Taking Care of Business

Our first duty of the day yesterday was to drive to Bardstown, KY, for our drug test at the Lab Corp facility there. The information we recieved from Amazon.com indicated that it had to be done prior to starting work, so we complied. The drive was a beautiful one through rolling hills and fabulous farmland where we got a positive feel for how the people live here. There were many homes and properties like this one:

It was just about as we imagined except there weren't many horse farms and we saw mostly cattle - although there were many white fences surrounding these properties that created the "Old Kentucky Home" image.

After finishing our "pee in the cup" exercise, we stopped at a nice family restaurant for some brunch and then went to the visitors center in town. We found out that Bardstown is the bourbon capital of the world. There are 4 bourbon distilleries in and around town and we thought it would be interesting to visit one or more - they each had tasting rooms. As luck would have it, they were all closed - as were the schools and many other businesses - as a result of election day. Bad timing. The town still had many other attractions, such as civil war museums and churches, that will be worthy of visits on a return trip.

We stopped at the Amazon.com building (below) on the way home to try to find somebody that could answer a couple questions we had.

We went in the employee entrance and that is as far as we got. They had a phone there where you call the person you need to talk to. Security was extremely tight. So, we talked to the HR person briefly and then left. We did find out that there will be an orientation on Monday for our group of new hires that have arrived this week. Our start date is suppose to be Nov 7, which is Sunday, so I guess our start will be delayed a few days until they complete all the preliminary details.

We walked around the campground when we returned and took some shots of the campground - one of which is below:

and the miniature golf course (below) which is very unusual. The holes are all played in a straight line around a circle:

We hope to get a chance to play the course sometime while we are here.

Today is cloudy and raining a little bit, so we will most likely stay home and get some things done around the fifth wheel. The weather has been beautiful so we were due for this. Until tomorrow...