4th of July Abroad Once Again

On this day last year, I spent the night hiking up Mount Ventoux in France to reach the top and watch the sunrise. My trip’s timing was better than expected, even though we began late, and we were still early for the sunrise. Exhausted and sore, we decided to drive down (the vans were parked at the top before hand) and as we did, the sun began to rise. We may have been mid mountain, but it was a beautiful sight. 

Work was relatively mundane today. I worked on the same project for a few hours. I had to look up 5 or 6 various hotels and their room prices for July-December, single and double weekday and weekend for the first half and second half of the month. And the internet was slow. There was some graph paper and I colored in a third of the boxes (every other one to make a pattern) while the pages loaded. 

There was a “triathlon" between the employees of 3 Luxury Collection Hotels, which were Schloss Fuschl, Sheraton Salzburg, and Hotel Goldener Hirsch - the former two I visited on my competition check. I saw the really nice man who helped me at Goldener Hirsch and I avoided him like the plague. Felt really bad too. I put triathlon in quotations because it wasn’t a real triathlon. They swam to a certain point in the lake, "biked” on spinning bikes with a spin instructor (it looks 10x more fun in German), “biked” some more for those who didn’t get a go in round 1, and then ran/jogged the 12km it is around the lake. 

It was actually a beautiful day. No clouds, sunshine, and dry weather. It was a bit chilly, but that will forever remain. 

Happy 4th of July from the American abroad :D