Today Julie was back from the there day weekend I gave her (I felt bad about taking so much time off for Stehekin and dock day and the lift and stuff). She enjoyed her time and came back feeling refreshed. Yesterday afternoon was the busiest day I have ever had in the Snack Bar. There is a massive family reunion (they all have matching T-shirts too) in the village right now and their matching T-shirts say, "We're only here for the ice cream. Johnson family reunion" You can imagine how busy that was. About 30 minutes into the shift, right after I started the dishwasher mind you, the power went out. The dishwasher takes 45 minutes so when the power didn't come back on until a half hour before the shift ended, you can imagine how many dishes I had piled up from the rest of the shift. I ran out of cups and large dishes. I also ran out of every kind of pop and a few ice creams but I couldn't replenish them because the power was out and I couldn't see in the basement...also, my flashlight doesn't work. It was fun though, despite the craziness. There was nothing to do so I hung around and talked to some lady from Lake Stevens (I had an aquafest shirt on and she recognizes it). She goes to Holy Cross, we know a lot of the same people.
I've decided that there are too many things to finish on my medical testing for the Peace Corps, so I'll be coming home. I think if I wait the few weeks that it is going to take for me to be able to leave, I'll only have another month and a little before I leave for good so it won't be sooo bad using all my outs in one more go. I only have 3 out days left. I know some people who are going through Lake Stevens, and staying with people there so I'm toying with the idea of hitching a ride with him. On the other hand, that would make me miss some of my really close friends' last day. Hmmm. I'll figure it out. Stupid Polio booster.
This morning I got up (Pancake day!!!) with plenty of time to get to breakfast because I only get up on Tuesdays for pancakes. Then I went back to sleep. I woke up at 8:25, got dressed, and ran to the dining hall for pancakes. I got there 2 minutes afterthe time. They were still putting out pancakes late, so I got one, despite the harassement from a good friend of mine on waitri about what time breakfast ends.
At breakfast I sat with a father and daughter, the daughter had just come back from the national youth gathering in New Orleans. We talked about New Orleans for a while and the state it's in and what kinds of things they did for service projects. I'm interested in knowing more about New Orleans before I attempt to make my trek down there.
Maybe I'll spend this extra time I have (from waking up so early) looking for some kind of program. If you know of any, please let me know emediatly. I want some program that is doing disaster releif down in New Orleans, where I wouldn't have to pay for housing, I could just live there and work. I have some leads but I'm still looking.
Ok, busy day today, it's supposed to be hot again, and every day until Thursday. I'm hoping by some freak occurance people don't want ice cream today, I literally went though half of my shipment yesterday afternoon alone.....we'll see if I run out or if I have to ration again.
<3
Amy
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Day off.
The longer I'm here, the more time I spend on porches. It's morphed into this. In the morning, afternoon, and around meal times, we're sitting on the upper floor porch of Lodge 1. At night, we change to The upper porch of Lodge 6 because it's farther away (so we can be lowder) and there is a hamoch and more seating. Last week a group of guests (the village is at capacity so they've been putting guests in the staff lodges) took over the upper Lodge 1 porch. We took drastic measures to re-claim it (including taking shifts sitting on the porches so they wouldn't take it. yesterday Matt wanted to take a nap so we had him sleep there. We all got him blankets and stuff so he would have incentive to stay there. It worked like a charm, the porch is ours again! We are the porch sitters!! We've decided to call it Central Porch, like in Friends, because that's where we all hang out when we're not sleeping or at work. After the last of my clost friends leave in the next two weeks I'm going to have to hang out on my own porch (Chalet 1). I knitted there today for a little bit while my roommate was playing the harp but it wasn't the same.
It is soo hot and we're understaffed so much that it seems like everyone is kind of on edge. The village is at capactiy and nobody has enough help. Everyone is working over 40 hours. I'm excited for cooler weather, less guests, and less work. That's ok though, I think everyone is kind of embracing the whole "work hard, play hard" modo.
I ran out of allergy medication.
I have to get a polio booster to finish my medical stuff for Peace Corps so I might be home before long. Then again, maybe I'll get it in Wenatchee and save my out days. I only have 3 out days left between now and September.
I woke up today to my alarm clock beeping and people standing outside my door talking about how loud my alarm clock in. I went outside and told them all that I'm a hard sleeper and it takes a lot to wake me up. They were like, "I guess!"
I guess that's all for now.....
I hope you enjoyed the random collection of thoughts in my head!
<3 Amy
It is soo hot and we're understaffed so much that it seems like everyone is kind of on edge. The village is at capactiy and nobody has enough help. Everyone is working over 40 hours. I'm excited for cooler weather, less guests, and less work. That's ok though, I think everyone is kind of embracing the whole "work hard, play hard" modo.
I ran out of allergy medication.
I have to get a polio booster to finish my medical stuff for Peace Corps so I might be home before long. Then again, maybe I'll get it in Wenatchee and save my out days. I only have 3 out days left between now and September.
I woke up today to my alarm clock beeping and people standing outside my door talking about how loud my alarm clock in. I went outside and told them all that I'm a hard sleeper and it takes a lot to wake me up. They were like, "I guess!"
I guess that's all for now.....
I hope you enjoyed the random collection of thoughts in my head!
<3 Amy
Friday, July 31, 2009
Sunshine
The sun is warm. The village is warm and dusty. Actually, we've been having showers off and on amidst the intense sun. Those are always nice breaks. We need the rain too, it's too dry here.
I was dinking around the village and I came by the evacuation plan. If we were evacuated I would be a floater. I'm not sure what that means, but it seems important to me!
Wednesday I went to dock day with the minors and junior minors to say goodbye to my friend Sam. Three hours down by the lake and I didn't jump in once even though it was in the 90's. Dillon, Sam, Jo, and I ended up playing this game of hearts that lasted the entire time. Actually, 10 minutes of my time was consumed by my taking pictures of Dillon and Sam jumping into the lake doing different poses. They turned out really well.
When it came time to walk over to the normal dock from refrigerator harbor to say goodbye to Sam we all got really mopey. We walked over and hung out until the boat arrived. Once it was time for Sam to get one we all had probably 10 group hugs and individual hugs. All the people on the boat and on the dock were looking at us like we're crazy....but we just love each other! Anyway, Sam left and it was sad. Our last words were Hanna shouting out "Don't you leave us Sam Wise Gamjee (sp?)" Of course he shouted back, "And I don't mean to!" Then we waved at the boat while walking backwards until we turned a corner and couldn't see him anymore. Everyone slept on the bus ride up the hill.
We got back into the village and I went to the Snack bar (I had taken the shift off because I've been working Beanie (the espresso cart so often this week). I guess 2 people didn't show up to scoop so Maggie from the pool hall came up to work and they were short a person. Poor Julie, this was the 2nd shift she had done alone. Ohg well. I gave here a 3 day weekend to make up for my missing for dock day and the stehekin trip. She's thrilled.
We're all sad that Sam is gone but we are all planning to meet in Seattle for New Years Eve. I guess this is a yearly tradition. A lot of the people I'm friends with this year were all friends and staff from last summer. I'm excited because I'm going to be in the greater Seattle area for New Years too! Woohoo.
The last three days I have been working Beanie (the espresso cart) in the morning then going to my job in the afternoon and at night. I've been tired. When I work Beanie I start at 6:15am and finish at 11:00am. Then I start my job at 12:45pm and am pretty much doing that until 10:3opm. Looong days. Tom, director Tom, got wind of this and told me that I was working too hard and that he didn't want to have to worry about me but that it was a really really great cup of coffes that I made him and that he heard I was Starbucks trained? haha. That rumor made it around somehow because people ask me a lot. Weird. Anyway, I'm going to tell Paul that I can't do more than 1 shift a week, unless they're really jammed, just because I'm already at 40 hours wiht my job and another 14 hours on top of that makes it so I don't sleep much. Needless to say, I slept in until 1oam this morning. I do like working Beanie though, it's fun....I'm just tired.
MY POP CAME YESTERDAY! Finally, there is pop other than Dr. Pepper in the Snack bar. I had to wait for 2 barge runs because Weinstein bevereges deceided not to record my order. Oh well, it's here now. The only problem is that 14 canisters (5 gallons each) came in and they're probably 40lbs a peice. My arms and shoulders are hurting from carrying them. I was tempted to wait a little bit longer to put in the pop even though everyone knows it came it just because people were so rude about it. Then I decided not to be a brat :). I spent probably 30 minutes messing with the Diet Pepsi to get it to work until Aaron (the medic) finally pipped up that he knew how to fix it. He messed with it for longer than I did and determined that there was a clog in one of the hoses but that it was gone now and the machine was working.
Yesterday for dinner a bunch of us split the 24oz Mountain Dew that Same left to us. YUM.
Ok, what else is happening. I think I decided not to extend. I'm going to talk to the staff coordinators anyway to see what I would be doing if I did extend but I'm pretty sure I won't. I kind of want to go on this road trip down the washington, oregon, california coast, over through Arizona to see the grand canyon and over to New Orleans (I'm still stuck on doing disaster releif there, I just don't know how to do it). I have friends in places all the way down the coast so I wouldn't have to pay for lodging or anything.....I've always wanted to do a road trip like that too. The only hang up is that my car still won't pass emissions and all the money I would have to spend on the road trip will probably go toward fixing the car, then there wouldn't be much point to doing anything but selling it. Hmm. Anyone want to go on a road trip??
I think that's about it for today. I can't beleive that tomorrow is the 1st of Augest already! Weird. I need to get some people to scoop ice cream for today. Anouncement anouncement!
I guess that's about it. I'll try to get some pictures up soon. I decided what kind of camera I'm going to get! Now it's just a matter of finding a deal on it.
<3 Amy
I was dinking around the village and I came by the evacuation plan. If we were evacuated I would be a floater. I'm not sure what that means, but it seems important to me!
Wednesday I went to dock day with the minors and junior minors to say goodbye to my friend Sam. Three hours down by the lake and I didn't jump in once even though it was in the 90's. Dillon, Sam, Jo, and I ended up playing this game of hearts that lasted the entire time. Actually, 10 minutes of my time was consumed by my taking pictures of Dillon and Sam jumping into the lake doing different poses. They turned out really well.
When it came time to walk over to the normal dock from refrigerator harbor to say goodbye to Sam we all got really mopey. We walked over and hung out until the boat arrived. Once it was time for Sam to get one we all had probably 10 group hugs and individual hugs. All the people on the boat and on the dock were looking at us like we're crazy....but we just love each other! Anyway, Sam left and it was sad. Our last words were Hanna shouting out "Don't you leave us Sam Wise Gamjee (sp?)" Of course he shouted back, "And I don't mean to!" Then we waved at the boat while walking backwards until we turned a corner and couldn't see him anymore. Everyone slept on the bus ride up the hill.
We got back into the village and I went to the Snack bar (I had taken the shift off because I've been working Beanie (the espresso cart so often this week). I guess 2 people didn't show up to scoop so Maggie from the pool hall came up to work and they were short a person. Poor Julie, this was the 2nd shift she had done alone. Ohg well. I gave here a 3 day weekend to make up for my missing for dock day and the stehekin trip. She's thrilled.
We're all sad that Sam is gone but we are all planning to meet in Seattle for New Years Eve. I guess this is a yearly tradition. A lot of the people I'm friends with this year were all friends and staff from last summer. I'm excited because I'm going to be in the greater Seattle area for New Years too! Woohoo.
The last three days I have been working Beanie (the espresso cart) in the morning then going to my job in the afternoon and at night. I've been tired. When I work Beanie I start at 6:15am and finish at 11:00am. Then I start my job at 12:45pm and am pretty much doing that until 10:3opm. Looong days. Tom, director Tom, got wind of this and told me that I was working too hard and that he didn't want to have to worry about me but that it was a really really great cup of coffes that I made him and that he heard I was Starbucks trained? haha. That rumor made it around somehow because people ask me a lot. Weird. Anyway, I'm going to tell Paul that I can't do more than 1 shift a week, unless they're really jammed, just because I'm already at 40 hours wiht my job and another 14 hours on top of that makes it so I don't sleep much. Needless to say, I slept in until 1oam this morning. I do like working Beanie though, it's fun....I'm just tired.
MY POP CAME YESTERDAY! Finally, there is pop other than Dr. Pepper in the Snack bar. I had to wait for 2 barge runs because Weinstein bevereges deceided not to record my order. Oh well, it's here now. The only problem is that 14 canisters (5 gallons each) came in and they're probably 40lbs a peice. My arms and shoulders are hurting from carrying them. I was tempted to wait a little bit longer to put in the pop even though everyone knows it came it just because people were so rude about it. Then I decided not to be a brat :). I spent probably 30 minutes messing with the Diet Pepsi to get it to work until Aaron (the medic) finally pipped up that he knew how to fix it. He messed with it for longer than I did and determined that there was a clog in one of the hoses but that it was gone now and the machine was working.
Yesterday for dinner a bunch of us split the 24oz Mountain Dew that Same left to us. YUM.
Ok, what else is happening. I think I decided not to extend. I'm going to talk to the staff coordinators anyway to see what I would be doing if I did extend but I'm pretty sure I won't. I kind of want to go on this road trip down the washington, oregon, california coast, over through Arizona to see the grand canyon and over to New Orleans (I'm still stuck on doing disaster releif there, I just don't know how to do it). I have friends in places all the way down the coast so I wouldn't have to pay for lodging or anything.....I've always wanted to do a road trip like that too. The only hang up is that my car still won't pass emissions and all the money I would have to spend on the road trip will probably go toward fixing the car, then there wouldn't be much point to doing anything but selling it. Hmm. Anyone want to go on a road trip??
I think that's about it for today. I can't beleive that tomorrow is the 1st of Augest already! Weird. I need to get some people to scoop ice cream for today. Anouncement anouncement!
I guess that's about it. I'll try to get some pictures up soon. I decided what kind of camera I'm going to get! Now it's just a matter of finding a deal on it.
<3 Amy
Monday, July 27, 2009
Some highlights from the last week.
Last week I was sitting in Vespers waiting for it to start when Tom, one of the directors, came up to me and sat down. He told me that they recently had a staffing meeting and my ears should have been burning. He said that they talked about my "uber fabulousness" for about 5 minutes straight and that I am the treasure. It was really nice to hear. That explains why Noah, one of the staff coordinators, came up to me and told me that I'm doing a great job and asked me to extend until I absolutely had to leave to prepare for Peace Corps. This seemed like even more of a compliment after I found out that my roommate tried to extend for fall and winter and they said that they didn't have a place for her so she is only staying until November. Weird.
Right now Tom and Paul, two of the directors, are running around the offices with socks on but no shoes talking about who is going to water the window boxes. Only at Holden!
Dance party in the garage on the second level. Did I explain that already? Terry, the mechanic, and Daniel, the mechanic's apprentice hosted a dance party in the garage on the second level. It was nice and cool down there with the giant doors open. After we all got too warm and tired we hung around outside and watched the stars. Then we helped Daniel clean up and played this game called "imagineifff..." Turns out I'm really bad at it. There were 7 people playing. I tied for last place with a girl that hadn't played the last 45 minutes because she was sleeping on the couch. Awesome. It was fun though.
Last night I went in the jaccuzzi with a few people. After we got too warm and pruny we went into the sauna (much better). We listened to music, hung out, and sweated a lot. One last dip in the dipping pool and we all went our separate ways. I read for a while, then went to bed feeling really relaxed from the sauna.
It is too hot already!!!! Boo. I think I heard that it is supposed to hit 100 today and tomorrow. Wow.
Right now Tom and Paul, two of the directors, are running around the offices with socks on but no shoes talking about who is going to water the window boxes. Only at Holden!
Dance party in the garage on the second level. Did I explain that already? Terry, the mechanic, and Daniel, the mechanic's apprentice hosted a dance party in the garage on the second level. It was nice and cool down there with the giant doors open. After we all got too warm and tired we hung around outside and watched the stars. Then we helped Daniel clean up and played this game called "imagineifff..." Turns out I'm really bad at it. There were 7 people playing. I tied for last place with a girl that hadn't played the last 45 minutes because she was sleeping on the couch. Awesome. It was fun though.
Last night I went in the jaccuzzi with a few people. After we got too warm and pruny we went into the sauna (much better). We listened to music, hung out, and sweated a lot. One last dip in the dipping pool and we all went our separate ways. I read for a while, then went to bed feeling really relaxed from the sauna.
It is too hot already!!!! Boo. I think I heard that it is supposed to hit 100 today and tomorrow. Wow.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
:)
I'll start from this weekend and then move backwards through the week so I don't forget anything.
This weekend was a good friend of mine's birthday so a big group of about 12 people went to go camping in Stehekin. Best weekend ever! We left the village on the early bus at 10:45. The boat ride was only an hour and a lot of fun. We played cards. There was another person who knows how to play euchre, so we taught everyone. When we got to stehekin we brought all of our stuff up to the ranger station/visitors area to get a permit for camping. The ranger invited us to a potluck within 15 minutes of being in Stehekin!! Judy Clark welcomed us off the boat (she has a strong relationship with Holden). We brought all of our stuff up to camp then went down to get lunch at the restaurant. I got a veggie burger and a coke (this weekend was about food mostly). As soon as we were done eating we went to the small general store where we all bought things we can't get in the village (ie. chips, beer, ect). By the time we got out of the store it started pooring down rain!! We waited out the storm a little and then headed up to our camp site. We set up our tents and set up everything we needed. It started pooring again. We waiting out the storm again, this time in our tents, and then just kind of hung around until it was time to make our 7:00 dinner reservations at the same restaurant (the only restaurant in the town). The potluck started at 7:30 and since we didn't know anyone but ourselves in the village, we decided to go late to limit the awkwardness. The time came, we ate. I had a grilled cheese and french fries! Mmmmm. Good times were had.
After dinner, we headed straight to the potluck. It was full of people our age, we didn't realize there were 20 somethings in Stehekin. We had a good time. I guess it's a stehekin tradition to have your toe nails painted when you first arrive; it's a sort of welcoming ceremony. We participated. We hung around with the locals for a while until it was nice and dark. Then we decided to head back up to camp to have a bon fire. We had a bon fire, roasted marsh mellows and enjoyed each others company for a while. We also sang happy birthday a few times to Hannah at midnight after a fairly intense countdown. After we let the fire burn out, we decided to go down to the dock to watch the stars. We did that for probably an hour until we were all falling asleep. We brushed our teeth, cleaned up, and went to bed after a long stream of goodnights yelled from the 5 different tents we brought for 12 people.
The morning was pretty much a dead race to the bathrooms because they were so far away that nobody went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and going around the camp wasn't going to happen because it was a pretty hopping camp site. We cleaned up our tents and trash and everything and went down to the visitors center to store our stuff until it was time for the boat to leave. We dropped our stuff and walked to the bike rental place to get pikes to go to the bakery. We did. It was beautiful and warm and a gorgeous ride. The word "Euphoric" was passed around a lot. We went to the bakery, got food (I got a cinimon roll and I got a cheap day-old blackberry scone to take back to the village and supplument the oat meal) and hung around until it was time to get our bikes back. On the bike ride back we all sang "American Pie" really lowdly as we road around the lake in the sunshine. It was really great how aware we all were that we were having a great time.
When we got back, we grabbed our stuff, put it by the boat and hung out around the porch of the restaurant we had been hanging around. We played cards and talked about everything. Once it was lunchtime we ate lunch (I got a basket of fries and a cocoa-cola. I also had a drink of Hannah's chocolate milk! By the time lunch was over and we had hung around outside some more it was time to board the boat and get back to the village. On the boat ride back we played Euchre and talked to Lee Klueth and his gang from Trinity. I didn't see him because he was behind a poll until I heard, "Hey! Cross girl!!" He asked me about the graduation card he sent me (I took a picture of it and put it up here a while ago, it just has a picture of his face on it). I told him it was awesome and I posted it on my blog. He got a kick out of that. We talked about hiking in, they hiked in to Stehekin and were boating in. I talked about my hike in from Trinity. We swapped stories and chatted for a while. When we got off the boat we had to say goodbye to our good friend Aaron who has been here for a month and a half (this trip was half happy birthday and half goodbye Aaron). He stayed on the boat. We had a massive group-hug that freaked out all the people on the boat and stepped onto the dock. I guess Aaron graduated with me from PLU but neither of us had ever seen the other. I hate how often people leave here.
On the bus ride up the mountain into the village we all pretty much dosed. This was the best weekend I've had in a loong time. Also, I'll never eat again...seriously.
I feel really refreshed being back in the village now. I also feel like a big part of it based on how many people have come up to me and asked how
my weekend away was. It was great! When I got back, I checked my e-mail. Someone sent me a picture of my and the rootbeer float from the parade on the 4th of July. Here it is!
Last week has pretty much been hanging out on different porches. That pretty much fills my day. Hopefully the story of my weekend is enough to satisfy you until I can get pictures from Jubilee of my ice cream creations from the auction!
<3 Amy
This weekend was a good friend of mine's birthday so a big group of about 12 people went to go camping in Stehekin. Best weekend ever! We left the village on the early bus at 10:45. The boat ride was only an hour and a lot of fun. We played cards. There was another person who knows how to play euchre, so we taught everyone. When we got to stehekin we brought all of our stuff up to the ranger station/visitors area to get a permit for camping. The ranger invited us to a potluck within 15 minutes of being in Stehekin!! Judy Clark welcomed us off the boat (she has a strong relationship with Holden). We brought all of our stuff up to camp then went down to get lunch at the restaurant. I got a veggie burger and a coke (this weekend was about food mostly). As soon as we were done eating we went to the small general store where we all bought things we can't get in the village (ie. chips, beer, ect). By the time we got out of the store it started pooring down rain!! We waited out the storm a little and then headed up to our camp site. We set up our tents and set up everything we needed. It started pooring again. We waiting out the storm again, this time in our tents, and then just kind of hung around until it was time to make our 7:00 dinner reservations at the same restaurant (the only restaurant in the town). The potluck started at 7:30 and since we didn't know anyone but ourselves in the village, we decided to go late to limit the awkwardness. The time came, we ate. I had a grilled cheese and french fries! Mmmmm. Good times were had.
After dinner, we headed straight to the potluck. It was full of people our age, we didn't realize there were 20 somethings in Stehekin. We had a good time. I guess it's a stehekin tradition to have your toe nails painted when you first arrive; it's a sort of welcoming ceremony. We participated. We hung around with the locals for a while until it was nice and dark. Then we decided to head back up to camp to have a bon fire. We had a bon fire, roasted marsh mellows and enjoyed each others company for a while. We also sang happy birthday a few times to Hannah at midnight after a fairly intense countdown. After we let the fire burn out, we decided to go down to the dock to watch the stars. We did that for probably an hour until we were all falling asleep. We brushed our teeth, cleaned up, and went to bed after a long stream of goodnights yelled from the 5 different tents we brought for 12 people.
The morning was pretty much a dead race to the bathrooms because they were so far away that nobody went to the bathroom in the middle of the night and going around the camp wasn't going to happen because it was a pretty hopping camp site. We cleaned up our tents and trash and everything and went down to the visitors center to store our stuff until it was time for the boat to leave. We dropped our stuff and walked to the bike rental place to get pikes to go to the bakery. We did. It was beautiful and warm and a gorgeous ride. The word "Euphoric" was passed around a lot. We went to the bakery, got food (I got a cinimon roll and I got a cheap day-old blackberry scone to take back to the village and supplument the oat meal) and hung around until it was time to get our bikes back. On the bike ride back we all sang "American Pie" really lowdly as we road around the lake in the sunshine. It was really great how aware we all were that we were having a great time.
When we got back, we grabbed our stuff, put it by the boat and hung out around the porch of the restaurant we had been hanging around. We played cards and talked about everything. Once it was lunchtime we ate lunch (I got a basket of fries and a cocoa-cola. I also had a drink of Hannah's chocolate milk! By the time lunch was over and we had hung around outside some more it was time to board the boat and get back to the village. On the boat ride back we played Euchre and talked to Lee Klueth and his gang from Trinity. I didn't see him because he was behind a poll until I heard, "Hey! Cross girl!!" He asked me about the graduation card he sent me (I took a picture of it and put it up here a while ago, it just has a picture of his face on it). I told him it was awesome and I posted it on my blog. He got a kick out of that. We talked about hiking in, they hiked in to Stehekin and were boating in. I talked about my hike in from Trinity. We swapped stories and chatted for a while. When we got off the boat we had to say goodbye to our good friend Aaron who has been here for a month and a half (this trip was half happy birthday and half goodbye Aaron). He stayed on the boat. We had a massive group-hug that freaked out all the people on the boat and stepped onto the dock. I guess Aaron graduated with me from PLU but neither of us had ever seen the other. I hate how often people leave here.
On the bus ride up the mountain into the village we all pretty much dosed. This was the best weekend I've had in a loong time. Also, I'll never eat again...seriously.
I feel really refreshed being back in the village now. I also feel like a big part of it based on how many people have come up to me and asked how
my weekend away was. It was great! When I got back, I checked my e-mail. Someone sent me a picture of my and the rootbeer float from the parade on the 4th of July. Here it is!Last week has pretty much been hanging out on different porches. That pretty much fills my day. Hopefully the story of my weekend is enough to satisfy you until I can get pictures from Jubilee of my ice cream creations from the auction!
<3 Amy
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Mmmmm Tuesday mornings = Pancakes!
The last few days have pretty much consisted of hanging out on porches, like normal. I wasn't going to post that over and over again, but then I was informed that it is important information.
Today Noah, one of the staff coordinators, came up to me and asked me to extend my stay through fall. He said that he didn't know how long they could continue my area head stipend but they would love to have me up here. I told him that it was on my mind and I would go and talk to him and Daniel about it before long. Then he told me thank you for everything I do. I guess I'm not doing a bad job.
This last week some people that know my grandma were up. They were nice. Also, I have a group of 5 cousins that have scooped for me 2 or 3 times now and are going to scoop again tomorrow night because they like doing it so much. There are so many of them that I don't really have to work. Plus, their families hang around and they're a riot. They keep making me be in all of their pictures and home videos. I like them a lot though, they're great.
Last night we had a get together on the Lodge 6 porch because it was my friend Wacky Jacki's last night here before going home. We hung around on the porch for a while then decided to walk out to the ball feild to go star gazing. We played a game called "Star tripping" where everyone spreads out a lot, you look straight up, pick a star and stair at if for 10 seconds while you spin around in circles. After the 10 seconds are up, one person (pre-determined) turns on a flashlight (because it's completely dark) and everyone has to run to the light. The first one to the flashlight wins. It's more fun than it sounds like and it sounds like a lot of fun right?
After that game we laid in the grass for a while and watched the stars until we were tired enough to go to bed.
That night, before going to bed, I decided to check my e-mail. That's when I found out about Bill. My heart and prayers go out to the Stepp family.
Jacki was the first one of my good friends here (besides Allison) to leave. This week two of my other friends, Aaron and Sam, are leaving. Lame. This weekend a bunch of us are going to Stehekin for Hannah's 21st birthday! We're going to camp! Don't worry family (Mom), this will not be like my or Sarah's 21st birthdays.
My rootbeer that was supposed to come 2 weeks ago and then was promised again today never came. I might have to switch distributers. Grr.
Thursday is Jubilee....I need to get on the ice cream creations for the auction. I know I'm going to make a bunch of ice cream sandwhiches, a giant ice cream Sunday and some banana splits...I just need to actually do it. Ok, that's all for now. Thanks for the mail everyone that has been sending me mail and packages...it makes my day every time! I think about you all very often and miss you tons!
<3 Amy
Today Noah, one of the staff coordinators, came up to me and asked me to extend my stay through fall. He said that he didn't know how long they could continue my area head stipend but they would love to have me up here. I told him that it was on my mind and I would go and talk to him and Daniel about it before long. Then he told me thank you for everything I do. I guess I'm not doing a bad job.
This last week some people that know my grandma were up. They were nice. Also, I have a group of 5 cousins that have scooped for me 2 or 3 times now and are going to scoop again tomorrow night because they like doing it so much. There are so many of them that I don't really have to work. Plus, their families hang around and they're a riot. They keep making me be in all of their pictures and home videos. I like them a lot though, they're great.
Last night we had a get together on the Lodge 6 porch because it was my friend Wacky Jacki's last night here before going home. We hung around on the porch for a while then decided to walk out to the ball feild to go star gazing. We played a game called "Star tripping" where everyone spreads out a lot, you look straight up, pick a star and stair at if for 10 seconds while you spin around in circles. After the 10 seconds are up, one person (pre-determined) turns on a flashlight (because it's completely dark) and everyone has to run to the light. The first one to the flashlight wins. It's more fun than it sounds like and it sounds like a lot of fun right?
After that game we laid in the grass for a while and watched the stars until we were tired enough to go to bed.
That night, before going to bed, I decided to check my e-mail. That's when I found out about Bill. My heart and prayers go out to the Stepp family.
Jacki was the first one of my good friends here (besides Allison) to leave. This week two of my other friends, Aaron and Sam, are leaving. Lame. This weekend a bunch of us are going to Stehekin for Hannah's 21st birthday! We're going to camp! Don't worry family (Mom), this will not be like my or Sarah's 21st birthdays.
My rootbeer that was supposed to come 2 weeks ago and then was promised again today never came. I might have to switch distributers. Grr.
Thursday is Jubilee....I need to get on the ice cream creations for the auction. I know I'm going to make a bunch of ice cream sandwhiches, a giant ice cream Sunday and some banana splits...I just need to actually do it. Ok, that's all for now. Thanks for the mail everyone that has been sending me mail and packages...it makes my day every time! I think about you all very often and miss you tons!
<3 Amy
Friday, July 17, 2009
I haven't posted in a while
I came back to a very colorful ice cream freezer that badly needs defrosting.
Diana at the top of Clowdy Pass looking back.
Top of Clowdy pass near where we ate lunch.
Esme and Andrew at the top of Clowdy Pass eating lunch looking out on Lyman Lakes.
What we were hoping was Buck Creek Pass....turned out to be No Pass Pass (accuratly named).
Here are some pictures to make up for the fact that I haven't posted in a week.
http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report.2009-07-17.8791799062
Here is a link to my Dad's trail report on our trip on the WTA website. This is pretty much how the hike was. He just left out how we hung out a lot...Diana, Esme, and I had story time in the Taj Mahal (Diana and I's tent) with a guidepost that Diana brought because it was lighter than a book.
It was great (and a little weird) having my familly in the village for a while after the hike. I spent a lot of time with them when I wasn't working, and a little when I was working (I got Diana, Esme, Mom, and Dad all to scoop for me). On Tuesday the 14th, I got my new staff member Julie. She's not Allison but she's pretty great. I thought I scared her away when I first met her with my enthusiasm...turns out she was just hungry. Oh well. That day Julie, Diana, Esme, Andrew, and I all played our traditional game of frisbee golf. While my family (I'm in including the Dutchers in this) was here we did freisbee golf, blindfolded hallway walking, and all the other things we do when we're at Holden. Good times.
Thursday afternoon they all left....except for the Wilsons who are here still...I think I've only seen them 3 times since I've been here.
That day I spent catching up with my Holden friends. I had been gone so long with the hike and with my family here and everything that there was a 50% turnover of people in my group that I hang out with a lot. Weird.
Today I slept in for the first time in a long time. I got up and had some cereal...since breakfast had been long gone. After breakfast, ordering ice cream and pop and writting out a schedule for Julie I went back to my chalet to take care of the massive pile of stuff I had been accumulating on my bed since the fam was here. I just kept piling it there because at night my roommate is sleeping and I didn't want to bother her and in the morning I was too tired to take care of it. I'm rarely home in the middle of the day. I cleaned up a little but too because Chalet 1 is hosting the staff social tonight. I have to get marsh mellows from Larry.
After I cleaned up I unted down Paul, my supervisor, to see if he still needed me to take a few shifts on the espresso car that just opened. Grace, who normally runs it has the plague that has been running around Holden so she is in bed sick leaving the very busy Paul to run it all alone. He was extremely grateful that I was willing to help out. I told him that I prefer to not work Sundays but that I was more than happy to fill in whenever there needs to be a person work. I start tomorrow morning at 6:30am. I didn't see that one coming.
At lunch just now I was found by Karen (Paul's whife) who was asking me about my Jubilee plans for the snack bar. I have some plans stewing in my head to make some ice cream creations for the auction but other than that, I need to figure things out. She did give me the times we should be open (different than normal because it is a festival day) so that was helpful.
Last night, after I closed, I went over to Creekside where a bunch of the staff members were watching the first of the Lort of the Rings movies. It was the first time I had ever watched it in it's entirety. It was the extended edition. I didn't get to sleep until 2:00am. Good thing I could sleep in this morning.
Now that things are back to normal and I'm back in my routine(ish) I'm going to head up to the kitchen to grab my dishes before I meet Julie at 1:15 to start carrying ice. Fun fun!!
My rootbeer shipment didn't come last week when it was supposed to and now I'm still waiting ot hear from my supplier to see if they received the order....even though I know they did because they sent me a confirmation of the order....sheesh.
It's hot out today (upper 90's) for those of you who care.
That's all for now. I miss you all!!!!
Amy
Oh yeah! I learned out to knit hats! I'm a hat knitting feind now!
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