Yesterday morning we woke up to snow! They had predicted some on the Valley floor, and much more in the hills off course, but hey, they said that before and nothing came from it so I didn’t really believe it would.

Sure enough we had a thin dusting and it even snowed some more off and on over the morning. The temperature rose too though so it all melted pretty fast to a soggy mess.
James quickly tried to snap some pictures only to find out that the battery went dead after making only one! Great! One of these days we’ll get us a second one (if only they weren’t so ridiculously pricy!). Fortunately his Blackberry makes fairly decent ones if you don’t need to zoom in to much; the colors were a little off though.

                 

Merlin slept through all of it.

We forgot to bring the awning in the night before so it started to sag under the weight of the snow! All these things you have to think about! James went out to freeze his butt off by knocking the snow down and bringing the awning in while I made a sunday morning 'grand slam' to warm him up when he came back!

We also got some great news this week.

Since our plan is to go to Alaska this summer we had started to look for a workamping position since after Christmas.
On Monday we got a phone call from a hotel near the Denali Park in Alaska that saw our resume on Workampers.com and wanted to know if we would be interested in helping them over the summer.
In return for 60 hours a month, split however we want between the 2 of us, we get a free sight plus utilities and a $500 bonus if we stay for 3 months!
They need us for the office /front desk, driving a shuttle to the Park entrance and maybe some maintenance work. If we want we can work more for $10/hr but we’re not required to. They’ve hired one more couple.

Well, 60 hrs a month comes to only 7.5 per person per week, the work seems quite easy, the people sounded very nice and claim to be easy and laid back, the hotel is apparently a little away from the hectic of the park in a quiet and rural area and we’re right in the middle of the most beautiful nature in Alaska. Seems like a no brainer to me!

Alaska, here we come! (and yes, we will all sign a carefully detailed contract!)
It’s nice to have a place secured so we don’t have to worry about it anymore. So far we haven’t had any problems getting a job, something we weren’t completely sure about when we started this RV-adventure but it has worked out fine so far.

Now it became a lot more ‘real’ I immediately spent a couple of hours on the web to find out what we should see while we’re up there!

 

I also crossed off another item I had to do off my list this week. I’m on a roll here!

I bought a ticket to Holland for February where I’m going to visit my family and attend the wedding of my oldest niece in the meantime!
I’m excited to go, only a couple of weeks left! I’ll fly out of Portland on the 7^th and will come back on the 22^nd.  I fly with KLM, the Dutch Royal Airlines, which I really like and it is a direct flight so no layovers and hanging around for hours on an airport somewhere.
It’s insanely expensive these days to fly but there’s no alternative so what do you do? At least I earned the money for it myself this time by working for Doug so I feel a little less guilty to spend so much.

James is staying here and will finish the job at his brother and take care of the animals while I’m gone. I wish we both could go but we just cannot afford 2 tickets and still have enough for our drive to Alaska this spring. Oh well, we’ll survive!

Talking about work, he tiled the top of the outside kitchen-counters with help from Doug this Saturday. Very pretty!