Team Building in Seattle

I spent this week in Seattle with everyone on my team for our annual fiscal year offsite kickoff. Some years its been in Chicago or Boston, but this year we had it at Microsoft. There is always some kind of team-building fun event, and this year we went kayaking in the Lake Washington aviary. Its a marshy area around some islands. We were in two and three-person kayaks, and my partner was Diane Curtis. A youngish mom with a little girl that was born a couple of months before Bryson. She lives in Ohio. Diane wanted to be in my kayak because I had a super-soaker and she didn't want to be a target. At one point we rafted up and they asked if anyone wanted to do the "walk-across-the-kayaks" challenge. No one else spoke up so I volunteered. It was no big deal. We saw blue herons, a big beaver lodge, and lots of pretty plants and forests that you can only see from a kayak.