This past weekend I went on a business trip. I never thought that I would be saying those words. I am all about traveling but usually I have to foot the bill. Well once a year the Association for Challenge Course Technology (ACCT) conference allows me to go on a official business trip.
One great thing about the ACCT conference is that every year they choose a different city to “host” the conference. Last year it was Denver. This year they chose a city that is known for its baked beans and tea parties and the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
Naturally I am not one to shy away from taking advantage of this type of situation. Although it was important that I focus on soaking in new experiential learning games, initiatives, tools and other activities in countless workshops; I also found it important to leave having experienced a little of the Boston culture.
Some of that included seeing the burial sights of some of our founding fathers and some of our founding fathers’ fathers. But the grand finale on the last night in Boston had to be a step up from church yards and historic sites. So Lynette (my roommate from college who is also in the experiential learning bizz), Leslie (one of Lynette’s students) and I walked about two blocks from our hotel in Boston’s theatre district and saw the Blue Man Group…A show that managed to weird me out and amaze me all at the same time.
A few other highlights from my business trip:
#6. Playing Knee tag with 50 adults
#5. Finding even more things to do with a deck of cards
#4. Eating at California Pizza Kitchen
#3. Staying in a hotel that had an old fashion mail chute.
#2. Lynette and I getting second place in the ACCT euchre tournament. Which, by the way, was a vast improvement from last year were Lynette and I taught another team how to play and wound up loosing to them thus being eliminated from the tournament.
#1. Watching Lynette walk right into a parking meter. It was one of those instances that looked like it was in slow motion but it by far was one of the funniest things I have ever seen! (Love ya Lynette!) And she walked away unharmed.
