We all know that people think housekeepers do nothing: we drive around in a random van just to get the newspaper and bring the guest more toilet paper and we lay around in the lodge. But you’d be surprised how much we do behind the scenes. Can you even imagine? Without us—the guest wouldn’t have clean rooms, fresh towels, or made beds. Oh and staff—your trash would be overflowing and you wouldn’t know where to get your cleaning supplies from now would you?

Sassy, classy, and clean is how I like to describe our team at the ranch. We always “kill it” on turnover days and people may think it’s easy work but have you ever tried making 22 beds a day? I’m not talking about just pulling the covers up but tucking in the sheets and folding the pillowcases correctly—yes there is a correct way.

Now what people don’t seem to understand is that we housekeepers are the human ‘mice’ of the ranch. When something happens we are the first to know about or in fact the first to witness it. We’ve run into random movements of mattresses in cabins and even have experienced people running off with our towels. Not to mention we have some empty houses on ranch property that we had to search for a missing girl! Crazy story—we didn’t find her but the hunt was real.

There are four of us total. We started with a team of five but when the Tetons turned, I guess so did a few of our co-workers. First there is the Boss, also known as ‘Tina the Talking Taby (Haha if you've seen 'Arthur'-- you'll understand). She’s in charge of the three of us, which includes me. She likes to call me the ‘Sleeping Lion’ because I tend to take little cat naps in the housekeeping van. In our super sweet housekeeping van aka van number three, all of the seats are taken out besides the passenger seat and the driver seat. In back we have large bins filled with towels and caddies and rags and basically everything you need to stock a cabin. When the towel bin is full I like to crawl on top because there really isn’t a place to sit; so I like to “lounge” on top of them. So that’s where my nickname came from.

Then there is Giggle Gag. This is her second season working at the ranch. She is constantly laughing which is a nice perk because we can all joke around all day. Of course we get our work done. Now, Giggle came from the constant laughter and Gag came from her gag reflex. Aka her gag reflex is zero. Sometimes she’ll just start gagging because of a certain smell or just because it’s the morning and she doesn’t want to get out of bed. The worse part about the gag is that it’s contagious. Simply things that wouldn’t make me gag start to gross me out just because they gross her out. Like taking out the trash or mopping the kids club.

Our final housekeeper just entered our team a few weeks ago and she’s killer. Great worker and she understands how to get stuff done. I like to call her ‘New Truck.’ I can’t even begin to describe how much she knows about trucks and how many she has had. You could call her trucking a hobby and an obsession.

The best part about housekeeping is that we all get along. We’ve had some bumps along the way just with the housekeeping team being tied into all the drama but now I can say that our team is pretty stellar.

From sweeping up bat poop to catching mice, and mopping up the bathroom we are all over the ranch and trust me when I say we know where the drama comes from!