Back to Happy Jack

After a nice breakfast that Cheryl prepared for us, we headed back to Happy Jack at about 8:30. We stopped at the Paradise Bakery up the street from their house to grab a vanilla latte for the road. It's been awhile since we've had one of those. We really enjoyed our visit with everybody and made us wish that we could get on a plane and visit with Patty, Mark and our grand kids. Our plan all along is to try to get to Chicago to visit them between jobs if we can manage that.

We were back to work at noon and had a fairly busy afternoon. The weekends are still busy at the store and the lodge but today will see us start a week that will be dead until Wednesday. That's when the Arizona Elk Society comes in to conduct their Youth Elk Hunt Camp. It will be be super busy from Wednesday through Sunday and that's the main reason Josie and I are staying around. Chi Chi said we will still have our normal days off on Wednesday and Thursday, so that will be interesting since he and Jamie have to cover those days alone.

We're still waiting to hear from our Cottonwood connections about work. Our best shot, we feel, is from the Out of Africa people. Josie will have a meeting with them on either Wednesday or Thursday. In the meantime, we are still sending our resume out to other parks that are advertising on the Workamper Hotline. The lessons we learned this year about searching for winter jobs have been invaluable. Sometime, we will review that process in another blog entry, but that's it for now...