7th-8th May

Today, we were fetched by the YNP shuttle bus to Yellowstone early morning. We registered at the office located at North part of YNP. It took about two hours ride to the office and we had our procedure done and got our uniform there. Then we went south to our assigned village. On the way, we dropped at "mammoth" village to have lunch.

I'm working in "old faithful village" of yellowstone national park. The place is famous with geysers and hot springs. We reached there at about 3pm and were told that we will start working in the next day. So we walked around to explore the attractions. We saw many people waiting at the "old faithful" geyser. It was so lucky for us that we watched the very first eruption of geyser in Yellowstone. The scenery was gorgeous. Water burst very high up into the sky. After the geyser show, we went to explore other geysers and springs. Strong wind blew upon us and we feel very cold as we were only wearing t-shirt and thin sweater.
When we were visiting this visitor center, it began to rain. Surprisingly, the rain slowly changes to snow. It became extremely cold that we couldn't stop shivering. We had no choice but walked back to our hostel under the heavy snow. Wow...i don't know if it is lucky or not. We experienced snow falling in the very first day we reach here. The weather is just too extreme. Luckily, we still survived under the heavy snow...phew~ but it gave us a lesson. We started to understand the importance of umbrella and wind sweater.

Oh let’s talk about the dormitory. We were told that there was no any empty room in this week. So we got different room. Jiayen and I were so unlucky. Our rooms are triple sharing one and they are so messy and dirty. Fortunately baojing got a double room and her room is clean and nice. I moved my stuffs into her room and share a bed with her.

The next day at around 7.30am, we started our job as server assistant. It was training day. We were separated into two teams which are team A and team B. Both teams serve each other for breakfast. Jiayen and I were in A team while baojing was in B team. I had a buffet breakfast and paid with a fake credit card given by boss. For the dinner, I got 7 bucks tips in 3 hours, and I ordered the most expensive dish(31 bucks) in the menu when it was my turn to have dinner. I ate a half-cooked bison (a cow-like animal). It tasted not bad, but pretty hard to bite.

Photos were uploaded in facebook.
jiayen’s blog : http://jiayen87.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!6A71E94C2F407BB1!655.entry

To be continued…