So I must apologize for not posting anything for the last three months. When the lodge closed for the season in mid-October, I was super excited to have some down time so I took a trip to Breckenridge to visit Jacklyn then jetted off to New Orleans for Halloween and Voodoo Fest. It was nice to get out of the wilderness for a while. I love trips, especially for the food and shopping.
In other news, we had our first snowfall in mid-October but it hasn’t snowed very much in the last couple of months. All of my coworkers LOVE the snow and have been complaining that there’s not enough for skiing and whatnot. I like sunny days with no dreary snow falling. It makes it SO hard to wake up in the morning when it’s all dark and cold, plus when I leave work at 5pm it’s already dark outside. I really don’t think this could be much different from living in Alaska for the winter.
I have gotten outside a little bit though…I took my first downhill ski lesson in November and was not so great at it, but it was better than trying to snowboard. It was about time for me to try and learn how to ski since I’ve been here for 2 years now! (Dec 1 was my two year anniversary). Because I didn’t learn all of the things that the class guarantees you’ll learn by the end of the day, I get to take another lesson all day for Free! Not sure when I will do that…
I also went cross country skiing last weekend on the inner park road. I could do that every weekend–it wasn’t very hard and it felt like good exercise.
For Thanksgiving I went to the Snow King Resort buffet with Fritz then watched a movie–Super 8. For my birthday (Dec 12) I went and saw the Muppets and had a little gathering at a Snow King condo I rented for the weekend. On my actual birthday, the girls that I work with came over and brought cake and ice cream. We also watched a movie called “17 Miracles” about the Mormon migration from England to Salt Lake. I cannot imagine traveling with only a cart across this area in the winter. I mean seriously, I won’t even walk a block to work in the cold or snow. 
Aside from that, work has been pretty slow. I planned our X-Mas Party at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Art Museum and it went very well. A group of us also volunteered at the church in Jackson to serve their holiday dinner. I baked two delicious coconut cakes for it.
I plan to stay around Jackson for Christmas and New Years…eating and drinking and what not. My next trip home is for Mardi Gras. Yay!!
Anyway, I wish I could think of a funny story to post but life has been very normal. I haven’t taken many new photos of the outdoors because I feel like they’ll all start to look the same as previous years. Here are some from the last month or so and I am officially promising myself via the post to take more pictures.
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- Woke up to LOTS of snow on 11-18, then it pretty much all went away
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- This is what the sunset looks like at 5:15pm
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- Mr. Fox in the portico
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- Holiday Party at the Museum
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- A view of the tables from upstairs at the Museum
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- That’s Keegan Bradley’s dad sitting right there
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- Delicious strawberry b-day cake
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- The tables at the church dinner before the crowd of 200 came
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- Sabre and Shawna at the church dinner
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- Tireless volunteers
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- Dessert table with my coconut cake
