Monday, September 6, 2010

55 of 365 of What it is Like to Run a Resort



Attached is a picture John took of one of his kayak outings this spring. Senna, our golden retriever is in the kayak with him, which is her happiest place - with John.

Monday, Labor Day, September 6, 2010. I had to labor on Labor Day, oh well. Three cabins left today so I went in and stripped the sheets, turned off the refrigerators, gas to the heaters/ovens, hot water and anything else I could. Then I made up the bags of clean laundry. I took the bags and dropped them off in the cabins. I was going to only have one cleaning lady today, so I knew I would have to clean with her.

We started at 1:00 and worked until 4:00. We efficiently cleaned the 3 cabins. I saved $36 by cleaning instead of having another cleaning girl helping today. It was worth it to save the money, I guess. I would have much rather had another cleaning person here to help, but they couldn't make it. The cabins were very clean so they were easy to do at least.

John took two people out kayaking again today and he called at 3:45 to ask that I pick them up. I paid the cleaning lady, locked up the resort and then drove the old Toyota Landcruiser to Arrowhead Road, and the Turtle River. I had to back up the rig because the trailer was on it for the kayaks. Its a good thing I know how to back up a trailer. John had only been waiting for a little while so the timing of everything was great. He jokes that I can back up the trailer better than him. We loaded up the two kayaks while we listened to the waterfall below the bridge. It was very beautiful there.

As soon as I could after we got home, I took a shower. Then John and I rested for awhile. Soon there were some customers in the bar and we visited with them, had one drink each and then they left. That was short but sweet.

It is raining now but it was beautiful today. I had left the tables/table cloths on out on the deck from the social yesterday. So I brought those in before they got wet. I did a couple loads of laundry today also, boring, I know.

I checked e-mails today and we received a couple negative comments about the fact that we will be closed in the winter. We will be closed from January 4th through mid April. Hopefully we won't alienate any customers but we have to try something different once in every 10 years or so, don't you think?

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