Land of the Eskimo

I arrived in Sitka Alaska on May 19th and started work the next day! The Island is about the size I had imagined but is COMPLETELY wooded. There are 4 main buildings: The House ;where Phil and Gwen Younger, the owners of Talon Lodge, live. The Lodge; this contains staff lodging on the main floor, a prep area upstairs along with a kitchen, a very large living room with comfy leather couches and a large dinning room with a bar at the end. The Lodge also has an upper deck used when the good weather rolls around and a lower deck which contains a pool table and a larger bar area. The third and fourth buildings are guest lodging. Seth house is the biggest and Clois House sits right behind it. Attached to Seth House is also the "Breeze way" where we keep all the rain gear.

So far we've just been cleaning and prepping the island for guests, we've been kept very busy setting up beds, cleaning windows, walls, floors, bars, rain gear, bathrooms, anything and everything. Stocking the liquor house, taking inventory of EVERYTHING, power washing and staining every single piece of wood that needs it, preparing the dinning area and the prep areas...we've been busy. BUT, that's fine by me, cause there's not much else to do. After are days are over, we usually spend some time around the pool table and kickin back to some tunes.

There's roughly 20 staff members, half of those are on the boats. The other half are the four girls; Myself, Jena (my roommate), Kelsey and Alysha. Kelsey and Jena are our massage therapists.... hopefully I'll get in on some of that action. We also have our two Chefs, David and Baron....they make magic. I will not be surprised if I become a big blimp by the end of the summer. Then there is Dickie who is in charge of us girls and makes sure we always have a task waiting for us :) Phil and Gwen are always around as well. And then there is Tim. Tim is "The Man" and does EVERYTHING on the island. He makes sure everything is always running well, if we have a problem with heating, plumbing, electricity anything... except food... Tim is the man to ask. Other than that the rest of the staff are on the boats.

The view is gorgeous! Its perfectly normal to see eagles swarming at any given moment, which is all new to me! I saw a fin of an Orca yesterday, that was pretty exciting.

Guests start arriving on Wednesday so I'm not sure how much I'll be able to update, the Internet is in and out as well. But keep writing me! I love hearing from everyone! I also put up more pics in my Alaska 2010 album on facebook, check 'em out!