Life is good.
I am loving my job and living in Alaska. The people are so welcoming and supportive it's like everyone here is family.
Work has been going very well. My day looks something like this: get the lift set up and running for the day, hang out for awhile, go snowboard, bump chairs for guests, go snowboard, make friends with ski school, snowboard, watch people fall down, stay warm in the shack, take down the maze and close up the lift for the night. Pretty great job! Yesterday it was a whopping 5F at the base of the mountain, so I volunteered to sit at the top shack for a couple hours. It can be boring up there because there isn't tons to do, but I was inside where it was warm so there was nothing to complain about. Until I had to go to the bathroom.
Usually the weather here is about the same as in Illinois, at least the temp, but it has been oddly cold the past few days. Yesterday I think we hit 7F and a for the past few days it hasn't gotten over 15F. I've been wearing lots of layers and staying in the lift shacks as much as possible while at work. During the day it doesn't seem so bad, but as soon as the sun goes down it is COLD.
Speaking of the sun, I haven't seen it in . . . . well, I'm not sure how long. It does come up however, just not high enough to get over the mountains. So our sunlight is like a continual dawn/dusk (which makes the mountains look awesome). It does get light enough to seem like day however. The sun comes up around 9:30 and it is dark by 4:30. It's really not as bad as I was expecting. Also, it's almost winter solstice, so once December 21st arrives our days will start getting longer and longer.
Christmas is soon, and it's going to be weird to not be at home with family for it. Dylan and I have the day off of work, so I'm hoping we sit around and watch a Christmas Story over and over. We are talking about having friends over for a Christmas dinner so we will see what comes of that.
I hope everyone at home is doing well, I love to hear from you!
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