Chelsea Rose Goes

So I sincerely failed at my attempt to blog this Summer. I am very sorry for not sharing my adeventures as much as I had planned on. I am now back in Oklahoma, finishing up my college career. I now want to use this space for encouragement and happiness. Entertaining Angels is still my over all goal in life, but possibly no longer a suitable name for the blog. I will now open up the floor for suggestions :) Have fun!

Nearly 3 weeks..... I am SOOOOOO sorry! Internet is pretty sketching up here on the mountain and when I do have it, I simply forget to blog. Life is amazing. Yes, the title for this one is from The Grinch. I've realized lately how much i am changing and how life around me is changing. Two of my best friends in college are getting married in just under a month. Half my friends have graduated and moved on to "the real world." I went rock climbing... That's right, rock climbing!! The 5', terrified of heights girl went rock climbing! It was AMAZING! Seeing God's creation from that level is just a crazy level of AWE! God has been doing SO much in my life here! He has brought me some great friends, fun times, and opportunites to share His love. What a priviledge! I miss my family and friends so much, but I am so blessed to be here and learn as much about the hospitality industry as I can. This was short. I PROMISE I'll write more about adventures later :)

We sang a song at Rocky Mountain Church on Sunday that shared the same title as my post today. It was all about the sunrising over the mountains and the elk walkin along the side of the road and rather the rain came or stayed away it was going to be a Good Day. Why? Because God created each day for us to enjoy and share with others. The amazing part of the song was we were singing about what was right outside our windows. I just stopped and stood there realizing that I am essentially livin in my idea of paradise. I don't say this to brag, I say this because I am completely in awe of what God is doin! He put me here for a very specific purpose. He knows the desires of my heart. That is so comforting to see it played out. Yes, the Bible says this, and I believe it with all my heart, but seeing it comes to life just puts your heart in a whole new place of worship and "Yes God, You are who You Are" This place just puts a lot into perspective :) The week is going rather well S...

I feel the need to apologize. I understand it has been nearly two weeks since a post. The week before Opening of the inn on Friday 28th, we cleaned and painted and trained and tried to get everything as awesome as possible for openin weekend! Our wonderful boss gave us the day off Wednesday of that week, so we went to Denver! We took in the sites of the 16th street mall and a brewery with AWESOME food :) The bike racks in the parking garages made my day! I did discover that Denver might not be for me...maybe a lil TOO big city. I am def more of a suburb/mountain lady. The guarded, lockdown bathrooms in ROSS were enough for me to decide Boulder might be the Colorado city for me. That night we experienced the joy of bargaining with scalpers for Rockies tickets. Finding 10 seats together for under $20 each is tough, but our boys managed to make it happen :) The game ended up being SOSOSOSOSOSOSO fun! Rockies won 7-3, a hail storm passed right over the stadium..it was grand! I had a ball w...

We blame EVERYTHING on the altitude up here! If you're tired, if you're sick, moody, hyper or slept in late: it's the altitdue. I would like to take this time to just say how amazing God is. His plan is sincerely perfect. Thinking about where I thought I would be this summer and looking around at where I am..... Praise Jesus I don't run the universe. This past week has been full of hiking, trips to Boulder, haircuts, cleaning, painting, and getting to know the town of Estes Park. Our wonderful fabulous innkeeper gave us half Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off. We are crazy ahead of schedule on preparing the Inn for opening weekend (this weekend)! So the staff took sometime to hang out and become bffs :) I just adore everyone here so much! I'm getting closer with the 5 other Hospitality kiddos from OSU and I am becoming quick friends with the others. It's snowing today!! After mopping out the cabins and painting porches the clouds barrelled in over the mountain. Tr...

I found this title fitting because of my crazy urge to hike up mountains lately! (and because Dear Darci and I joked about this being the name of my blog, becuase, let's face it, that's my type :]) I realize I have three days to catch you up on, here we go, lightning round style! Sunday: Went to Mountain View Bible Fellowship right down the mountain from the Inn. I was a little nervous, but it's God's House and God's family....hopefully I'd be welcome. God blessed me with the most wonderful older women. One of them called after me as I walked in exclaiming that she did not know my face. Her name is Joyce and her and her husband lived in Waco the first three years they were married. She did not enjoy it and she has no problem letting me know that. She has been going to this church since 1962. Insert Barbie (wearing an ironic pink skirt suit) her and Joyce have been best friends since the 70's. Joyce then begins to introduce me to nearly every member of the co...

HELLO! I know, I know...I missed a couple days! That's gonna happen, BUT I will do my best to keep you up to date on all the adventures up here. Saturday consisted of cleaning the Inn, training in front desk business, and taking my Momma to the airport. That was kinda hard :/ I realize I'm not "on my own" but driving home alone in the mountains, sure feels like it. I'm SOOO happy she was able to come with me and we could share the last couple of great days together. I returned to the Inn and got ready for our dinner out in town. We go out to see what restaurants we will recommend to guests and which ones we will learn to not be like in our own service :) This particular dinner was DELICIOUS!!!! Everything had basil in it :) So, OBVIOUSLY, I was excited :) THE DESSERT! My MOSES, the desserts were amazing! We ordered one of everything and passed them around, like a true litte family! When we got back, off to Boulder the WHOLE staff of interns went. The night started...