Sports news story of the day – Kyle Landry
headed for school and football camp today!
Okay, not very exciting for most of us
either; but that is a big deal for all teen guys in this town with dreams of
college football glory. Kyle isn’t at a
top-tier college with a chance to win national titles, but he is the best
player on his team – just as Lee was back in his college days; and he’s
good-enough to play with pretty much any other top-tier player.
His travel day likely wasn’t all that
exciting – at least until he got on campus; but then my day hasn’t exactly been
all fun and games. Michael and I worked
the breakfast shift; we both put in extra time helping with other jobs around
the Inn after that; and I worked on the family business and some chores at home
when not at the Inn – though we did both take some time off during our main
afternoon break. That was when Ethan,
Ehlana, Naomi, and Aiden talked us into a camping night – the camping that I’ll
be getting to as soon as I’m finished this computer check and journal
update. We set up the tents; the four
kids took care of getting most of the gear into the tents; and we went for a
swim and a trip to the Emporium for ice cream after that work was finished.
The dinner shift was really busy; in part
because Miranda and Stephanie have another weekend getaway group staying at the
Inn; but word seems to be getting around even more quickly than they’d hoped
that we have two world-class chefs at the Inn; and we’re getting a lot of new
weekend dinner customers from all of the towns around here. That’s fairly awesome, but adds more stress
and work as Miranda and Stephanie are struggling a bit to work out the staffing
levels they’ll need with the extra space in the dining rooms and the expected
business that is above expectations right now.
They don’t want to hire more people than they’ll need after the summer
holidays; but still need to ramp up to what might end up being half-again as
many employees as they had before the remodel.
I do have that camping to get to now; so
let’s save that kind of business chat for another time. The only news from the Inn is really that we
were really busy; Michael and I pretty much stayed until close – though we didn’t
actually have to do that; and then we split up to grab showers and get changed
before heading out back to spend the rest of the night with our junior
campers. They didn’t do a campfire, but
did spend some time with Mom and Dad tonight while Michael and I were busy at
the Inn. Two of us are working the
breakfast shift again, and Ehlana and Naomi have a ball game in the morning; so
we won’t be staying up too late.
We’ll only have that one ball game this
weekend, but while it would be nice to have some bonus play time without the
extra game watching; I’m sure that I’ll be putting in more time at the Inn when
I can; and Dad and I have some chores to catch up on tomorrow too.
None of that sound all that exciting for
the last weekend of July, but we’ll have fun with and around the work too; and
I’ll keep saving up all of the extra money so that we’ll be able to do
everything we want when we head for college next summer!
Now that’s a thought that reminds me to
enjoy every special moment I can with the twins and their friends! I’m going to go and do that right now; so,
until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
