Before we go any further, I need to tell you all about my new nickname at work. One of my bosses, the assistant general manager actually, is telling everyone that I am the 'sex kitten' of Jenny Lake Lodge. Hold on, I had to pause for a few seconds because I was laughing too hard at the previous sentence to continue typing.
But seriously. Sex kitten. Let me set the scene for you. It all started on Tuesday night, my first real day of actual work. Ross, a bellman here, and I were working the afternoon/evening shift. We were both at the front desk when a man walked in and asked how much it cost for a night at Jenny. I gave him one of our pamphlets with the nightly rates for Jenny and the rest of the lodges in the park and as I finished explaining the pamphlet, the man asked where our bathroom was and I "Vanna White" gestured (we're not allowed to point here) towards our lobby bathrooms. The guy turns to walk to the bathroom and it becomes abundantly clear that he is not wearing underwear. His jeans were pulled down far enough that I'm still not sure if he was mooning us on purpose. Half of me thinks there was someone somewhere close by videotaping our reactions as we were mooned by a stranger at work. Anyway, Kutcher did not jump out from behind a tree to tell us we were punked, so Ross and I avoided eye contact until the guy was out of earshot. Ross summed up the situation perfectly when he said, "I think that is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me here". When the guy came out of the bathroom he stated that he "had the money [for a room], but didn't feel like spending it" and he left. I think he was using the 'how much is a room' question as an excuse to use our bathroom--I mean, I wouldn't have turned him away if he had just asked, but there was no way for him to know that.
Skip Wednesday and fast forward to this morning. I was scheduled for morning shift at the front desk and sometime around 7 or 8 AM, I look out the window and see one of our guests, walking up to the lodge in his bathrobe. He opens the front door and his first words are, "Usually I wear clothes". He and his wife had accidently locked themselves out of their cabin and he needed a new key so they could get back in. I gave him 2 keys so they could enter their room and they came back to breakfast fully dressed and laughing about it. So I am the sex kitten of Jenny Lake Lodge because people don't seem to wear pants when I'm working. This is my life. Hilarious.
I finally met some of the members of my ministry team last Friday and they were great. They seem like really nice people and the ministry team seems like a cool thing to be a part of, but I actually might be scaling down my time with them. I could be moving to only part time ministry team member, or I might not even participate in the team. I still love Jesus, don't worry. The thing is, it's a huge hassle for me to be on the team. I don't have a vehicle here so someone always has to come and pick me up at Jenny and then drop me back off. That's at least an hour drive for everyone else on the team because most of them are stationed on the same resort. Plus, I'm scheduled to work on Sundays as a reservationist. Because I'm part of the ministry team, I was supposed to have Sundays off, but Scott, the general manager at Jenny, scheduled me to work on Sundays because the full-time reservationist gets Sundays and Mondays off. I was pretty frustrated when I found out, but then I thought about it, and I think I actually prefer what has happened. I'll be able to form great relationships with my co-workers because I'll be at Jenny more often, I won't be pulled in 2 different directions with 2 full time jobs, and I'll still be able to participate in the ministry when I'm not working and it's taking place at Jenny. I'm needed more at Jenny than I am on the team. The team has at least 20 people on it to hold services throughout the park which is more than enough. Jenny only has 53 employees for the entire resort. I'm needed more at my job than I am in the ministry. I'm still working out the kinks with the ministry support team so I'll let you know what's happening as soon as I figure it out.
My co-workers are amazing. I am super excited to be here and to know I have the whole summer to enjoy this experience. A few of the front desk guys and I went on a hike the other day, and we've been hanging out every day that we've been here. The staff here has a bonfire pretty much every night. There's actually a lot of drinking that happens here. I was joking the other day and said, 'If we're not working, we're drinking" and that's pretty much true. And because of the altitude, you get drunk a lot quicker and on less alcohol than you would at lower altitudes. There have been some sloppy drunks over the last few nights because they were drinking at their lower altitude tolerance, not at moutain tolerance (not yours truly, because I'm classy).
Pictures have been uploaded to my Facebook and emailed to some people. If you missed them, send me an email and I can send them to you. I made kind of a huge mistake at work today so that sucked and there was a day last week during training that I wanted to come home. I was totally ready to make up a relative just to kill them off and claim I couldn't come back to Jenny after I came to Ohio in July for a wedding. I burst into tears in front of my boss (yep, super classy lol). But now I'm happy here. I think I needed to that breakdown out of my system, and then I just settled in and now I love it. It would be a pretty sweet place to work every summer. By the way Ohio, it's snowed here every day except for one this past week. I hear it's a balmy, comfortable 90 degrees and higher in your neck of the woods. So enjoy that.
Teton fun fact: Harrison Ford, Sandra Bullock, and Clint Eastwood have houses in Jackson, Wyoming.
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