Alaska #10

1. I leave for Anchorage in a week and a day! I shouldn't be so excited, but I get to go to Skagway and everyone here is super grumpy.

2. In Alaska it can't just be cold. It has to be cold plus have wind that will go straight through your clothes and turn your blood to ice as soon as you are exposed. It had better be at least a little warm in Utah when we get back :).

3. Sarah works nights, so I have this deal with her where she will text me if the lights are out good so I can go see them. It works out quite nicely, since I don't want to be up in the middle of the night looking for lights when I have to work at 6 unless I am actually going to see them.

4. Asking Jessie to pick out books for you to borrow can be a little dangerous. She started out with two, then as we were talking kept saying, "Oh this one's good too!" So I left with five books. Good thing I go through them fast :).

5. Miles and I are in the middle of a silent Check Inn war. I like to have the screen off centered on the computer screen so that you can see Check Inn, Direct Inn, and the weather all at the same time, but he likes it dead center. So we both change it every time we work, and I think we are both driving each other crazy.

6. From being at Jessie's house I am now addicted to the games  Hand and Foot, and  Dutch Blitz. We should definitely add those to our New Years list I think.

7. This is the land of rainbows. The sky is almost never perfectly clear, and you can usually count on at least two rainbows a week. And often they stretch across the entire sky, from mountains to mountains. It's quite impressive. And then the sunrises. All those clouds make them pretty spectacular, and in the rare event that there are no clouds the entire sky turns orange. It's pretty amazing.

8. The new way to say "I am going to give Ashley a ride home" is "I'm going to haul Ash," compliments of Keith. Jessie told him she was going to "drive Ash" and he made fun of her, saying at the mine they usually "haul ash" they don't drive it. Jessie thought that was cute, and so it stuck haha.

9. The problem with working in an uninsulated metal train car; whatever it is outside it's the same inside. So lately when it's been 20 degrees outside, even with the heat on full all night the office is 40 degrees when I come in the morning. It's freaking frigid :).

10. Sometimes girls are pathetic. We have this system that if someone has reservations but gets here late we will leave out their key in an envelope with their name on it taped to the office door. If the key is still there in the morning, we charge the card on file the cancellation fee. So these girls reserved two rooms, and then didn't ever come so we charged the fee. A couple of days later they called and said they came, but it was dark and they didn't want to get out of the car to get the keys. There were six of them. I think they could have managed, but that's just me. We refunded them, but we all couldn't quite believe that they would rather all sleep in their rented van then go 15 feet in the dark to get their room keys.

11. Speaking of sunrises, the one right now is amazing. The middle of the clouds are all purple while the edges are bright pink. And of course I don't have my camera.

12. It has been an adventure and I'm glad I came, but I am also happy to be going home soon.