Peace,
Molly & Samantha
Our hallway inside Grizzly dorm.
The steps on the outside of our dorm. Samantha is standing with Harrison, another Room Attendent we met on our first day.
He he he :)
Snow! There is still tons of snow here but it can be quite warm during the day!
Samantha walking back from the lower falls with some other RAs we met.
That black dot in the distance (on the biggest patch of snow) is a bear, or at least we think it is. There also appeared to be wolves or coyotes surrounding it. They were on the other side of the canyon so this picture is zoomed in over a mile.
Our first glimse of the Lower Falls.
Bison!!! We had just come from an orientation that told us to stay 300 feet away, but on our walk to the Lower Falls we had no choice but to pass 2 of them at close range: they were right next to the road!
Some of the cabins in Cascade Circle (or "C" area).
After dinner on our first day at Canyon we took a walk around the area with some new friends. Apparently some of the cabins were deemed unlivable and condemed to a firey death. They were still burning as we walked around (we're not sure why the burning wasn't being supervised).
Our closet space: Samantha on the left, Molly on the right (Molly's bottom drawer doesn't close unles you kick it really hard...we think the room tilts).
Our dorm room! We live in Grizzly dorm, which is the over 21 dorm. The under 21 dorm (or the junior dorm as Grizzlies call it) is called Bison. Then there is the managers' dorm called Bighorn and the maintenence staff dorm called Wapiti.
A quick look at Mammoth Hot Springs. We only got to see it briefly from the bus window :( We'll go back eventually.
Gardiner, a truely old-west looking town. It has saloons and everything. (And about 5 motels next to each other on the same strip!)
Roosevelt Arch in Gardiner: it frames the North entrance to the park.
One of the awesome old yellow buses that Yellowstone uses for tours. They were built in the 1930s, retired in the 1960s, and in 2007 eight of them were restored and are running now.
The human resources sign up close. This is where tour buses are parked.
The uniform room where we got our Room Attendent (RA) shirts. They offered us grey work pants but they were about as attractive as prison garb and they didn't fit either of us correctly. We are allowed to wear our own jeans so we quickly declined the offer!
Us with our employee I.D. cards!
Human Resources in Gardiner, Montana (right at the border into Yellowstone and Wyoming). It was in the middle of nowhere, all you could see around it was mountains. The town of Gardiner looks like Russia...as in desolate.
Enjoing granola bars! We were starving--thank you Sr. Cindy!!! Later they gave us cheese sticks and ritz crackers because we were running late for lunch and hadn't eaten all day!
Our bus driver named Len; he was really funny. The bus was 30 years old, and we had to sit in the back with our luggage because there wasn't enough room underneath. Let's just say it was challenging to hold on to luggage with wheels while the bus whipped along sharp mountain roads.
Waiting for the Yellowstone bus at the Bozeman Greyhound station over an hour before we had to be there! It was 28 degrees and the bus station wasn't open!!! But we weren't the only ones wanting to get there outrageously early, because we were joined by fellow employees in a few minutes.
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