Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Day 2.5





Well today went by much smoother. With each passing hour I become more accustomed to the ways of the hotel business. It snowed pretty much all day today, which provided a delightful rolling visual through the tall Great Room windows.
This evening after work I attended a Bible study on the first floor with the local pastor and a group of international employees also in Big Sky for the Winter. Most of them were from Argentina tonight, so it was fun working through the remaining fragments of language barrier.

Pictures, from top: Merlin, Arthur, and Raheem; a fire beneath Andiamo Italian restaurant; a snowed-in playground.

More Fun Facts:

Jeff and Dave are holding a New Year's party at the Lodge with an East Coast toast at 10 and a Mountain toast at midnight.

Five law officers entered the Lodge tonight looking for movie thieves, and very nearly arrested two innocent boys in the Great Room just because they were wearing hoodies. We had to alibi them out of a trip to the Sheriff's office. Sound familiar?

When mascara is wiped off onto a hand towel, it dies and is reborn as a rag :-)

Even industrial hotel toilets can get clogged, and the task of unclogging may fall to anyone.

And here are a few videos:




Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Stepping into Fire

Wow what a whirlwind!. The relevant facts are these:

a) Montana is cold, but dry - making it surprisingly less cold than one might think.

b) Snow abounds.

c) I've been working every waking hour since I stepped off the plane.

d) With a full house, things are wild and wooly here.

e) There is a fully functioning igloo behind the lodge.

Besides that, I'm having to work overtime to keep my lips in their unchapped state, Jeff's had to take a huge load of pool towels home to wash, and I've given dozens of restaurants recommendations and directions to a town that I have not seen yet :-)

Videos up soon!!