Sunday, May 11, 2014

Krista's Wedding (from last summer...)

I realized I never posted pictures from Dave's sister's wedding at Lake Tahoe last summer! Here are a few...it's so pretty up there! It looks like a beautiful day, but it was actually really cold! We drove through snow the day before on the way up to Tahoe.

Pretty cake, pretty view :)

The bride and her dad

I love that they picked Tahoe!

...and Dave and me

Friday, May 9, 2014

New Job :) ...pictures will come soon!

I interviewed for the Park Interpreter job at Washoe Lake State Park last Thursday morning in Carson City, and on Friday afternoon, I got a call from Jenny (the supervisor there) and she offered me the job! Of course I said yes and she wanted me to start right away because very soon she will be going on maternity leave and I need to know a LOT before she leaves. Dave and I were eating lunch in Gardnerville after we walked around the Cowboy Poetry festival in Genoa at Mormon Station. I looked at my phone, saw it was Jenny, and couldn't decide if I really wanted to answer the phone! Dave's like, "What are you doing? Answer it!!!"

I am going back and forth doing both jobs until the 20th--which will be my last day at Fort Churchill! So I'm trying to make it as easy on both of them as I can, which is hard, but I am leading a hike on Sunday at Fort Churchill, then doing a park tour on the 15th (for the administrator, the deputy administrator, and the new accountant at the Division office), and helping with a school group that's bringing 140 kids to the park! Other days I will be at Washoe Lake learning as much as I can!

Thursday (yesterday) was my first day at Washoe with Jenny and it was awesome! Crazy, busy, confusing...and I had to leave for an hour for my school visit in Carson City--I did a talk about Fort Churchill for 90 4th graders in one classroom--then I went back to Washoe until 5:30 and headed home!

Jenny had to meet with the region manager, so for the morning, I wrote receipts and filled out forms for the group use area reservations for her three group use areas, went through the park library, and started reading the park's Master Plan. She manages two parks; the second park is Dayton State Park, in Dayton, NV. It's a much smaller park with a campground, trails to a historic mill site, and a group use area.

The second half of the day she showed me how they do deposits. While she was doing the deposit, the phone did not stop ringing--with a lot of crazy questions I couldn't answer yet--and other employees came in and out for various things. I can already see that it's going to be crazy, but it looks like it will be a lot of fun and seems like a very positive, energetic environment! Of course, I will miss Fort Churchill and all the people there, but I'm very excited for the new job!

Wish me luck :)