I woke at the crack of dawn to do some morning photography before our first work session began. I drove up the coast a little and believe I was in the vicinity of Kittery Point when I took this photo. Click on it for a larger version.

After a ten hour day of work, Graham (my new boss, singing in the blue shirt) treated the team to candle stick bowling followed by a fine Mexican dinner. It is still a too early to tell, but I think I am going to really enjoy working for this guy. The new team went through trial by fire today and emerged intact.

The same woman, after a costume change, improvising a song in response to the unplanned death of her dog at the hands of one of our group. The further we got off the planned script the more insanely funny the evening became. In the end, my team correctly identified the killer for which we each received a plastic walkie-talkie.

After a long work day we were treated to a dinner/murder mystery. The woman pictured here was one member of a four person cast that interacted with our group to stage the murder.

As an ice breaker we had to create a pictorial response to five questions. (1) recent accomplishment- promotion to division one soccer, (2) personal goal-improve everything I touch, (3) lesson from a mentor-wrestling coach, running with arms up to learn how to mentally block pain, translation to life and business = never give up no matter how tough things get, (4) little known fact-studied ballet, and (5) advice for Avid-better to do three things well rather than four things poorly.

Today is the first day of a 3-day senior management offsite at Wentworth by the Sea. This will be my first opportunity to work with my new boss and newly installed management team.