Discovering Brawley

We started the day yesterday with a trip to Brawley, which is the closest town (30 miles) with a full grocery store (Vons) and a brand new Super Walmart store. The town is really nice and it is very easy to find things since there are only two main streets. One goes south to El Centro and Interstate 8 - another 15 miles - and the other goes east to connect to all the off road sand dunes in the desert. We found a Carl's Jr in town and stopped and had a Big Carl for lunch - that also took care of us for dinner. It was unbelievable sitting there eating our sandwich and watching all the toy haulers with their ATV's riding by. The off roading crowd in this part of the state is huge. You have to wonder if anybody is affected by the poor economy because none of these people have been. We eventually made it to the new Walmart store which is one of the largest we've ever seen. It was a Supercenter and because it just opened recently was sparkling clean.

The afternoon was spent doing some more cleanup on the coffee cart that we are getting ready for next weekend. We are just about there in getting it ready and Jeff, the owner, is going to get all the permits, banners and product to be ready for the opening next week. Josie and I will be trained on the equipment on Friday. At least that's the plan. Right now we don't have water or power to the cart so a lot has to be done before we can open for business.

A schedule was finally prepared for the week. At least an attempt at one was made. It has already changed before we even started. Mike, our manager, stopped by last night while walking his dog to ask us to work today, in addition to Tuesday, so that we get more training on the system before they take their days off on Tuesday and Wednesday. We will have off on Wednesday and Thursday, work Friday and Saturday, then have Sunday off. The time we will be working on the coffee cart will be extra time and money. It sounds a little confusing now but will become clearer as we go. We hope...