Town & snow.

We walked into town today after the last bit of training. It's about 45 minutes down & up, though I bet I could go a bit faster. Some of the other new staff aren't as ready for the mountains. We wandered the street (really, there's pretty much just one main street) and met up with the senior staff for hot chocolate. This was no Swiss Miss crap, let me tell you. Delicious.

Our sole African left today, and the Dane is leaving within the week. He's starting to get squirrely, teasing everyone and spending extra time around us, even though he's the center manager and has plenty to do. Everyone else is coming together well as a group. We had our new staff initiation right after the hot chocolate, and I think it will be a fun three months. We're already picking up each other's accents and vocabulary.

The Finn and I stayed out late skibocking this evening. The other new staff gave up on their toboggans, so we wound up sitting on the skibocks atop the hill, getting to know each other and staring at Adelboden town across the valley. The snow we'd been getting all day cleared a bit during the walk back from town, then again while we skibocked, so we got a great view.

I've got the next two days off, along with the Finn and one of the Aussies. We're going to the back side of the mountains to ski all day. They've got night sledging on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so we'll do that after a quick dinner, and then probably go out on the town before getting up again Thursday for some more skiing. I did take pictures today and yesterday, but it's past bedtime and I want to be refreshed for tomorrow. We got about 15 cm of fresh snow today, and if it keeps snowing all night, I'm going to need my wits about me to negotiate all the powder.