Wrapping Up The Final Day

It was a day of more complaints and more confusion. It was also a day of the mass exodus for the Easter weekend crowd and the Summer Program crowd that had to leave on Sundays. Our day was a short one - 8 AM until 2 PM - although we worked a couple hours longer than we had planned. There was lots to do, so it wasn't that we tried to stretch it into more hours. Also, the "temp" manager had pizzas brought in for the whole staff which was a nice gesture. They didn't arrive until around 1:30, so it was good timing.

The biggest complaint we had to deal with yesterday was regarding the closure of the swimming pool in the morning. There were so many people using the pool on Saturday that the water was cloudy and desperately needed a chemical treatment - and they sent someone to Home Depot  (10 miles away) to get chemicals, treat the pool and reopen it by noon. Once again, there is no excuse to have that happen. First of all, they knew they had an excessive number of people in the pool on Saturday and it would need treatment immediately, and secondly, they should have had chemicals on hand to handle the task.

We left the door open for coming back here to work in the winter months which is suppose to be a much better time to be here. Also, a new permanent manager will be in place and the Resort should be on the right track to being a pleasant place to work. We are leaving on good terms which is important for us to do everywhere we work.

Today will be a day for making final arrangements for our travel plans and getting everything ready to go for tomorrow AM. We gassed up the truck and washed both vehicles after work yesterday. We still have to gas up the Jeep and we will do that when go to the grocery store to pick up travel goodies. The grocery store that we use - Winn Dixie - has a discount fuel program (called Fuelperks!) that gives a discount on gas purchases for certain items purchased in the store, and for total amounts of money spent on your grocery bill. The "perks" are redeemed at the local Shell station and I was able to purchase 20 gallons of diesel fuel at a $.45 discount off the regular price of $4.29/gal. It amounted to a $9 savings on those 20 gallons which helps. It's just too bad that the limit is 20 gallons. It still amounts to enough to get us to Edgewater with the fuel I had left over from our trip here. We will try to stay somewhere near Ft Lauderdale tomorrow night and drive to Edgewater (probably Daytona Beach) on Wednesday. We'll fill you in on the details as we finalize the plan. That's about it for now...