The Holidays at Yellowstone 12/2019-01/2020

Uncle Sam taught me many valuable lessons b.c. (before children). One that's served me well is: everyday someone is working, even holidays. Regardless of the sentimental or traditional attachment to any given day, someone is always working. In fact, from 2006 through 2017 I missed spending most of those holidays with my kids, because I was working. 

And signing up for *Winter in Wonderland* I knew I'd be spending the holidays away from my kids and all of my loved ones. It's not been a cake walk for me or many of my coworkers. But Xanterra (my current employer) has been on point with providing us with activites (and subsequently camaraderie) to help us fill in the gaps that come with being far from home:

12/18/2019 Decorating Christmas ornaments in the lobby of Paintbrush Dorm👌

🙋‍♀️My handiwork

 Hot cocoa and cookies☕🍪

12/20/2019 Decorating Cookies at the Employee Pub. I made this one and left it for those brave enough/with the constitution to consume massive amounts of sugar (I had too much, actually overdosed on cocoa & cookies on the 18th)

 12/24/2019

Making/decorating jars of hot cocoa at Paintbrush while "Elf" was playing in the background

 Visit with the Big Guy🎅

12/25/2019 Feliz Navidad! Came home after work to find this at my door!

12/28/2019 I spy with my little eye ❣Venus next to the 🌙moon, high in the sky!

12/29/2019 Shopping trip to West Yellowstone.

 The ride back to Old Faithful!

1/6/2020 Epiphany, Three Kings Day, Día De Los Reyes Magos

Back at Old Faithful: 12/10/19-12/15/19

Shannon came to see Kyle, Sho and I off🥰

Check out our transportation: snow coach!

Bison...

...Bison...

...and more Bison!

Snow Blowing next to the Snow Lodge.

The Visitor Center

Old Faithful!

🎶it's beginning to look alot like Christmas🎶

Return to Yellowstone: 12/6/19-12/8/19

EnRoute to Gardiner

Uniforms!

After a day of training/work, the Housekeeping Manager at Mammoth Hot  Springs Hotel (Shannon, my 1st Housekeeping Trainer last season) took Kyle and I for a ride to Lamar Valley.

What a surprise to see a Wolf Pack crossing the road!

It was a treat to train at the Mammoth Hotel, as well as work during the preChristmas celebration🎄🎅

3 more weeks in soFL

Baby Boy🥰

Check out the local wildlife: iguana waiting, at the intersection🦎 They are everywhere

                            
                            

Bullet Holes!😟

Sightseeing in Hollywood, came across this  mural: Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo.

Hanging out with my cousin Derek at Jimmy Buffet's Landshark/Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort. 

30 days

tranquil, calm and quiet
#HollywoodFlorida