And the party is over....

September 2 – Final day has finally arrived!  It’s both a sad and happy occasion for me.  Not as much for Bill.  I have loved being in Michigan and enjoyed all of the places we’ve been and seen and that we were able to visit with friends of Bill’s and our winter tenant, Rich , and his wife.  I’m glad to be done cleaning bathrooms, except for my own, until at least May  of 2019!

A lot of the guests spent the day at Michigan Adventures so it was pretty quiet.  Jean told us this morning that they were expecting it to be a slower more relaxing day.  Sounded good to us, especially since we had to move again.  Today we went to the space next to where we’ve been all summer.  Jean told Bill the spot was open for over a week if we wanted to stay on, for free and not work.  He told her we had mapped out more of Michigan to see in the next week.  Paul and Kim took the day off and didn’t reappear until about 9 PM.  Good for them!

We moved as soon as the folks vacated the spot and we don’t have anything outside so the moving is much easier and makes tomorrow’s leaving faster also.  Bill cleaned some fire pits today between our bathroom duties.  Boy, the sand was worse than yesterday!

Jean told us she wanted to have glow stick party at the playground tonight at 8:30 and wanted us to let everyone know.  We were also in charge of handing out the glow sticks, so we had to be at the event.  As we worked the campground for trash pick up and cleaning duties we stopped at all sites where there were kids and spread the word.

We had leftover brats for dinner, fast and easy, with broccoli slaw.  During our breaks we each did things to get ready for leaving tomorrow.  I wish I could have done laundry!  I did my ironing and packed the back seat of the truck.  We were going to do something different with the bicycles and put stuff in the back but decided not to take our bikes apart to lie flat as we will need them at the Good Sam Rally in Michigan.

Bill and I handed out glow sticks to the kids and since we had plenty, we gave them to the parents also.  It was kind of neat with 50 or so kids with the different colors and the background was the lake with the 3 aerators that change color.  I had stuck 2 glow sticks in my hair clip and a lot of the girls ended up putting theirs in their hair.  I’m a trend setter!  So, it was a success and everyone seemed to enjoy it.  I think next year Jean will post the events for the weekend for the arrivals to know what will be going on.

Once we all got back to the office, Bill thought he would be doing pass lane but then the thunder and lightening started and Jean told us to go home, our tour of duty was over and we’d see her in the morning.  So we turned in our keys and drove our cart to the garage for the last time.  We hurried home on the bikes and got in before the real rain storm hit.

Over the last 2 days since we were doing some site clean up again, we found .77 that made our grand total of “found” funds $2.79.  We also took our cans and bottles in to Meijers on one of our breaks today and we got $8.30, bringing our can/bottle money to $156.50.  We also filled up our bin today full of cans and bottles that we’ll take in before we leave Michigan! 

As soon as we started watching our show, the weather got bad and we kept losing the signal so we just gave up and read instead.