smooth sailing

Much better! You know it’s amazing what a day can do to change your attitude at work. As you could probably tell I wasn’t the happiest camper yesterday, but things went much better today. I worked again at the front desk, but I worked with a different “guest service agent” (basically a front desk agent) named Lani and she was awesome. She explained how things worked, she had me help her, and she actually let me do stuff too! It’s hard for the front desk to know what to do with me, especially since I’m just going to be around for a week, but its always nice to feel helpful/useful. After the usual of checking guest in and out and accommodating their every wish, I headed “home.” I grabbed some dinner, read the paper, and did some laundry.

Today I also got to eat breakfast with the new Café Hanalei manager from Boston, Jeremy. He’s living in the hotel too and so we’re both the new guys to the company. We’re hoping to hit up some of the hiking spots later in the week and he even offered me to use his rental car while he works at night. Wahoo! Perhaps I’ll have a little more independence from Princeville.

After dinner and on my way back to my room, I got a glimpse of the sunset and decided to drop my stuff off and head down to the beach to unwind. Amazing. Absolutely amazing to see sunsets like this practically every night, but tonight’s was the first that I really sat to enjoy it. It’s funny how you can get wrapped up in the small things, when beautiful wonderful things happen around you every day. Awwww . . . that’s my inspirational thought of the night ;)