sat along this road.

I had to add this photo because this seating area at the forefront of the picture became our hangout. There was always somebody from our team sitting here. We ate ice cream bars here, played board games, were beaten by Josh in all the games, watched Mike get sad that he was losing and leave, we peopled watched the middle schoolers dressed up for the disco club, and I spent the last night watching a Meg Ryan love story and listening to the Serbian men giggle through out it.

Some of the children/some of the Belgrade childrens.

The dining room where we ate breakfast and dinner. It was freezing and they only turned the heat on when Wilson came in, because everybody is soooo worried about the baby.

The downstairs Disco Club. You haven't lived till you've seen middle schoolers in short, tight, sparkly clothes attempting to navigate a stair case in stiletto heels a few sizes too big. It was distressing.

We did have a few quirks, like the Serbian Sinatra that sang the first two nights till 2 or 3 am. It snowed too, but it didn't stick. The kids were so disappointed. I was cold enough, since they turned the heat off in the middle of the night, so I wasn't too upset. We'll get snow soon enough...at least I keep getting told that.

So it was a few days of great fellowship with teammates and other Company people who came to spend quality time with us. We even managed to Skype Kyle in because it just isn't Serbia without him. We're getting back together for Thanksgiving, so be prepared for more photos of the entire crew...I'll be better about the picture thing then.