The event coordinator at the restaurant, Jen, and I loaded up the van, we even commandeered the kitchen cart to wheel the cake into the venue, and with our map/driving directions in hand, began our trek across the valley to deliver the wedding cake. Getting to the parking lot was a piece of cake (cake puns are ALWAYS intended when talking to a cake decorator, I don't care what they say!). Once we found a resort employee, and discovered that there was NO way we could wheel anything up to the building, we were in the least, frightened, and realistically I was scared stiff! How are we supposed to CARRY 75+ pounds of cake up a snowy mountain, with snowboarders whizzing past us?!
So we begin our assessment hike up the slope. We leave the cake, unassembled, in the van, and walk/climb up the mountain, and then are nearly mowed over by a mob of snow boarders/skiiers. Our instructions were, to follow the paper lanterns through the trees, to the cabin, as we locate said lanterns, my hopes for an easy delivery drop more and more with each lantern we find. These lanterns are each at a slightly higher elevation than the first, and the path is wedged between the trees.
For having so many hurdles to clear during the delivery, the entire thing went incredibly smoothly. I still am not looking forward to another winter resort wedding delivery though!
