Summer at Panorama

Having a BBQ - our house is the building in the back right

The beautiful road to Panorama

We've been back at Panorama for almost 2 months now and barely recognise the place. It is amazing how the place transforms from a winter wonderland to a gorgeous, green, vibrant landscape full of wildlife! We have seen crazy mama deers and their babies, black bears, moose, elk, coyote, squirrels and Aaron has seen a grizzly too!

Hiking up Mile One

I started work at Wildfire two weeks ago and it has been pretty quiet. I hope it picks up because its super boring and your shift really drags out. I have picked up a new job down in Invermere and love it. It is at Blue Dog Cafe and I started there at the end of May. We make all kinds of things! Salad dressings, brownies, nanaimo bars (Canadian thing which I am SOO bringing to Australia!), falafels, lentil burgers, soups you name it! I have started opening shop a few days a week by myself so I get to cook the soup and get the special of the day ready. Last week I started getting trained as the cook too which is so fun! I am super slow and not very good at managing my orders yet but I am cooking tomorrow for the third time so hopefully I get it sooner rather than later :) As much as I love it, it is a bit exhausting as I am full time at both places and have been working double shifts most days. I have my days off with Aaron so thats all that counts :)

At the beach in Invermere

Aaron's enjoying the warmer weather. He suffered nerve damage in his toes from the cold winter but he's got his feeling back now which is a relief! He's job in the Summer is pretty much landscaping so mowing, mulching, upkeeping garden beds, keeping the resort clean and so on.. So he is getting quite the tan while I am still looking like a winter bunny..

In Invermere at 10:30pm (my work is the yellow building on the right)

We have moved into the Horsethief accomodation for the Summer which is a studio. It is now because we are by ourselves now. We recently had to move from our first Horsethief studio because Aaron blew the stove up and nearly bloody killed himself! The main breaker blew up so we had no power and no stove. So now we are in a new place... Its ok but I miss my little friend Gerry the Gopher.. He lived outside our old place and would come up and say hello all the time. :(

Aaron and I enjoying the twilight views in Invermere

There's a few activities on the to do list for the Summer at Panorama. There's white water rafting, horse riding and down hill mountain bike riding. I am a little nervous about the biking. It reminds me of home though seeing all the guys with their bmx gear on and having mud all over them except where their goggles were. Aaron and I are going to give it a go maybe once or twice as it is a bit expensive to hire out the bike and the protective gear (which I plan on having from head to toe!)
We have tried to squeeze in for some white water rafting and horse riding but they have been fully booked so we will keep trying..
It's definitely busier in town in the Summer because all the rich people come to their holiday homes with their boats, bikes, etc and bike up and down the mountain, go hiking and water skiing. We are always slammed at Blue Dog Cafe but Panorama is much quieter.
I went for a hike up the mountain a couple weeks ago with Hannah. It took us 35 mins just to get up the Mile One, which is the first run. It only took us about 4-6 mins to snowboard down that run in the winter!

Resting on the chair after hiking up the Mile One