I'm Now a Professional Maid

We’ve been practicing our cleaning skillz these past two days and have been “deep cleaning” all the rooms in the hotel. This consists of using our five Chemicals (Yellow-similar to 409, Pink-a stronger version of Yellow, Blue-like windex, Green-like Febreeze, and Ajax) and scrubbing the bath tubs, toilets, sinks, and floors in the bathrooms and dusting all the furniture in the bedrooms with Yellow. We’re also expected to stock the rooms with all the basic amenities of a typical hotel room in addition to YNP brochures and some wildlife themed objects (such as bear shaped soap and a bear stuffed animal for sale at $20! What a great deal…) We cleaned for nearly the whole day, got off around 3:30, then 9 of us walked to the General Store which is probably 2 miles from our dorm. There’s no direct foot path available going directly from our dorms to the store, so we had to walk along the road. There is an incredible view at a place called Fishing Bridge (where you can’t actually fish from) of a wide, calm river of clear water with snowy banks and evergreen trees and mountains in the distance. The General Store is basically an oversized gift shop with a small corner dedicated to groceries and other necessities.

Jillian arrived later that evening and stayed the night in the room. Lake is on her way from Jackson, Wyoming to Gardiner, Montana and she had to do employee check-in the next morning (today), so Lake was a sort of pit stop for her. Around 9:45 we went star gazing with some friends from the dorm. The view of the sky from the lake is incredible! It wasn’t quite late enough to have a really black sky, but there were still a lot more stars visible than I’m used to. We saw the big dipper, two planets (possibly), a few shooting stars and a few satellites. Unfortunately, my star gazing skillz aren’t quite up to snuff like my cleaning skillz, but I’m hoping to practice more over the next few months.

Today was spent in more “deep cleaning” of the hotel rooms. After dinner, I went walking with some other room attendants and a few food servers who just moved in today. We went down the road about three-quarters of a mile to see Lake Lodge and the employee rec. center. I took a few pictures of the view from the lodge. I’ll post them on Picasa because it would be nearly impossible to describe the lake, mountain, and cloud scene.

There’s a common room in my dorm right across the hall from my room where I am now. It’s got great internet access so people tend to congregate here. I’m hoping to do some skyping here too! Who's up for that?