We are almost half way through our stay here, and we are thinking of where to go next. We are considering Yuma, Arizona, and getting regular jobs for awhile. Yes, we will have to pay for our RV site, but we will be paid more per hour and we won’t have to work where we live. We are still open–we haven’t decided yet, but the dry, bug-free Arizona days are looking real good to us.
So Monday and tuesday we were off, and we went to town on Monday. We had lunch at Spring Creek Barbecue again. It was really good the first time, so we got exactly the same thing this time. They gave us so much meat that we had to take some home with us. I think we will probably go back again. After that, we did our weekly shopping and also got some stuff for the snack bar at Sam’s Club. Tuesday the zoom lens for my new camera came, so I played with it for awhile. I took some really great pictures of the cat…
After a slow Wednesday and Thursday, we weren’t sure what to expect for the weekend. But the weather turned out to be great and we had our busiest Friday and our second busiest Saturday so far. We were busy working all weekend, so there is not much to report…
Here are a few examples of the many pictures I have already taken with my new camera. We have not really been anywhere, so these are all examples from the park. Most are of sky and trees and leaves. I have yet to see a live armadillo, but have seen several dead ones–mostly on the side of the road. This was in the undeveloped part of the park along a path. The new construction started on Saturday for a new office and store building. I wonder how far along it will be when we leave in November…
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…
So we knew that we were going to go do some shopping today, but we weren’t sure where. We both said we needed hair cuts, so we first went to Great Clips. Then, since we didn’t have any breakfast, it was lunch time. We have been in Texas for nearly two months, and we still hadn’t tried Texas BBQ. So that is what we had today. We went to Spring Creek BBQ in Cypress. We had no idea what to expect when we walked in. They serve cafeteria style–you pick your meat, then they have a buffet line for the sides. We both had the beef brisket (since they didn’t have pork), then we picked some sides. They had mac and cheese, corn, cole slaw, two kinds of beans, potato salad and hot bread. You can basically have all-you-can-eat of the sides, but we got so much meat that I just got some corn and cole slaw and bread. Kevin just got corn and bread–I guess he could have gotten fries or potato, but we did not know that when we were there. I found that on the website after we got back home. Anyway, we got seated and started eating. We both had missed the pan of hot BBQ sauce near the sides, so we were looking around for sauce. I remembered that I had seen something that could have been sauce, so I went and got some. Once we poured on the sauce, we both really liked the meat. The cole slaw was fresh and good, but the corn was watery and icky. They kept coming around with hot bread, so we both got plenty to eat.
After lunch, we went to Sam’s Club. We didn’t really need a lot, but Kevin likes their cinnamon rolls and precooked bacon. We also got some more drinking water, some cat food, and a few other things. Then we went to Randalls grocery store. They are owned by Safeway, so I can even use my Safeway card there. We got a few groceries, then went back home. We hit rain while we were out, and it had also rained at the park while we were gone. Of course we left our chairs out, so they were soaked. They were mostly dry by dark, so we covered them just in case it rains again tonight. No dinner tonight–we were both too full from lunch. We each fixed a snack and that was it.
Today I worked, but Kevin was off. The owners are trying to get the snack shack open seven days a week, so they wanted us to train someone else to work there. We have had one person come over and give us breaks on Saturday, our long day, and sometimes she stays and helps out Saturday night. She is a nice lady, but she has trouble with the basics of pizza making, so we were a bit nervous leaving her in charge of the snack shack, even for the slow days. Plus, three people are not quite enough to be open seven days, when Kevin and I take the same two days off each week. So we really needed at least one more person to work the two days a week that we will be off. The manager decided to schedule someone from housekeeping. She said she had plenty of restaurant experience, and she did pick up the pizza making very easily. It was Monday, so we only had a few orders, but everything she did make was made correctly, so that was good. Then the manager came over and told us that since they are short on staff, the owners said they could hold off on being open seven days for awhile. So that means that Kevin and I will work Wednesday-Sunday, and we really won’t need the extra help. But I guess it is still good for them to have someone else who can work at the snack shack–just in case Kevin and/or I need to be off longer than two days.
While I was working, Kevin came over twice and said he was going to Camping World to get a few things that we needed. But he never made it. He got busy talking to Judy and Kathy, the pair of work camping women, and never left the campground. He was still chatting with them when I got off work, so I got the cat and went over there, but I was really hungry, so we didn’t stay.
Just a small video of the water park here. To view a higher quality version of the video Click Here and then under the video click on the “watch in high quality” link.
After that, we did our weekly shopping and also got some stuff for the snack bar at Sam’s Club. Tuesday the zoom lens for my new camera came, so I played with it for awhile. I took some really great pictures of the cat…
