New Year, New Fish

I spent the holidays with my friends, since I couldn´t go home to celebrate with my family. I have to admit that I got a little home sick around Christmas. I was working those days but the hotel was really slow the whole December and I didn´t have much to do. But, while I was working, my friends Katrin and Jan was slaving in my kitchen and by the time I got home the turkey was getting ready in the oven, the  table was set, and the wine bottle was open. It was very nice. We also had a teeny tiny Christmas tree which we put our gifts unde

r, and we opened after dinner. Almost like home.

For New Years my roomie, I and some other friends wined and dined before going to the “Peach drop”. As we imagined it to be similar to the drop in New York, we were pretty excited. So, true to Swedish traditions, we put a couple of bottles of Champagne in our hand bags along with some cups and took t

he subway to down town. Well there we realize that the area was strictly controlled by police and that they checked the hand bags. Shoot, so we had to go and hide in a back alley and finish the Champagne at half twelve… Not quite the same thing, but what can you do?

The “peach drop” was another disappointed. It was just a cut out cardboard peach that they had attached to the tower, which then, at midnight, slowly came down. And the fireworks

that followed was no more than the average Swedish firework bomb. Pretty pathetic. We went to Taco Mac and had martinis to keep our spirits up. All in all, we still had a good time.

After new years business picked up and we´ve had f

ull occupancy for weeks, but every day was different. One day we had about 1050 check-ins, which is busy for front desk but we in housekeeping were pretty prepared for it. The next day however, we only had 150 out and the same in, which means we have to turn the rooms as soon as the guests leave them, at the latest. The corporate choose this day to make one of their yearly two inspections. I ran like an idiot that day. Hard work but good exercise, especially after all the holiday goods. Then came the over-a-thousand check-

out, which also was a pretty busy day. It was good though, I prefer it busy.

Lastly, I´ve decided that this year is the year I start my way to riches, and to remind me and keep me on track I bought a goldfish. My roomie bought one too so we now share our home with Steve and George.

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