Sunday, September 9, 2012

GCA 20th Family Picnic

I think I have sunburn on my earlobes again.  Starting to sting a bit.

My niece, Ris, and I went down to GCA's 20th Family Picnic at Ypao Beach today.  The food was great!  The games were fun to watch.  Ris and I were hanging out at the main pavilion when we got there.  Ate some food there.  Then we watched this Alaskan dude sweat it out in our humidity as he played his electric violin.  That was awesome.

We walked around after that show.  Saw the face painting being done next to the main pavilion.  Snow Cones, Ice Cream, and colorful cotton candy were an all time kids favorite.  There was a line to the power wheels play area.  They have a nice racing circuit.  We walked by the Hensel Phelps/Granite Tent.  Nice food there.  We saw different companies, whose employees that I've trained, Toltest, DCK, CMS, IAN's, NIPPO, and others that were there.

A lot of my students from my various safety training courses were coming up to me greeting me and shaking my hand.  It was good to see each of them.  I'm glad that many of them are moving up in their respective companies.  We moved towards IAN's Construction.  A close family friend is the safety manager there.  Inas, who his workers call, Chief invited us to eat and drink.  I stood underneath the shadow of the huge tree talking to Inas and some of his workers, who I've trained.  Ris, went to sit down and talk with Liz, Inas's wife.  We're very close to the family.  That's where we parked ourselves for the duration of the picnic.

We watched some volleyball competition set up by GCA between the participating companies.  After more chesaing, drinking beer (Root beer, for me), and shop talk.  We walked over to see the tug-of war competition.  ICC seemed the dominant crew in the competition.  Two more games, then IAN's went up to compete.  I was surprised that they won.  We left soon after.

All in all it was a great day.

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