Fall of Godiva'liath

Ok so I suck at trying to keep up with my blogger, but this last week has been so full of humor and adventure that I simply HAVE to record it down before my poor memory kicks in and I forget the hilarious details.

So, back up about a month ago to when our beloved boss Shelby gets fired on the spot (for literally no reason other then the company trying to save a buck) they give her no notice, pay her no vacation or any sort of payout at all...just leave her jobless.

As you might imagine that kind of pissed us off at the store....ALL of us. So we figure if the idiots were so stupid as to fire her 3 weeks before Valentines day (bigger for us then Christmas) we wanted to punish them: hit them where it hurt....their money.

Not petty stealing, we wanted to lose them money legally...

So we all just stay put, act like nothing is amiss make the district manager think everything is hunkydory, then a few days ago on the 11th....MASS WALK OUT BABY!!!!!

Every. Single. Employee

(except gary, but due to personal financial reason, we understood his situation)...other then that, they had NOBODY left for Valentines day weekend. Not enough trained employees in the valley to borrow from other stores (They obviously need them for their own stores for Vday) and not enough time to train anybody new.

So as a united show of defiance (Plus we needed to see the madness and pick up our paystubs) we all met up together outside of the mall and walked into Godiva together. Naturally being the gigantic nerds we all are, we couldnt just go in there looking normal, we thought it would be freaking AWESOME if we wore cheesey fake mustaches and went "Incognito"...Hahahahaha

As we hoped, it was absolute chaos...everyone was running around frantically, there were lines that were taking upwards of an hour to ring up and even longer waits to build custom chocolate boxes and not to mention the girl they got for dipping was gross, wearing no gloves and touching her hair as she dipped....one of our numbers with us (Vicki) actually had a Strawberry order to pick up, but upon seeing the state of the girl dipping and the look of the berries, she got her money back.....here is a picture of her "Elegant striped strawberries"

Wow...

Annnnnd heres my typical wedding berry order....

But it was a total madhouse and work just how we wanted it to, in the end it wont make much of a difference in the company, but to us it meant very much and made us feel good!

Then pink insisted we ended our adventure filled day at BJ's and got mountains of "Happy Fries"...yes....Happy Fries....hahahha

Twas a Good day. :)


Long live Shelba-toast

Black Diamond Jeep Tour

Haha, I called shotgun!

We jumpped onto a back country jeep tour this day and had a BLAST!

it wasn't as wild as we thought it was going to be, but we did have a very drunk very crazy redneck family driving about 3 of the jeeps in our caravan that made the day MORE then interesting!!! The actual guide didn't much car for them, because they were running the jeeps hard (gunning it at potholes, waterholes, all rough areas) and he was getting quite annoyed....we thought they were a hoot and knew they would be from the start when one of the crazy groups gave their jeep the name of "Nickoli likes Vodka" we all had to give our jeeps a name to keep in contact over the radio and know who was talking to whom. So that was our first indication they were going to be a wild bunch... :) After about an hour we get to our final destination and have a bite of dinner (most of the tours end in food, we like that!)

Tour logo
Sweet sweet port-a-john @ dinner site

Once we are all done and fed, we load everyone back up into their designated jeeps and get ready to take off.

The tour guide went back and asked the crazy group to ease up on the jeeps or else something would most likely bust on it. Thinking all was well he got into our jeep and off we went.....

wasn't more then 20 minutes back on the trail the the nutters start going ape on the road again, after multiple attempts to make them stop over the radio, he finally gave up and said he was going to black list them for the tour if they ever tried to take it again (i'm sure this was a one time trip to alaska for them and they wouldn't be too broken up about that...but i decided not to test our drivers patience just then...) anywho not another 10 minutes after his warning but we get a radio call saying we lost one of our numbers behind several miles (we were the lead jeep and needed the back jeeps to let us know if someone went missing)

So after a very tricky turn around on a very precarious patch of trail we make it back to our fallen comrade and lo n behold, the idiot BROKE the jeep!!! in a HUGE waterhole no less!!!
So we had to ghetto latch it onto our jeep and TOW it back to base, on a normal road that isn't much of a problemo, but this was very rough VERY harsh Alaskan terrain and the going was slow and tedious.

our poor tour guide (orange jacket) hooking up the jeep to tow.

If you notice on this last picture how our once in TACT tow cable is now snapped and then TIED back together....that happened along the way and turns out that was the only cable any of the jeeps had, it was surprisingly the rednecks idea to tie it...and go figure, it held!!!

All in all it was a very hilarious end to a very fun day, even if our tour guide wanted to make redneck stew with the various body parts he hacked from the dorks that broke the jeep after multiple warnings, i thought it just gave us all a very good story to tell at the end of our tour!

plus I think they finally learned their lesson to obey the guide after about 3 hours of jeering and ridicule from everyone of us in the other jeeps. hahaha

Fluffy Fluffy Animals I saw in Alaska!

Wagon Ride

About 9 of us signed up at the last minute to go on a "Rustic Wagon Ride & Dinner"
It was really the dinner part that sold us, because it would mean we didn't have to eat at the employee dinning hall that night!!! Woohoo! :)
It was really quite fun, the driver and footman were young and joked around with our group and told us what it was like growing up in a town of about 500 (they were both natives to AK and grew up in the little town of Healy <- about 20 minutes outside Denali)
He was telling us about his high school graduating class of 8 students! hahaha
Right after high school he decided to go to college in Los Angeles!!!!!
He said he made it about 2 months before totally freaking out and moving back to Alaska. :)
It was really interesting learning about such a unique childhood and life.



Tasha, Maryrose, Matt & Myself on the wagon heading to FOOD!






One of our horses (Bill)




Our Driver Jack and the road ahead

Wagon Pulling up to take us home from dinner

Matt & Tasha on the bus ride home to Denali

Me & Maryrose (bit of Titus' head in the back ) on ride home

Matt fell asleep on the wagon ride back to the buses....

Quick shot with the ponies before we left

7 hour nature Bus tour with Stephanie!

Me and steph got bored on one of our days off and decided to take the Toklat Bus tour into the Denali National Park, it was 7 hours long and heck, we had the time to kill :)


2 Owl Chicks and their mom in a nest!





Me and Stephanie being Stupid on the bus




Me at the edge of a low level Glacier

Carribou!!!! (aka Carribooty)

The notorious Bathroom Squirrel

More Carribou


Stephanie at the edge of the same Glacier

Us Posing at one of the Restroom stops

Steph the Retarded Moose!

Me the mentally challenged Carribou!

That was our day in a nutshell, afterwards we rewarded our adventurous spirits with large cheeseburgers and soda....mmmm cheeeeseburgersss....*drools*

A bunch of Random Pictures...

Because I don't feel like going into each l'il story right at this moment.

Here are some pretty pictures. haha :)