So I got a job, doing front desk and cafe work in a ski lodge up on the mountain, called Snow Creek Lodge.
Exterior:
Lobby:
Cafe:
There's not been much snow here (in Fernie terms anyway) but yesterday dumped down 22cm of fresh Fernie powder, mostly overnight, so it was great to wake up to Christmas morning. It's been snowing heavily most of the day today too, a great white Christmas! I was hoping we'd get at least some sprinkling of snow to make it officially a white Christmas, but this is the best snow there's been yet. Canada's first coast to coast white Christmas since 1971 don'tcha know? What better conditions for my first proper session of snowboarding? Yesterday I had some lessons, and then today went and did a proper run, complete with Santa hat of course. We were pretty tired out, so didn't stay up all day, got home about 3.
About 5 past 3 I get a phonecall telling me I was due in work about 5 minutes ago. I hadn't actually realised I had a shift, because I work both on front desk and the cafe, so I'm on two seperate rosters, which is a bit confusing. And I'm only scheduled in for one front desk shift over a 3 week period, this one, and I just thought I didn't have any for the next few weeks.
When I get in I realise I'm the only one on front desk, and I haven't really done enough front desk shifts/training to really know what I'm doing, so this should be an interesting shift... Fortunately, it should be very, very quiet. I'm the only employee in this giant ski lodge up on the mountain, til I go home at 11, with a handful of guests who are barely to be seen, whilst it's snowing heavily outside. It really is like The Shining. And oops, I think I've just fucked the safe up by getting the combination wrong 3 times in a row.
A few days ago I went to the Mogul Smoker, a big outdoor one night festival/party thing in a field out of town that went on til 4 am. It had one outdoor stage and one dance tent, both really both with DJs on, one of the DJs being from Jurassic Five. The temperature was about -31c and so even with a couple of big bonfires and heaters everyone was raving away in bulky ski/snowboard gear, and still pretty cold. It was quite the unique atmosphere. It was to honour the Griz, the local legend of a giant man who wrestled a bear to death as a baby and lives up in the mountain, and brings Fernie its special powdery snow. It seems to have worked.
Been to see a few ice hockey games, just our local team, the Fernie Ghostriders, named after the shadow that can be seen on one of the mountains in evening time. Apparently it looks like the dead native american chief who cursed the town back in the 1800s, riding a horse. I'm not much of a sports fan but ice hockey's pretty fun to watch.
So that's all I've been up to really, as I've been working a lot. Across at least 2 and a half weeks I have only two days off, which sucks, but after that I should have a lot more free time to practice getting good/competent at snowboarding. And I've just accidentally hung up on someone instead of transferring their call... Hmm... this is gonna be a Merry Christmas indeed.
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