Yo Beaver, Where U At?

Today was a thrilling day of training. It's been awhile since I've had to sit for a "class". Today was all basic stuff because we were educated on certain safety aspects, locations of places throughout the park and how to handle questions from customers. It was nice information to have, I suppose. The safety stuff was a little redundant because it's all the same stuff we've been taught at previous jobs and chemistry class from high school (QUICK, TO THE EYEWASH STATION!).


We took quite a few breaks, but were still finished by about 3:45. The guy I am rooming with at the moment, Darren, and another Guest Service Agent (Charissa) and I all decided we were going to head out for a hike since the weather was quite gorgeous. We ended up deciding on Beaver Pond Trail, which is actually right behind our dorm. It's about a 5 mile loop trail. We had to kind of hurry in order to be back for dinner, which was over at 6:30. This was very important -- more on that later. I wasn't too hip at the time of going to that trail, but it turned out being pretty cool. Beavers are apparently active there during the late afternoon. I hate to break it to you, my readers, that we only saw ducks. Oh well, it was good scenery.


I can hear you guys asking now, "Mark, why is dinner so important?" Let me say this: Employee Appreciation Day. That's right, they went from Grade C cafeteria food to Grade B. Thank you Xanterra! Some chicken breast, which was good, fried green beans, not so good, and an amazing chunk of choclate cake. Healthy.


I've got a little bit of "homework" to do tonight. It's just a few pages of reading, so it shouldn't be too strenuous at all. I'm about to get started on that, then I think we're going to head down to the Pub. Again, not much to do here after dark.

Here are some photos from the day. I'm still working on my formatting. I'm not too good yet. Jake seems to have figured out the formatting and designing. Props to him. More to come later.