Company!!!!!

June 11 – Bill had his worst night ever.  I think I got up with him 4 times.  His foot just kept feeling like a knife was in it.  I’m not sure how much of this he’s going to be able to take.  He’s so tired the next day from not getting quality sleep. 

Once we had breakfast I cleaned the RV and did a load of laundry.  I put out bug lights on the picnic table.  Mark, Gloria, Ray and Sherry expected to be here between noon and 1 and we were scheduled to work from 2 – 6.  The plan was to cook out since the 6 of us won’t fit in our car to go out to dinner.  I made a peach jello pie and had snacks ready.  Our neighbor and his wife graciously offered to get us some firewood so we could have a fire tonight and sit out.

They arrived just after 1 and backed right in.  We all stood out visiting and then the main guy here, Kelly, stopped by to see why we were late getting to work.  He wanted us scheduled for 1-6 and Natalie said 2 – 6 for 5 days and that’s our 20 hours a week.  He wasn’t happy that she overrode him and said it was packed down there so we ate quickly and Mark drove us down so they could use the car.

It was crazy busy!  If we had stuff to sell we would have made a lot of money today.  We did make change a lot for the soda machine and I ended up having to open it and get the quarters out to recycle.  Then the machine wouldn’t work properly.  I had one of the seasonals come see if he could figure it out and he couldn’t so I went back out and unplugged it and plugged it back in and apparently it reset and worked fine.  It’s old and full of nasty bug parts so who knows what is jammed in where it shouldn’t be!  We are almost out of candy and have maybe 15 bags of chip products left for tomorrow.  We have been selling floats and rafts and fishing poles.  We even sold 2 t-shirts today!  Mark and Sherry came to get us at 6 but our boss lady was there bringing us more change so we got out a little late.

Gloria wasn’t feeling well between motion sickness and a cold coming on so she slept while the others went to a couple of shops.  They all loved The Cheese Shop and did most of their purchasing there.  They picked up chicken for tonight and then just came back and enjoyed relaxing after 4 days in DC.

Mark built a fire in the pit and Gloria still wasn’t up to par so the rest of us sat out eating, drinking and talking until 10.  Mark grilled the chicken, burgers and a few hot dogs, Sherry made a salad and we had corn on the cob, watermelon and pie.  No one left hungry!  It was really a nice evening.  I wish they could have stayed longer.  They all thought the park was really beautiful.