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

Sunday, September 19, 2010. My daughter turned 25 today so my mom and I spent the afternoon with her. We met her in Rhinelander and had lunch, then we went shopping. It was a lot of fun to see her and get away for a day. My mom was fun to spend time with too and she enjoyed seeing Danielle.

I said to my mom that I felt old that my daughter turned 25. My mom said, "How do you think I feel that my granddaughter is 25?" That was a good point.

After we shopped for hours, I said good-bye to my daughter and mom and then I went on my errands.

Since we are so far away from the nearest Menards, when we get the opportunity to shop at one, we take full advantage of it. So I then left the girly shopping and went to do the man shopping. I had a list that was long and it took me over an hour to get what I needed and check out. But I wasn't done yet.

I then drove into Minocqua to get some groceries at the super WalMart. I was closer to home in Minocqua, so when I bought something frozen, it would have a better chance of making it home still frozen, than if I had been in Rhinelander. So then I shopped there for another hour to get pre-packaged items for the resort's quilt retreat this weekend. By the time I was finished, I was dead tired on my feet.

I got home pretty late but still light enough to unload the car, get things put away and get dinner going. I made a shrimp/spicy sausage stir-fry and by the time we were done eating, I was exhausted.

John had taken some customers kayaking and he was tired too. They had a long kayak outing and then he did some work in the yard with various things.

We were both dead on our feet and slept good until the thunderstorm woke me up at 4:30 p.m. Then I had trouble getting to sleep. I had been worried about my son because his girlfriend had left him. He had been on a party-jag ever since. So I said a bunch of prayers for him and then finally fell asleep.

Our golden retriever, Sienna, came over to the bed and needed some attention. She is afraid of storms an this one had woken her up. We pet her a little and then she and we fell back asleep finally in the early morning light.