It is beyond entertaining to attempt and explain to friends what our plans for this winter are. We have a few balls up in the air right now and really have to take our schedules week by week. Allow me to entertain you a bit with what our schedules have been made up of the past month or so.
Ball in the Air #1
We will be back up at Snowy Range Ski Area to work through the winter. I'm able to tag team with the Main Marketing Man { unofficial official title } and work hand in hand with him on all things design/marketing. In addition to helping out with day to day plowing/working in the snow cat/misc jobs, Hunter has worked so immensely hard to open up a brewery at the Ski Area! Snowy Range Brewery, or as I like to call it his dirty little mistress, officially opened up mid-season last year. I don't think any of us, as a matter of fact I KNOW that none of us were prepared for the success and positive response to his brewery. The first time we put a keg on to sell it was gone in 45 minutes. The weekend we'd put another one out for sale? Gone in an hour 15. You guys, this beer was flying out of the keg. It was so encouraging seeing people so enthusiastic about the brew, but at the same time it was like OHMOTHEROFPEARLWEARERUNNINGOUTOFBEERTOSELLANDWEARERUNNINGOUTOFITFASSSSST. Solution? More than double our brew capabilities. Simple. ; ) He's started brewing the beginning of November and the goal really is to get AS much beer in kegs as possible before the ski area opens the day after Thanksgiving. We have about 7 beer recipes down, and are looking to add a few more this season!
Hunter accepted a job at a hospital in Denver that will put him {us?} there at least 3 nights a week. We are still figuring out if it makes most sense for me to come down to Denver with him, or stay up at Snowy/Steamboat while he's working. We were lucky enough to be warmly welcomed back by Sara, who we lived part time with last winter in Denver, so we are having slumber parties with her the days/nights that we are in Denver. It's such a blessing because rents in Denver are out-of-control right now and financially and location wise it really is amazing to get to stay with her. Plus? Endless entertainment. She had me almost throwing up with laughter the other night while we were brushing our teeth together. We were loosely talking finances, and she says to me mid-brush "I'm so sick of not being rich. If I was rich I'd be like. Here. Have some chocolate." Something about the hand gesture she did when announcing people can have the chocolates and the absolute randomness of it...man it was one of the best things that had happened to me in a while. It reinforces the fact that there really were missing puzzle pieces in my soul when we were in WA. I'm finding these missing puzzle pieces in afternoon mimosa dates, weekly lunch girly dates, and evening giggle sessions. Without question I left a very large piece of my heart in Washington, but I'm enjoying piecing together those missing puzzle pieces here in CO/WY.
Ball in the Air #3
Steamboat! Steamboat is kinda our happy place. This is where we go to decompress, take all the steam showers, hot tubs, hot springs, juice bars, grilling out time we need. Before the Denver job came up, we were planning on splitting our time 60/40 to Steamboat/Snowy. We still want to get here as often as we can slash when our schedules allow. Because.......well we still like to play around and have fun, and Dreamboat is the place to do just that!
I loved this quote that I saw on Pinterest this morning. It hit so very close to home because is life perfect right now? No. Ideally we'd have our own home. Ideally we would have a little bit of breathing room between Hunter's shifts/working at Snowy etc. Ideally we'd have our closest friends AND family a phone call away from an impromptu dinner party. But is life wonderful? Man alive. I not only feel like the luckiest girl in the world to be living this crazy ping-pong life with Hunter, but I feel like we are defining the word wonderful right now.
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