Good First Day

Our first day on the new job went very well. We met Terry at 8 AM in the office and jumped right in filling out the paperwork for employment. That was all wrapped up in about a half hour and we then each got a cup of coffee and sat down at the front desk and began learning the system. The system that is used here is Campground Manager which is the same system we used at Happy Jack. It didn't take us long to get in the flow of things and Terry was very happy that he didn't have to "train" new people. The differences here are all positive so far. The policies are very customer friendly and it's a pleasure to work where the almighty dollar is secondary to creating satisfied customers. I mentioned before that there is a free continental breakfast and free newspaper to each guest every morning. That is so rare in campgrounds and usually only found in hotels.

We feel, right now at least, that this is going to be a very pleasant stay and that the relationship with Premier RV Resorts may develop into a long term relationship. The day flew by and Josie and I both checked in customers and made sales in the store. We will open this morning at 7:30 and work again until around 5 PM.

The only negative for us so far is the weather. We have had over an inch of rain the last 2 days but the real negative is the high winds that we've had. Yesterday we had high gusts of 22 MPH and already today we have had 26 MPH gusts. We hope that this is just an occasional situation and not the norm. Temperatures are in the 50's during the day but we know that will change soon. That is one thing we knew about the Pacific Northwest - count on rain and cool temperatures until around June every year. But after that, it is absolutely beautiful and pleasant. We are certainly looking forward to those days. That's about it for now...