Working while the weather is nice here is some kind of torture. We even swung the windows open in the restaurant it was so nice out today. One of the best days yet. 70s, sunny all day (so rare), breeze, perfect for anything outside. And guess who had a breakfast – lunch double… This guy (2 thumbs pointed at myself). I couldn’t let it hold me down though. Robbie and I both had a double. We decided we had to go for at least a short hike after, you just have to take advantage of this kind of weather. We decided to go over to the Lake area for a hike. We checked one of the hand outs from orientation listing different hikes in that area and decided on one called Elephant Back. It described a 1.5 - 2 mile ascent to an amazing view of the lake and the mountains in the distance. Sold. We drove the 40 minutes around the way and started the hike around 6pm. Its so great that it doesn’t get dark til almost 10pm. The weather was a little chillier bc we were higher in elevation, maybe 60 or so, but still great weather. The pics look great I think, especially my signature stretch, but they do it absolutely no justice. I took a quick little video of the panorama from the top, hopefully it gives you a better scope. There were hippies up there doing cool hippie shit like drawing and wearing hoodies that said “Yellowstoner” on the back, probably picked that guy up at the Old Faithful gift shop. The hike took a couple hours, lots of unreal terrain and views, of course no bears. No anything really, a few chipmunks and squirrels, but no big game. After the hike, we decided to drive around the Lake area and we found some really scenic back roads. If I ever come back here to work or vacation, Lake is the spot. We stopped at a really neat bend in the road running right next to the water, I tried to get the super sexy stretch pose on top of my car, but as you can see that attempt failed miserably, the stretch pic didn’t go as planned, the only one worth seeing it just looks like Im fixing something on the luggage rack, so lets just go with that. We drove back through a long and colorful sunset watching the mountains in the distance change from hues of orange and purple as the sun kept falling. Its funny how a long day at work can be forgotten so quickly with a solid dose of nature and good people. Great day.
Tomorrow is my Friday, another Bozeman “weekend" is planned, only this time with Johnny and Robbie, and maybe Manfred. Manfred is from Singapore, really cool guy who works in the kitchen with Johnny. As far as the jobs go, the bottom line is that the job doesn’t matter. The pics above are why Im here. But since I know my mom wants to know and I don’t get to talk Ruth or anyone as much as I would like, here’s a quick update. The Food and Beverage director approached me today about a somewhat management position, an inventory manager for old faithful called a “store keeper.” Every job here has a cute little euphemism. Im not sure if they looked at my work history in STL or what, but it was flattering the way she was talking to me, I mean I bus tables (todem pole location = low) and shes talking about some type of management? I came out here to read, run, relax, and explore and not think twice about work, maybe not even think once. That position doesn’t sound conducive to any of my “goals”. She also said another option was splitting time between serving in the restaurant (starting serving next week for sure) and working in the warehouse. I told her I wanted door number 2, but she told me to think about it, so I guess she wants me to take the Store Keeper position opening in a couple weeks. That just sounds like a lot of stress and not as much fun as telling a table of older women in the restaurant last night that “Mike and I appreciate the compliment,” after they said “We haven’t seen anything ugly since we’ve been here.” Mike is a big lean guy from New York with a booming voice and a big smile, always popular with the ladies. He is a server in the restaurant and does better financially waiting tables than most of us salary desk jockeys. Mike and I were both at their table, so much fun. Serving is gonna be stressful at times, but so much fun, not all the time, but moments like that will happen often enough and meeting people from all over the world will both make it worth while, and I will have a couple days in the warehouse to stay out of the bees nest that is the restaurant. That’s the plan anyway…
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