Grouse Mountain

Yesterday we had our first day of work which was basically an overview of the running the mountain and today we started our actual training. We arrive at the base of the mountain and catch a skyride tram 1100m up to the ski fields. The two days we've been up there it has been so clear and incredibly scenic, but we hear it's often foggy so I guess we've been lucky.

The actual resort itself is so cute and I guess it looks just like you would expect a north american ski field would at Christmas.

For Christmas there is a Santa's workshop with Santa and elves, ice skating, a theatre showing Christmas movies, reindeer, Christmas themed coffees at starbucks, and so many fun decorations.

The company seems pretty cool to work for. Everyone in our department seems quite fun. It's pretty cool that we get trained for a whole week, I'm sure the most training I've had for a job is a day, so we should know what we're doing by the time we actually start. Today we had a tour of the peak with snowshoes (those things that look like tennis rackets) and tomorrow we start the day with an hour or two of snowboarding. Eek! I hope we (mainly I(Sara)) don't hold everyone up too much. A couple of people have only done it a couple of times before but they use much more technical lingo than we do so I think they must be a lot more advanced.

So it seems like our job will be pretty fun and fairly laid back. We will be making the most of our discounts and free passes. It seems like even if you never learnt to ski or snowboard you could still have heaps of fun over the season because there's so much to do.