In a word... daily life on the ranch is pretty fantastic. The work is long - sometimes 10 or 11 hours on my feet - but I get to work with amazing people, all of whom I'm friends with, and because I mainly work in the dining room I get to interact with the guests. Mountain Sky is unique in the sense that it not only allows but encourages its staff to talk with the guests, share your background, and get to know them. There's a bar connected to the dining room in which both staff and guests drink, mingle, share travel stories, and dance the two-step.
My job involves all the processes of eating. Setting up and preparing the dining room for meals, serving the food, and then clean up after meals and begin the preparation for the next meal. Sometimes it feels that all the guests do is eat because I am constantly in the kitchen or dining room. But regardless of the long hours, it's incredibly difficult to dread going to work. Chefy (the head chef) said as long as things are done properly and efficiently, the kitchen is the best place to work on the ranch. And I would have to agree. In between meals we dance and sing as Eye of the Tiger or Adele blares in the background, and we get to sample just about everything that exits the kitchen. With some of the best chefs in the business cooking 5 or 8 course meals, this is quite the perk. There's also and strong sense of unity and teamwork. We all have our own duties and roles, but everybody helps each other out so that everyone can leave at the same time.
After work, if there are a lot of guests hanging out, we'll usually go hang out at the bar and do some dancing. On quieter nights we tend to migrate towards the hot tub, beer cans in tow. Every so often nights are dispersed with guitar/ukelele jam sessions, beer pong, hatchet throwing, star gazing, and intensely competitive games of pool. Everyone here also loves to be active, so games of tennis, soccer, basketball and volleyball are common, and if you have a day off you will most likely go hiking or fishing. Basically, you have to try to not have a good time. I wouldn't trade my unconventional life for the world.
My job involves all the processes of eating. Setting up and preparing the dining room for meals, serving the food, and then clean up after meals and begin the preparation for the next meal. Sometimes it feels that all the guests do is eat because I am constantly in the kitchen or dining room. But regardless of the long hours, it's incredibly difficult to dread going to work. Chefy (the head chef) said as long as things are done properly and efficiently, the kitchen is the best place to work on the ranch. And I would have to agree. In between meals we dance and sing as Eye of the Tiger or Adele blares in the background, and we get to sample just about everything that exits the kitchen. With some of the best chefs in the business cooking 5 or 8 course meals, this is quite the perk. There's also and strong sense of unity and teamwork. We all have our own duties and roles, but everybody helps each other out so that everyone can leave at the same time.
After work, if there are a lot of guests hanging out, we'll usually go hang out at the bar and do some dancing. On quieter nights we tend to migrate towards the hot tub, beer cans in tow. Every so often nights are dispersed with guitar/ukelele jam sessions, beer pong, hatchet throwing, star gazing, and intensely competitive games of pool. Everyone here also loves to be active, so games of tennis, soccer, basketball and volleyball are common, and if you have a day off you will most likely go hiking or fishing. Basically, you have to try to not have a good time. I wouldn't trade my unconventional life for the world.
"Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant
and broken the monotony of a decorous age."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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