So… It’s been a while I know. After spending a week at Lindsay’s in Bolton just outside Toronto I’m back at the woods. This week has been a staff training week. We were to learn how to ski, cross country ski, snow shoe and tubing. But due to the mild weather there has been a lack of snow so it’s not been too successful. It did snow a wee bit but apparently not the right kind of snow. We did get to cross country ski and snow shoe now if you are ever asked to go snow shoeing kindly decline as it is not fun!! Although it is a good work out. Cross country skiing will be more fun on slipper packed snow, this week it was like walking with ski’s on! The snow we did have has melted so we are back to running our fall activities like the zip line etc until we get ‘proper’ snow. I have to say I’m very thankful for my snow trousers for all the hours this week I’ve been out in the snow I’ve been very warm.
All the staff have been spilt into 4 teams this season to work our nights & weekends I’ve been asked to lead one of these teams which is cool and great to be given some more responsibility. We were all given bandanas for the colours of our teams and team building challenges so there has been a lot of fun banter and competition amongst the teams- “Go team blue!”
My accommodation has remained the same, my roommate is getting married at the end of the month so its pretty sweet that I get my own room. Plus been invited to her wedding so I get a wee weekend in Toronto. Been trying to continue my routine of going to the gym every morning before work which has gone well apart from one morning. A lot of the staff have come back wanting to get fit. I arrive into the gym on Monday morning to find 6 people thankfully by Thursday it died down to 3. Thought for awhile I was going to have to get up even earlier!
My friend Tom is back from England some of the regular readers will remember that he was pretty much deported when he forgot to extend his work permit on time. It’s nice to have someone else around for people to make fun of their accent and for me to have someone that understands what a bin is, or who knows that when I ask for chips that I actually mean fries and to have someone else who is not used to surviving in freezing weather.
Here’s to scoring a free globe, playing love your neighbour in the snow, to catching 6 mice, finding out that there are skunks under our house!, finally finding extreme uno and getting people addicted to it! And to playing snow volley ball.
The picture is of my current location in the Muskoka Woods shop (It’s not been very busy hence the update!) Put on purely because I feel that blogs with pictures are better. Also the fact that I know that
Emma will nearly be throwing up in jealously at the sight of any pciture of Muskoka Woods!
On Monday mornings when no kids are here we are given work projects which are to last all morning so we always take our time. Tom and I were given the quickest jobs so a lot of time wasting was done including... We had to walk down and check that the boat house was clean. As we approach the lake we see that someone had walked over the frozen lake. So we decided it might be a good idea to follow the footprints and walk across the lake to the boat house. I was very carefully walking on the original footprints were as Tom decided to be slightly more adventurous and walked out towards the middle of the lake were all of a sudden there was a huge sound of ice cracking and tom running back towards me. Deciding it was better to keep going we stuck to the current prints very close to the shore. The thing was if Tom had of gone through the ice I dont know what I could of done about it and I was laughing very hard at his reaction!
