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SKI RESORT: MONDAY
Welcome one and all to the beautiful Enten-Anka Winter Resort! The weather today is sunny but cold, with intermittent snows throughout the night.
Please feel free to avail yourself of your cabins! You'll all find yourself with numbered keys on arrival, so you can find your own cabin and single room. Slip into some of the colourful clothes provided, enjoy the roaring fireplace and comfy couches, grab some snacks from the fridge, play a rousing round of Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit, and try not to kill your housemates over the single bathroom between you!
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Here in the main cabin, you'll find a huge and well-laden buffet. Breakfast between 5am and 11am, lunch between 11:30 and 5pm, dinner between 5:30 and 1am! Foodstuffs range from every world, so you're bound to find something you like, and no matter how much of the steam tray you clear out the staff will always have a fresh one ready to go immediately. Chairs and tables are scattered around the large dining area, which opens onto a comfy-looking bar/lounge. The bar is open at all times, serving everything from soft drinks to complex cocktails and strange beers you'll never have heard of, but don't expect to cheat the barman with fake ID - as usual, if you're underage at home, your drink becomes non-alcoholic automatically, no matter what the lengths you try to go to to get some booze (that includes stealing other people's drinks, you rascals!) After 7pm, there's music, and even a karaoke machine if you feel like rocking the mic.
The heated indoor pool too is open at all times, although the sauna closes at 8pm. Guests are welcome to take their drinks out to the jacuzzi on the verandah, where the view of the stars is magnificent.
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Up on the slopes, helpful employees will direct you to the beginner, intermediate, and expert slopes. Please do not tackle slopes you are not prepared for, the management claims no responsibility for any injury. (Experienced snowboarders or skiers will find hot water bottles in their beds that night in gratitude if they help the less experienced learn, courtesy of the management, as a thank you.) All around the slopes, especially at the top, you'll see beautiful snowdrop flowers. Any of the staff around the resort will let slip about how these snowdrops fit into the legend of the White Well; really, they're quite proud of it.
The ski-lift seats two per lift and lasts a good fifteen minutes to reach the peak of the mountain. The scenery is not to be missed, named #4 in Nature Monthly's Landscapes To Distract From Awkward Conversations On Ski-Lifts!
(There is a medical centre at the base of the mountain for emergencies. It's fairly basic. Hope you don't end up there, okay?)
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The area surrounding the circle of cosy cabins is mostly woods, with a few snow-covered bare hills to the south. The White Well is five, ten minutes walk into the woods to the north, in a small clearing surrounded by a circle of evergreen firs. The area surrounding it feels quiet, serene. Maybe it's the snow. At any rate, there's a local legend surrounding it. They say that if you take a snowdrop flower from the slopes of the mountain, pack it into a snowball with a strand of your hair, and then let it fall into the well, you get to make one wish to come true in the year to come. The locals say it never fails as long as the wish is pure!
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Please check your brochures for any missing info, or direct your questions to the management!
Please feel free to avail yourself of your cabins! You'll all find yourself with numbered keys on arrival, so you can find your own cabin and single room. Slip into some of the colourful clothes provided, enjoy the roaring fireplace and comfy couches, grab some snacks from the fridge, play a rousing round of Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit, and try not to kill your housemates over the single bathroom between you!
--
Here in the main cabin, you'll find a huge and well-laden buffet. Breakfast between 5am and 11am, lunch between 11:30 and 5pm, dinner between 5:30 and 1am! Foodstuffs range from every world, so you're bound to find something you like, and no matter how much of the steam tray you clear out the staff will always have a fresh one ready to go immediately. Chairs and tables are scattered around the large dining area, which opens onto a comfy-looking bar/lounge. The bar is open at all times, serving everything from soft drinks to complex cocktails and strange beers you'll never have heard of, but don't expect to cheat the barman with fake ID - as usual, if you're underage at home, your drink becomes non-alcoholic automatically, no matter what the lengths you try to go to to get some booze (that includes stealing other people's drinks, you rascals!) After 7pm, there's music, and even a karaoke machine if you feel like rocking the mic.
The heated indoor pool too is open at all times, although the sauna closes at 8pm. Guests are welcome to take their drinks out to the jacuzzi on the verandah, where the view of the stars is magnificent.
---
Up on the slopes, helpful employees will direct you to the beginner, intermediate, and expert slopes. Please do not tackle slopes you are not prepared for, the management claims no responsibility for any injury. (Experienced snowboarders or skiers will find hot water bottles in their beds that night in gratitude if they help the less experienced learn, courtesy of the management, as a thank you.) All around the slopes, especially at the top, you'll see beautiful snowdrop flowers. Any of the staff around the resort will let slip about how these snowdrops fit into the legend of the White Well; really, they're quite proud of it.
The ski-lift seats two per lift and lasts a good fifteen minutes to reach the peak of the mountain. The scenery is not to be missed, named #4 in Nature Monthly's Landscapes To Distract From Awkward Conversations On Ski-Lifts!
(There is a medical centre at the base of the mountain for emergencies. It's fairly basic. Hope you don't end up there, okay?)
--
The area surrounding the circle of cosy cabins is mostly woods, with a few snow-covered bare hills to the south. The White Well is five, ten minutes walk into the woods to the north, in a small clearing surrounded by a circle of evergreen firs. The area surrounding it feels quiet, serene. Maybe it's the snow. At any rate, there's a local legend surrounding it. They say that if you take a snowdrop flower from the slopes of the mountain, pack it into a snowball with a strand of your hair, and then let it fall into the well, you get to make one wish to come true in the year to come. The locals say it never fails as long as the wish is pure!
--
Please check your brochures for any missing info, or direct your questions to the management!