September 2, 3, & 4th, 2011

Friday 2~~~~~The park is full of campers every day all week. Only a couple of campers leave each day and the spot is filled right away, with a lot of people turned away because of no room. We don't have many days to work here, the time sure went fast. We still don't have confirmation on our camp ground reservations in Albuquerque, New Mexico for the annual hot air balloon festival we want to go to. We are number 5 on the list for a campsite and it is not looking good. So maybe we won't be going south after we get done here. I myself would like to stay in Oregon and go to the beach house for a couple of weeks and then stay in Salem for a couple and then back to the beach house until we leave in December. Just about dinner time, over the park radio we heard a call for all hosts and Rangers to look for a missing 5 Year old boy. The Park does a very good job teaching all of us all what to do and where to do it as quick as we can. We each call out what section of the park we are covering and who is to go to the front gate to check all cars that might be leaving the park and we call out what area we have cleared. The host couple over by the river found the little boy down by the river playing in the water. They called it in on their radio and we were all happy we had another happy ending. We usually have about six of these missing kids each summer and this was our second one this week. Saturday 3~~~~Another slow day for work, which makes me happy!! The mornings are very cool and it feels like fall is around the corner, it gets quite warm in the afternoon and then cool when the sun goes down. Kent and I watched some movies we had recorded today and the Oregon Ducks football game. After Mass tonight, we picked up some broasted chicken and joes and ate dinner at home. There is a lot of activities in the park with it being a holiday week end. They had a couple of Pirate scavenger hunts today for the children, two different age groups and music with a band playing all afternoon and then tonight a sing a long and the skit with Big Foot making an appearance, the kids love big foot.
Tomorrow there will be more music and a big water fight in the ball field for all the guests and hosts and rangers and a class on Geo-caching. A lot of people will leave tomorrow, so we will have a lot of sites to clean and get ready for the last hurrah before school. Sunday 4~~~~Not all the sites today filled, so it was a quiet day for us hosts. Kent and I watched several movies we had and I did some organizing in my special box that I keep all my Christian books about the Saints and other material I have gathered over the years and did some reading. Again we had just finished dinner when another call for a missing 7 year old little girl came over the radio, she was riding a scooter, had a pink helmet and a polka dotted shirt. Kent and I called in we would cover the play ground;we were just about there when we saw a little blond haired girl with a scooter, pink helmet and a polka dot shirt about to cross the road from the play ground onto the camp loop road . We stopped and asked her what her name was and we called it in to all the hosts that we found her and she was OK. The host with the family gave us their location and we drove the little girl to them. On the way there we came across all the kids in her family who were out looking for her and hadn't heard that we found her. They were so excited and they all ran behind our golf cart back to their parents, yelling at her that she was in BIG trouble with mom and daddy. LOL We again were happy we found her so fast and this made three missing kids in less that a week. Kent and I went home and finished the dishes, filled 2 wood carts with wood and then we went to the amplitheatre where a three man band was playing the best OLD country music from the fifties and sixties I have heard in years. It was all the old songs that Jan and I used to sing when we were in high school on the school bus going to the ball games. Of course I sang right along with the band and had a great time. Tomorrow is our day off, so we are going into Salem and I am taking Lisa out for her late June birthday dinner. I don't know what else we are going to do, but we will be busy I know that.