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 Where do I begin, oh I know, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.  The Good - All the people I work with are wonderful, nice and a pleasure to work with.  There are three ladies around my age and then five (two guys) who are probably in there 20's.  Two of the ladies have husbands that work out here and one of the gals is scoping it out so when her husband retires he might come here too.  They all live in the employee RV park.  My manager, Donna, has done this a couple years and her husband runs the campground, super nice people.  She drove me down to Jenny Lake Lodge to HR to get my badge and name tag the first day so I didn't have to take the shuttle.  Next, The Bad - I really have not run into any bad out here, I am thinking it will remain that way.  But,  I am combining a small bad and Ugly in the next sentences.  Remember the girl on the shuttle with me?  Well I think it's her that works in the grocery store connected to the gift shop I work in.  One day I was clocking in and she was sitting there and we started talking, I don't remember about what but we had chatted a few minutes and she pulled down her mask, picked her nose and ate it!  I kid you not.  I thought what the heck?!  Did I just see that!?  Even as I type this, I question that I really saw it, but I did.  That was bad and Ugly.........................She is a really nice gal though :0)

So on to my second day off which was 8/21 I went on a trail ride.  I got the pleasure of partnering up with Miss Kitty



The view is of Mount Moran, which is distinctive because of it's flat top, our guide told us about a plane that crashed into Mount Moran on November 21, 1950 during a snowstorm.  The flight took off from California and was headed to Billings MT, to eventually end up in South America, there were 21 people on board on a missionary flight.  All the people died, including 8 children, 10 adults and 3 pilots who had flown in WWII.  Here is a short article on it:  

https://carynschulenberg.com/2015/11/to-this-day/

Our guide did talk about other things as we went along but I was about 8 horses back and could not here everything so I just  enjoyed the ride with Miss Kitty.  There are two hour rides and one hour rides too choose from, I wanted the two hour but only one hour available, thank goodness as my buttocks is not used to this much saddle time :0/



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