Here are a bunch of random pictures of the Jellystone park, and also a BBQ restaurant we ate at on Tuesday. There are a few of our little snack shack kitchen in its present form, and one of the patio taken through the snack shack order window. The mobile BBQ trailer was something a park guest brought in for a big family reunion that was held here in June. He paid for an extra site for the whole weekend to have it here, but I guess he thought it was worth it. There are also a couple of pictures of the pool area during a big rainstorm–they close the water features if there is a chance of lightening and this was a huge storm. Last picture is of the big water slide they were supposed to have running by Memorial day. It was finally opened to the public July 3rd…

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We went back to work today, and it was a slow one. It seems like there are a lot of people in the park, but it was the hottest day since we have been here–around 96 degrees. Luckily our new kitchen air conditioner works good or we would be dying in there. We are still trying to eat up that brisket we bought from HEB last week, so we had that for dinner. I think I am getting a little tired of it. It is good, but we have eaten a lot of it this past week…

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My little Canon camera has a scratch or something on the lens–it can’t be seen in every picture, but it is visible in the brighter ones. I first noticed it in the pictures we took from the road around Mt. Shasta, but I thought it was just a smudge or something. We tried cleaning the lens and blowing air inside the camera but the smudge is still there. We decided we would use some of my birthday money and Kevin’s tax rebate and buy a good camera. This guy–one of our favorite full-time RV’ers uses and recommends the nikon D40. He takes really great pictures–everything from distant landscapes to close-ups of wildlife–even hummingbirds in flight.

I really wanted a camera that I could use now, but that would improve my picture taking over time. The D40 can be as easy as a point and shoot camera, but it also has manual modes that we can play with and learn as we go along. It is not a camera that we will quickly grow out of. They had a great package at Costco that came with the camera, a Nikon camera bag, a get started DVD, and a memory card for less than the retail price of the camera alone at most places. So we bought it. I took a bunch of pictures as soon as the battery got charged, and I was really happy with the ease of use and the quality of the photos. Eventually we will buy a zoom lens, and that will make it even more fun!!

After Costco, we went to Wal-Mart for a few groceries, then back to the park. We had planned on doing a bit more shopping, but the camera purchase was enough for one day!! We got home, and the new couple in the snack bar had a couple of questions, but their day went well for the most part. They are still having trouble with the register countdown and the deposit, so I made up a worksheet similar to the ones we used at the restaurant. Hopefully that will simplify the countdown for them.

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Today was the first day that the snack bar was open without either Kevin or me working in it. Kevin went over a couple of times to make sure the new people were okay, and I went over at closing time to oversee their first close alone. We didn’t want to seem like we didn’t think they could handle things by themselves, but we wanted to let them know that we were there to support them if necessary. I just kind of watched them close up, and they seemed to have it all under control, but the register count down is a bit of an issue. We will work on that.Since we kind of wanted to be available today, we stayed home and cleaned the coach. With both of us working full time, it had gotten to be quite a mess. We cleaned and organized and put things away and did laundry and threw things away. I think the coach is the cleanest it has been since we left Woodburn.

In other news, while I was out walking the cat, our friends Judy and Kathy whispered to me to come back and see them as soon as I took the cat inside. So I did. They told me that our current assistant managers were given the manager position(not too much of a surprise), and that a couple was coming from one of Legacy’s other parks to take over as the new assistant managers. They should be here tomorrow. Hopefully things will settle down and we will have a nice, happy rest of our summer.

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We thought the new couple might get to work with us one more time before they were on their own, but they were desperately needed in housekeeping today, so it was just Kevin and me in the snack bar. We were busy again, but not so much that we could not handle it ourselves. It would have been nice to have one other person, but there really was no one they could spare. Sunday is usually busy when we first open, then slow the rest of the day. But today, there were some fifty check-ins, so we had plenty of business. We are actually out of some things and getting low on others…we had no idea we would have such a busy week.

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Now that we are getting comfortable with everything in the snack bar, the owners decided to include a menu in the check-in packet for every guest in the park. I think it worked–we had our busiest day by far today. There were three of us working all day, and we all kept busy all day. By the end of the day, we were tired, so we made ourselves a pizza for dinner. It has kind of become a habit to have pizza one day a week now. First it was Friday, but we work our longest day on Saturday so we have decided that should be pizza night.

This weekend was supposed to be Christmas in July, but nothing exciting happened. One of our activities work campers actually works as Santa during the holiday season, so he was dressed that way all weekend. And some of the crafts were Christmas-y I guess, but I didn’t see any of those. In fact, there are still flags hanging everywhere from last weekend. I really think they could have done a better job of Christmas in July.

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Friday was a typical work day. Kevin had to run to the grocery store in the morning because we were almost out of milk. He also got some buns so we will have hot dogs for dinner tonight. We worked 12 - 8 in the snack bar along with the new couple who we are training. They are doing very well, so we left them alone for an hour so we could take a lunch break. They seem to be fine, so they will probably be on their own on Monday, so we will probably wait until Tuesday to do our weekly shopping trip, just in case they need help with something. After work, we had our hot dogs and some chips, then the cat and I sat outside until past 11:00. The bugs did not seem to be as bad last night, so we stayed out late…

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