nice little friday

last friday was the GH offsite, or basically a summer outing/staff retreat rolled into one for all 70 of us. we took over a posh santa monica hotel, right on the water (and yes, i was on the planning committee for this as well...like i didn't have enough to do last week!).

we did a team building training session with the groundlings, a comedy troupe here in LA where a bunch of SNL actors including will ferrell got their start. let's just say i won't be turning up on who's line is it anyway in the near future -- improv's not really my thing. or maybe i'm just too shy.

anyway, after a delicious lunch, we set everyone loose on a digital scavenger hunt throughout the area -- santa monica pier and 3rd street promenade included. since i was a judge of the event i couldn't participate, but i walked down to the pier with a few other girls and we had a grand time. not a horrible way to spend a friday, now is it?

the bonus question on the scavenger hunt was an extra 100 points for any celebrity you saw. we seriously doubted anyone would get that, but we actually had three valid celebs! one group saw kevin connelly from entourage, another group saw virginia madsen from sideways, and a last group saw some random character actor who only merited points because we looked him up on imdb via blackberry. who knew so many famous people hang out at the pier on a friday?

as for me, i got to see these awesome guys:

kinda hard to see cause i took it on my camera phone, but these guys are official sumo wrestlers. they were in town for a big tournament and definitely looked out of place with all the beach bums. good times.