Bethpage Visit and BBQ

Our plan yesterday was to go to the sister park - Bethpage - to play some miniature golf and have some ice cream at the ice creamery there. When we arrived there, we discovered that the course and store were not yet open for the season. Bummer. They are on the same schedule as we are (of course) and will not fully open all facilities until this weekend. So, we just drove around the park to see the differences:

The park is very similar to ours except it is much larger. Actually, it is about 4 times larger. They have over 500 spaces that they have available for weekenders, even though their number of spaces for seasonal campers may be less than we have. Everything else is much larger, including the water park:

and the pond (lake) for paddle boats:

We are happy to be where we are as we hear that it becomes unbelievably busy here in the summer, to the point that the workers barely have time to think. We may be in the same situation beginning Memorial Day weekend, but I think we will have a better chance to maintain control.

We followed that with a visit to a small town - Gloucester (birthplace of Walter Reed) - where we found a family owned ice cream shop and stopped to have a cone to satisfy our craving for ice cream. We didn't spend much time there before returning to prepare for our neighborhood BBQ in the evening.

There were about 16 people that showed up for our little BBQ:

and we had a great time visiting with all the folks that work at our campground.

It's off to work again this morning. We work 8 AM till 1 PM today and tomorrow, and we will get another schedule that will have our times for the next week. Friday is still part of this week, but the schedule was left open until our manager could see how everybody worked and what their preferences were. Our schedule will begin to show more hours as the summer season nears. Until tomorrow...