KGD Trip to Georgia

I got caught up in all the 5k mess that I forgot to tell you about our weekend trip to Georgia a week ago!

Our rep with Interface, a carpet manufacturing company, treated a few of us at KGD with a trip to their company house in Pine Mountain, Georgia. We left Saturday afternoon with a smooth flight, and had an aammaazziinngg steak dinner at a local steak shack. I want to go back so so so bad. We had fried lobster tails, steak cooked perfectly, garlic mashed potatoes, cooked mushrooms and onions, and of course some southern biscuits.

Sunday morning, we woke up with a private chef cooking us a HUGE breakfast! I am not a grits girl, but I couldn't get enough of them! It was raining all day, so the two KGD guys on the trip couldn't play golf, but us girls got to enjoy our spa trip! We spent 3 hours at the spa, drinking lemon ginger water, sitting in the wet and dry saunas, relaxing with our 50 min. massage, and showering afterward of course. I find it hard to fully relax sometimes, but this place made me feel like I had melted and gone to heaven.

Sunday night, Tyrone the private chef, cooked us a genuine southern meal, with "colagreens", cornbread and biscuits, fried chicken, fried salmon (delicious), and macaroni and cheese.

Monday, we toured at the Interface carpet mills all day. We went to 4-5 different locations. The first location was where they stored all the yarns and weaved the carpets. Second was the location where they adhered all the backing to the carpets and cut them into tiles, third was the "awarehouse" where they design carpets for planes and showcased installations of all the carpets. Fourth was the custom carpet studio, where they design all the custom carpets for projects and experiment with new designs and colors, and the final destination was the science lab where they talked about how to clean the carpets, etc. The last was the most boring to me...

Then we headed home to DC. The flight, though, scared me more than anything I've ever experienced. The plane felt like it was dropping a few times, and it was because the clouds were soooo thick. Marshmellow clouds, I call them.

Here are a few pictures of the house we stayed in. It resembled Falling Water to me:

View out the windows:

The house:

Here are some of the tour:

Yarn

Weaving of the carpet

Backing

Warehouse

Custom yarns

Finished product

I learned so much during the tour. It also inspired me to have an interest in other parts of design. I am working in one avenue in the industry, but there are so many others I never knew about. I could see that there is light in the end of the tunnel for me. In other words, if I need to move at any point, I am not limited to what I am doing now, which makes me so happy. My job requires heavy hours, loads of stress and deadlines all with little pay, and needless to say, I don't know if I have a job that you can have a family with...I just can't see the two go hand in hand yet. We'll see :)