Beginning of the End

People have started leaving work as their schedules provided last day obligations earlier than some others. One of the early departures was our "coach" and team supporter - Josh. He did a forced retirement at age 35 when the stock broker offices he managed for Smith Barney went under with the economy and the stock crash. He lost everything, including his house, and he and his wife are traveling the workamper circuit while home educating their kids. Below is a picture of Josh (in the center) along with a couple other of our new friends we made while working at Amazon:

We are allowed to take pictures in our break room, or lunch room, but not allowed to take any on the warehouse floor. This is another shot in our lunch room of 2 people we have become close friends with - Sue and Rodger:

They are from Arkansas and are planning to buy some property in Tennessee near Nashville to be close to family. They have been workamping for a couple years like us and they spent the summer working in North Dakota, of all places.
We will stay in touch with them and they are planning to return again next year. The lunch room is fairly large and, as you can see, has many lockers (one of which is assigned to us) and lots of vending machines. Amazon is very big on providing free water to its employees and there are coolers everywhere with bottled water on ice for the employees to help themselves.

One of the couples we met at work is setting up a dinner at the Creek Side Restaurant that is popular here for today, before work. We decided to stay home and use the time to further mend our weary bodies. Basically, on work days we just get up around 1 PM and rest until getting ready for work again. We are looking forward to having more free time - in 2 more days...