Quickutz Retreat details!!!!

OMG- the whole weekend was just a blast!!! I haven't had so much fun in awhile!!!

I arrived in Salt Lake City around 4pm and immediately spotted Andrea (QK DT coordinator) with a group of girls- we all collected our bags and headed to some vans. I was in the "magnesium" colored van driven by Heather (QK product development)- still not sure what color magnesium is though!!! LOL!!! Heather is an absolute doll!!! She was so friendly and would give us loads of info on the city!

We arrived in the hotel, had a chance to unpack before heading out to dinner. Not all the DT crew had met, so I was totally looking forward to it. We had dinner at the Brick Oven restaurant that was SUPER yummy and got to meet the rest of the DT. It was so much fun!

We headed back to our hotel and called it a night, well about then the last DT girl was dropped off- my roomie LESLIE!!!! Poor thing had an awful time getting to SLC because of storms in her area! But she settled right in and we talked till wee hours of the night- she is just SOOOO MUCH fun and too cute!!!!!

OK- now it FRIDAY-
Ate breakfast at the hotel and headed to get our tour of the Quickutz plant. HOLY MOLEY it takes a butt load of work to make dies!!!!!!!!!! I was just shocked!!!! I had always thought of Quickutz product as pricey- but NOT anymore!!! It takes about 4 weeks to get dies made and to shipping!!!!!!!!!!!! So I look at it all in a new light!!! ;)

We then got back in the conference room and started our classes- Basically all the DT members prepared a double 6x6 page defining their style and about them. So in other words we were to complete a circle album in a few hours! ;) We all premade our pages so that it wouldn't take 15 minutes per person. It was fun! I am just IN LOVE with my little album. Everyone had such gorgeous pages and unique style, I now see why we were all chosen for this team!

We had lunch and got our head shots taken by the FAB Kelli Noto, hope she can photoshop mine a little...LOL...I had the worst pimple on my forehead!!! :P

OMG- I almost forgot to mention the GIVEAWAYS!!!!!!!!!!! Every 10 minutes Andrea would give us ALL- yes ALL whole product lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And above that draw our names for even MORE FREE STUFF!!!!!!!!!!! I am just still in shock!!! I'll post a pic below of all our stuff...it felt like I was at the Oprah show- LOL!!!

We went to dinner at this YUMMY YUMMY restaurant- can't recall the name though...had the chicken marsala and it was just to die for!!! Got a little crazy at dinner and I had thought I scared Mark and Natasha the QK founders, but they were just the sweetest and great sports! ;) Yeah me and Syb are now the crazy {bloody} California girls!!!!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

After we got the the hotel, we went to the conference room that QK had reserved for us- how cool is that?! We all brought our books to exchange and write in...felt like a high school yearbook! LOL!!! I did more talking than writing...imagine that?!!! LOL!!!

SATURDAY----
Went back to the QK headquarters for our focus groups which gave us some sneak peaks of the stuff coming out- and OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!!!! I am just itching like a mad dog to get it all!!!!!!!! WOW is all I can say- some of those alphas esp have me so anxious.... ;)

We then split up in three groups and designated LSS to do make and takes- I ended up with Shannon and Linda with Michelle leading us. We went to the KMA store!!! I was so excited!!! I did HAVE to buy some KMA paper- how could I not?!!!! The make and take was so much fun, unfortunately I had had too much coffee and I think I was too energetic!!! I might have talked some poor unsuspecting victims' ears off!!! :P

We headed for lunch at this YUMMY Mexican restaurant- I think its called Cafe Rio...??? Then headed to two more LSS for shopping- Pebbles and Forget me not.

Before dinner we went to see some waterfalls by Sundance- I am awful at names and can't remember what it was called...:P

OMG dinner was just amazing!!! Guess what it was??? SUSHI!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE sushi!!!! :D Oh wow- I was so stuffed!!!

Again we all went to the conference room at the hotel for our last night together... :( BUT OMG- I laughed soooo hard I cried!!! Shanna lived up to her promise...and Kelli managed to explain to Yoriko what "sharted" was!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah...good times...

SUNDAY-
Woke up too early esp since me and Leslie talked the night away (I warned you I was a chatterbox- Leslie!) and headed to the Tabernacle choir- I was awestruck---wow!!! That has to be the biggest organ pipes in the world! We walked around Temple square, and the temple is just BEEEEAUTIFUL!!! Again I was awestruck!

We were taken to this beautiful plaza hotel for a breakfast brunch...and it was just yummilicious- and yes that is a word- I just made it up, so there!

It was so sad having to hug all the girls goodbye, we all started dwindling down, and were dropped off at the airport soon after. Spent some time with the last of the crew and had such a fun/crazy time...I still am convinced the bystanders must have thought I was a nutcase- I was standing on a chair to take pics of Linda and Syb being crazy...at this point we were delierious!!! LOL!!!