Apologies for the super lateness of these posts. I have spent just about all my energy and every ounce of hard work the past 2 days preparing for the largest exclusive catering event Seven Peaks has ever done. 25 hours (10 yesterday, 15 today), it is all done and I am actually pretty content. Things went great. We did not get the 5000 we expected, the number was more around 2500-3000, but that worked out great because we are not equipped to handle 5000 with catering. I don't think I said much about this catering, so I'll briefly explain it. Nuskin was coming and they were bringing up to 5000 people. They purchased the highest catering we offer, which is unlimited hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, pulled pork sandwiches, drink and all the snacks we offer (pretzels, nachos, fries, etc...) So, we had to order an entire semi of food and had to leave the refrigerated semi trailer at the park to store all the food there was sooo much. We spent the last week planning for it and coming up with as many time saving methods as we could. Yesterday our food arrived and we began moving it where it needed to be. In all, myself, another supervisor and the food manager moved close to 1.5 or 2 tons of food. That's 3-4 THOUSAND pounds of food! That number seems low...but either way, it was a lot of food. Today, the food manager had to go to a golf tournament sponsored by our food supplier, so I took charge of preparing for the catering. We still had a checklist a mile long and only 5 employees (high schools started this week here) to do it all with. Thankfully, 4 of those employees were exceptional workers (3 were supervisors, myself included). We thawed out thousands of chicken breasts and a stink load of pulled pork and did all sorts of work. We were impressed with ourselves. If you had come in at 8 am when we had this morning and saw we were about a day behind where we needed to be and only had 8 hours before the event began and you had to have everything cooking or cooked, you would have thought it was impossible. But, we did it.

I would love to go into detail about how much fun we had moving food around. We used a john deer gator and stacked food high and did all sorts of hilarious and fun things...but you really had to be there. I do, however, want to say one thing. Since I became half deaf temporarily in my right ear, I've had trouble hearing people talk to me from that side. So, my natural reaction was to say "huh?" a lot. Well, that kind of evolved into what is now the funniest inside joke ever. I say "huh" a lot when people are talking to me...occasionally even when I hear them. I say it in a bit of a raised voice with a bit of a pitch raise. I also say it more like "heh". It's another thing you kind of have to be there for, but at times it is the funniest thing. I do it mostly because it has melted away all the frustration I had over being deaf. Plus it just makes work so much more fun. The employees can't stop laughing. It's a hoot. I can even use it to get people's attention. I'll call their name and they won't respond, so I just say "heh" and they immediately turn. Anywho...

Now that this ginormous catering is over, things will slow down massively at Seven Peaks. Tomorrow I'm going in early to help finish cleaning up from today. We got a lot done, but there is still tons to clean. Then I'm supervising a small exclusive without catering tomorrow afternoon. Then I'm off work until next week as I head up to Wyoming on Friday!