Team Outing with Petra and Iréne

Our guests Petra (Process Manager) and Iréne (Project Manager) are here in Colombo this week, mainly sharing knowledge with the Hatrick team (a sub team of the Corporate Services development team). I don't work for Hatrick, but we do communicate with each other.

Our company culture always encourage us to go for an outing with our guests. So, we decided to go for a dinner. As sea food is the most wanted item for our visitors, we chose the 'Fisherman Cove' at the Mount Lavinia Hotel.

Yesterday evening we all left our office for the dinner together with Petra and Iréne. The hotel was already illuminated with some lights and the sun was about to set. So, we rushed to the beach to see the sun set and we didn't miss it. This nice photograph should say how nice it was.

We moved to the roof-top of a building as someone in the team suggested that the view would be eye-catching. Thats true. We could see a wonderful view of the west coast of sri lanka, even our office at wellawatte was also visible.

Time was up so we again came back to the 'Fisherman Cove' to order the dinner. Loads of fresh sea food items were showcased for us to choose. We ordered grilled fish with french fries and vegetables. The dining table was set on top of a boat (not in the sea) in the beach side with lantterns and candles lit around. I already have had similar beach side dinner many times before but everytime its a different experience with different people and menu.

We talked about a lot of things; about globalization of food items and restaurants, fruits special for sri lanka, sweden and some other countries, Politics and also about the cockroaches and mosquitoes in sweden. Everybody shared their experiences in different countries with different people and food. It was really entertaining.
Before leaveing the place we took a snap of the our team.


I enjoyed the dinner and I hope everybody would feel the same. This kind of outings improve the relationship between the co-workers which eventually will increase the productivity of everyone.