2014 Mountain Hosting at Brighton

I worked the season at Brighton Ski Resort as a Mountain Host for 20 days. Spock is the boss and I was able to get on the team because of his contact with Melissa who manages the Bonneville Elementary Ski Program. My daily assignment includes greeting people at the ticket window, helping people fill out rental papers in the rental shop, helping ski school kids get on the Explorer lift, and skiing with the intent of making sure guests are enjoying themselves. It's a minimal wage job for which I am paid a season pass.

My skis and boots were stolen from our garage and I was able to replace them at the Brighton rental shop.

Melissa and Mindy skied one day with me. Great fun.

2014-02-22 Play practice/ Gymnastics/ Birthday lunch/ Basketball/ Progressive dinner

Saturday was an unusually busy day starting with a chance to see a dress rehearsal for Benjamin playing King Triton in the Little Mermaid at Clayton. We'll be in Israel when the actual performances occur and we're sorry to miss it. The dress rehearsal gave us an idea of the scope and role for Benjamin, a main character. The scenery and costumes are amazing.

 We raced to Park City to see 3 of Elizabeth's 4 events at a level 7 gymnastics meet. She placed 2nd in each event and 1st overall. Consistency was her strength.

 Following  the meet we went to Little America for lunch with Louise, LaRue, Becky Stauffer Jefferies, and Janet to celebrated their birthdays. I made a quick trip to Stone Ground Bakery to pick up the rolls for the ward progressive dinner. We rushed home to prepare for the dinner and then went to watch Will and Jack's teams play against each other. Lone Peak won, but both cousins played hard, often guarding each other.

Paula was the organizer for the progressive dinner which turned out great for the 90 or so who participated.

2014-01 Hawaii

 We spent 9 days in Kauai and Maui with Bonnie and Henry Yeates. In Kauai we stayed at Nancy and Jeff's condo in Koloa Landing and enjoyed some boogie boarding, sunshine, and biking. We also spent a morning on a boat Jeff arranged with friend, Aaron, with whom Jeff does Crossfit training. Aaron's step son dove off a cliff impressing us all.
Jeff continues to labor to sell units.
We flew to Maui with the Yeates and spent time seeing the sights and boogie boarding. I had a swimsuit 'incident' at the beach during a very high surf time. We drove to the north end of the island to watch as experienced surfers rode 40 foot waves.