We were open today from 11:00am-2:00pm, then again from around 3:45pm-8:30pm. We sold 46 pizzas — they seemed to go really well here. Most people bought more than one, and a few bought 4 or more. The main problem will be the tiny pizza oven. When people ordered four pizzas, their first one was out of the oven before the last one was even in the oven. It would be nice to have two of the little ovens, but that may never happen. We also got the brand new slushie machine running, and we sold about a dozen of those. It took a really long time for the mix to freeze, possibly because of the heat, but once it got to the right consistency, it was a good product.

We really thought we would be busy on Sunday, too, but the owners only wanted to be open Friday and Saturday this first week, just to see how everything worked. We are scheduled in housekeeping for Sun, Mon, and Tues. We would much rather be in the kitchen, but not this week I guess…

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Here are some pictures of our very small snack shack kitchen. We were open for the first time tonight, but all we sold was the Hunt Brothers Pizza and canned soda. The owners wanted us to get something going, and we had everything we needed to make the pizza, so that is what we served. We only sold sixteen pizzas, but my goal for the first night was fifteen, so I think we did okay. We will be open all day tomorrow, so hopefully we will have a good day…

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We went to Cypress, the nearest larger city to to the East of us. We needed to go to Verizon to try to get a new phone, but it will have to be sent to us. It should be here on Friday. We went to lunch at TGI Fridays, then we went grocery shopping. This week we decided to go to the HEB. It is a local chain, and it is the nicest grocery store we have been in since we have been in Texas. It is HUGE and they have a really nice produce, seafood, and meat departments. We spent a lot of time there, and bought a bunch of good stuff. I am so happy we found a place that sells the big tubs of Greek yogurt. I got hooked on it in Seattle, and was worried that I would not be able to get any here in Texas.

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We worked 8-5 today. We cleaned five of the big 2-bedroom cabins, and it took us all day. Even when we work together, it takes us about 75 minutes to do one cabin. It is a hard job, and I am very happy that we don’t have to do it full time. After work, I was really tired, so I just sat outside with the cat all evening and went to bed very early.

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Today is check out day for 90% of our campers. We worked 8 - 5, although we did very little for the first three hours. Cabins must be checked out by 11 am, so we went and got a golf cart and loaded it up with our cleaning supplies, but the only two cabins we had keys for were the ones that never showed up. We did check them out just in case, but they didn’t need any cleaning. We spent the next hour and a half or so picking up trash. By that time, there were some people checked out so we got some cabin keys and started cleaning. We did two–one larger one and one smaller one. Then it was lunch time. After lunch, we needed to put in a phone call to one of the owners to get his wants for the snack shack. We sort of ran out of things to do, and since we didn’t want to finish early two days in a row, we decided we should clean one more cabin, then call it a day. It didn’t take us quite to 5:00, but it was close enough. There are still some campers here, but most of them are gone. The park is quiet again, so we spent the evening outside with the cat.

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We were scheduled 8:30 - 5:30 today, so Kevin knew he would run the laser maze in the morning. I assumed I was working in the office, but when I got there, they decided there were too many people in the office, so they said one of us should go down to help with the pancake breakfast. I said I would either stay or go. I didn’t care. The other lady that does miscellaneous jobs said she would rather stay in the office, so I went to help with the breakfast. There were some volunteers already there, because if you volunteer to work breakfast, you get yours for free. I was extra there, too, but I tried to keep busy refilling syrup and wiping tables as people left. As soon as the service was over, all of the workers sat down and ate. They do pancakes or biscuits and gravy, plus sausage, juice, and coffee. I had some biscuits and gravy. They use a gravy mix for simplicity, but it was still pretty good. After that, I cleaned up in the snack shack until Kevin was ready to close down the laser maze, then we went to lunch. We tried to find some things to do after lunch in the snack shack, and we did get some things cleaned up and stuff, but there were so many people working we really weren’t needed until 5:30, so we signed out at 3:30 and went home. We will probably have to work on our day(s) off this week to get the snack shack opened by Friday, so we will make up those two hours later in the week. We had hot dogs and chips for dinner: I really like those hot dogs that Costco sells, plus they make a really fast dinner when it is hot and we are tired.

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It was very hot and humid today, although it was cloudy most of the morning. The park is entirely full. It is the first time since we have been here that there are people camping on all sides of us. It wasn’t too noisy last night, but people were pulling in all night long. One of the work campers said that he heard a trailer pull in at 3 am. Crazy.

I worked in the office today, but Kevin had to run the laser maze again. He doesn’t mind the actual job, but there is no place to hide from the heat. Inside the trailer is even hotter than outside. The store was fairly busy with people buying the things they forgot to bring, some kids buying candy and ice cream, and of course the golf club sign out.

We got off work at 7, the same time that the activities work campers began their Memorial day service, then there was a dance in front of the ranger station. I walked up there around 9, and it looked like people were mostly just standing around listening to the music. I don’t think anyone was dancing. We work at 8:30 in the morning, so we went to bed pretty early. There were a group of people sitting right by our bedroom talking and laughing, but they observed the 10 pm quiet time, and were quiet soon after the “dance” was over.

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We worked 10 - 7 today, and since most of the Memorial Weekend crowd won’t show up until this evening, we worked on the equipment for the snack shack. We took the little pizza oven apart and sprayed it with oven cleaner then power washed it, then we did the same with the autofry unit we will be using. We got the tables placed where we wanted them, and a plumber came out and got the two sinks installed and working. It is finally starting to look like a kitchen. We also have two used freezers that need a good cleaning before we can use them, but I only got about half way done with that before our evening jobs started.

At around 4:30 , Kevin had to go and set up the laser maze, while I was scheduled in the office. We had sweated all day long cleaning equipment, and now I had to go and greet arriving campers. At least it was nice and cool in the office. Kevin had to stay out in the heat. There were hundreds of people to get checked in and placed in their sites, but the policy here is that people have to prepay their entire holiday stay, so the check in process is simple. They are given a waiver to fill out for the water park, a pass for their car(s), and wrist bands to wear. It still took around eight people to get check in done, as well as rent out the golf carts, sell store items, and whatever else needed doing in the office. It seemed to go smoothly from my point of view, although there were a few people who had reserved specific sites, and they had been changed for one reason or another, and a few packets that had not been made up. But all in all, considering that everyone here is fairly new, it went really well.

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Today we got up and sat outside for a little while, then we headed towards Houston to go shopping. We stopped at a Target and picked up some cat food and a brush for the cat, a nice set of 450 thread count sheets (which we needed), and some other stuff, then went to Costco, which was farther away than Sam’s Club, but we wanted to check it out. We bought some stew meat, some pork ribs, some hot dogs and buns, some shorty socks for me to wear with my work shoes, some water and Gatorade, and a few other things. Then it was off to Kroger for the rest of our groceries. This was our first time in a Kroger store, but it is your typical chain grocery. The grocery store that is close to the park (still about ten minutes away) is old and they had the worst produce I have ever seen. We decided we would try very hard to never shop there again. So we made a list of what we wanted to have for dinner for the next week and what we needed to get. We got everything on our list except pickles (because they did not have the kind I wanted) and the doormat (we didn’t see one at Target that we liked). Of course we got some things that were not on the list, but at least now we can cook some meals for the next week or so. When we got home, we put the groceries away and I started some laundry. We have a washer/dryer in the coach, but the loads it can do are tiny and very slow, so since we get $10 worth of free laundry, I do it in the laundry room. It is way faster and doesn’t heat up the coach. We are having the hot dogs we got at Costco for dinner, so I don’t really have to cook anything tonight, just heat up. Nice and easy…

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It was hot today, so I didn’t want to do anything. I did do some dishes and vacuumed the coach and cleaned out the freezer and Kevin washed the CR-V and did a few things to the coach, but most of the day we sat inside and watched TV. I have a bunch of shows TiVOed, but I can only watch them when the cat is not meowing to go out. Today it was too hot to be out during the day, so I watched a lot of TV. Once the sun went down, we all went outside and sat there until it was dark. I read some, walked the cat some, and just sat there most of the time. It is nice when the sun is down if it is not too humid, but it was very humid this evening. Even just sitting outside, the sweat was running down my nose. Not very pleasant, but the cat insists on being outside and he can’t be out by himself, at least not for very long…

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