We housekeepers went on a group board break one day and chucked some bras we had unclaimed in Lost and Found.
Me, Becky, Olivia and Elly
On the 11th Becky and I did a First Aid course, which was super fun and easy. You'll be glad to know we passed so I can (try to) save a choking you with this new found knowledge.
Below are some photos of Becky's birthday at Norquay.
Norquay Shredding Crew. Rob, Elena, Alan, Rachel, Becky, Alex, Elly, me, Ally, Olivia and Matt.
Myself, Olivia, Elly and Becky
Tubing
That was February.
March.
Nothing interesting happened until Wednesday 13th when we had our pre-St. Patrick's day party at everybody's favourite bar, Trappers. The bar keeps swapped their normal grey uniforms for green, there was green decorations up and best of all-the beer was green. I'd never seen that before (probably because I'd never celebrated St. Patties day before) but I was assured that it's quite common, and there is even a river that gets dyed every year for that one day. I don't want to know what they put in it to make it so. Well actually I do. Even better then green beer was the igloos that we built earlier that evening. Ed, the front desk supervisor and our housekeeping supervisor Mareika decided that we should have a team building exercise so got a guy in to show us how igloos are built. My team consisted of Adam from concierge, Azarlia, Sandra and Eva who work with me. We were the only team to finish our 'inhabitable' igloo-something we are quite proud of. In case you don't know how to build an igloo, you saw blocks of snow, starting smallish and working bigger, slanting them so they lean on each other. They naturally curve in and wind up to become an igloo. Sounds simple but it took us like two or more hours to complete. But such an awesome experience.
Floor planning with Eva and Azarlia
Helping Adam
Eva, myself, Azarlia, Igloo, Adam and Sandra
This was taken just as I broke the doorway..you can see the crack..
Tuesday 18th to Friday 21st I went on a little roadie with Becky, Adam, Matt and Elly. We left Banff after work on the 18th and headed in our red rental to Fernie Ski Resort. Wednesday we boarded all day and Fernie was a really cool resort but unfortunately it had been rained on a week or so prior so even though there was powder on the top under was all rough and bumpy, so that kind of ruined it. We headed to our accommodation in Pincher Creek for the night. Thursday was boarding again, but this time at Castle Ski Resort. The powder there was amazing-easily the nicest pow I've seen in my life. It was a smaller resort and tucked away-the best kept secret ae. We stayed the night again in Pincher and took our sweet time heading back to Banff. It was nice having that whole day to head home as it meant we arrived back at work feeling like we'd had time off, and not like we needed a days rest.
Elly and Becky excited for the 'weekend' boarding
Becky at Fernie
Elly at Fernie
Adam and Matt at Fernie
Becky and Matt at Castle
Elly hugging powder at Castle
A snow storm blew up on our way back to Pincher Creek
Scenery on the way back to Banff
Wednesday 26th I went dog sledding! It was so much fun. Becky, Adam, Elly, myself and a bunch of others from our resort went (it was a trip Employee Services organised for us). Elly and I were in the same sled and we got to drive it. We got a run down of the breeds of the sled dogs before we headed off and interestingly enough Husky's aren't used normally as all the 'work' has been bred out of them in search of their pretty looks. We had a guide with us so had a team of eight. Our leads were called Ofire and Lady. Behind them were Tsunami and her partner whose name I can't remember, then Trixie and Cracken, and finally Cyclone and Baloo. Kraken was my favourite as soon as I saw him so I was really happy when I found out he was on our sled. It was so nice to be near a dog again!
Kraken and I
Dog sledding group
Today we were meant to have a bonfire night with hot chocolate and marshmallows but it's been moved to tomorrow as today we had an avalanche on the Dive and all the trail crew members were there, and not setting up the fire-totally understandable. So next time I'll tell you all about that.
