One more week down and the season's finally really here. This week marks the start of school holidays and the opening of the rest of the mountain. The first week was good practice with smaller crowds and now the next 2 weeks will be filled with large crowds and busy days. Ashley got to use her loud vocal skills down at the bottom of the bunny slopes doing ticket checking and queue control on the beginner lift. What a long, loud day that was! You'd think after watching the few hundred people in front of you make their way onto the lift correctly that people would learn themselves and have it down by their turn...WRONG! Even after doing the same thing over and over again they still couldn't get it right. Amazing! But it was a fun day, and helping the small kids was a great experience.
Daniel finally got some good de-icing practice clibing towers and getting used to the methods. Now he's ready to get going with those early, cold, windy mornings.
This past weekend brought us some fun 4th of July patritisiom and we bonded with the other 6 Americans here in Staffies. Ashley wore a small US flag tucked into the front of her jacket and got a lot of comments and "Happy 4th of July" wishes from the locals. Even met a few more Americans---one from Novato, CA even! (that's only 15 minutes from Petaluma) We ended the night with a few cases of Budwiser hanging out with all the other staff living at staff quarters. Even all challenged the nationalities to singing the national anthems of all their countries...you'll have to wait to see the video on that one!
We've had the past 2 days off; our normal schedule will give us Sunday and Monday off, so we've been resting and relaxing. Took a hike to a nearby waterfall and read a few books. Enjoyed the winter rain and snow and a few movies. All in all, a good winter weekend :-D
Hope you all had a fun and safe 4th of July weekend. Enjoy that sunshine and don't forget your sunblock!
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