Saturday August 7th 2010

This is going to be another early day.  Had to get Linda up before 7AM!! I didn’t get up any to early. She didn’t want to get up because she knows the rest of the week I will wake her up early.

We went over to Table Rock Lake where James and Janice work and visited with them for awhile and met Jeremy a Park Ranger.

Jeremy was a very nice young fellow and answered a lot of questions for us. We may try to work for the Corps of Engineers next year, not sure yet. Hopefully James and Janice will have one day off while we are still here to take a ride around to some of their campgrounds. James and Janice say they are really beautiful. They have been revamping them one at a time. I may have said this before but James and Janice got the job they wanted and are really glad they got it. The one they have isn’t to bad except for the boss who isn’t a people person and he is having a hard time keeping people working there (volunteers).  Got a picture of a Bald Eagle, they sure are majestic!!

I didn’t ask the story of this one, probably died in captivity or something.

We stopped at the Chateau on the Lake for a look around….

After looking around inside we decided this wasn’t quite our cup of tea.  I think this was meant for high class people with lots of money, definitely not us.  The place was beautiful and the views were really great but I think we will stick to the Super 8!!

We didn’t do much the rest of the day. Took it easy this afternoon.  Want to know how cheap I am??  I wanted to see a movie at the IMAX theater and we went over and the movie wasn’t free!!  Would have cost about $12. Now for a 45 minute movie, that is just a little high for me, but the fact that it cost anything for an employee in Branson, well, that turned me off.  We then thought, maybe we could stop at the Butterfly Palace and take a look around there.  The time was 4:45PM and it closed at 5PM and reopened at 8PM!!  Guess we will do that some other time.  So much for the shows for today.  Linda and I have still only seen about 6 or 7 shows since we’ve been here.  Not the show going type of people I guess.

Not much else to say, we have to go back to work tomorrow.  Nick stopped over tonight to fill us in on the workload tomorrow, lots of checkouts but only a couple of turnarounds.  We won’t have the pressure tomorrow to get it all done, we can spread it out over a couple of days.

We are tired and going to go to bed early tonight. Still have 22 days to go but I’m sure they will go fast.  Tried to talk Nick into trading their week off. We don’t have one but wouldn’t complain about leaving early.  Since we are here for 3 months we don’t get a weeks unpaid vacation. Going to miss Nick and Sherry when they go on vacation. We only have one week alone they will have 2 months alone.  I know they can handle it though. Will write more tomorrow…….