60 Day of 365 of What it is Like to Run a Resort

Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010. I woke up to the sound of the rain on the roof. This was not good because we had our resort full of families. At least one person in each family has Spina Bifida and their organization takes our entire resort for a weekend every year. They do a lot of activities, most of them outside, so rain would not be good.

By noon though the rain had pretty much stopped. I had decided to sew most of the morning, and once I get going on a project, its hard to stop. So I made myself go outside several times during the day to visit with our customers and their kids. I had fun talking and joking with them.

John spent most of the day with the group and then we both did some chores. I did some laundry and John - I don't know what. He says he like to just go outside and then he will find something to do. Like I said in an earlier post, we can turn in any direction and we will find something to do.

I found out that this evening the kids would be dressing up in Halloween costumes and go trick or treating to all of our 9 cabins. I told them they should come to the lodge too and that I would have something for them. I made steak and tenderloin on the grill for us for dinner. Then I made pumpkin, raisin, white chip cookies for the trick or treaters. They turned out good and I plastic wrapped 2 cookies per kid. They all came into the lodge around 7:30 p.m. and the costumes were very cute.

After they were done trick or treating, they made a bon fire. John and I went down to it to visit for awhile. We left early so they didn't feel they had to talk to us. We wanted them to have fun with their group. It was a very nice fire and they were making s'mores. Some of the kids were still in their costumes and it was very fun.

It turned out they didn't need one of our cabins, which means that the cabin sat empty all weekend. We had turned away business because we thought we would be full. So when John showed them their invoice, he mentioned this to them but didn't charge them the un-used cabin. He told them that next time even a day's notice would be better than none. Hopefully that won't happen again or we will charge them for the empty cabin.

We love this group and they have been coming up to our resort for 12 years. They also have taken the entire resort each year for a weekend. So we will let them slide this once.