Catching up

Just realized my last post was back in October!! Wow! So I thought it was time update it.

Our time at Amazon went fast after the Halloween holiday.  They were having some trouble finding workers up at the warehouse in Indiana so about 100 of the work campers who were in Kentucky moved out and headed to campgrounds just above Louisville. After that happened a lot of us remaining were shifted to other positions.  Since we had done ICQA (inventory control) before, that’s where we finished out our time.  We finished up on the 19th of December and headed to Livingston.

The weather there was horrible.  We were there 21 days and I think we saw the sun twice in that time.  We went through a tank of propane because it was so cold. (we didn’t use our electric heater because we have to pay our own electric). 

We spent a great weekend in San Antonio with good friends, David and Noreen Becker.  We worked with them for 2 years in New York and they joined us in 2012 at Amazon.  We spent Saturday walking around the Alamo and River walk.  Had lunch at Buckhorn Saloon and toured the Texas Ranger Museum.  Sunday we hung around the park and watched the football games.

 

We left Monday and headed back to Humble, Texas.  Ed is having some issues with a high calcium level.  He was sent to an endogrinogist who wanted him to do some other testing.  He had more blood work done and had a bone density test.  Still waiting for results.

We moved on to Pass Christian, Mississippi.  I really love the area here.  When Ed and I win the lottery we have found our next sticks and brick house. House with a view!!!

     
Looked it up on Zillow.  Only 12.5 million!!! 15 bedrooms!! Enough for my whole family!!

One evening we had dinner at Shaggy’s.  Sign says its the best seafood dive!! Ed had the shrimp basket and I had the chicken basket.  We were going to have the fish, but we found out it was catfish so we passed. Neither of us is fond of catfish. But the shrimp was very good as was the chicken.  As you can see, we had enough food!!

      
We are on the move again…..this time Robertsdale, Alabama just the other side of Mobile.

Halloween fun

We have worked for the past 4 years with good friends Al and Jan Schwartz.  Jan LOVES Halloween and celebrates the whole month of October.  Since we will be working on Halloween next Friday, she had her gathering last night.  Even though we worked yesterday, it was our last day for the week.  Jan had everyone over to her place for some Halloween Chili.  
           
We can’t have wood fires here at the park, but that didn’t stop us from having fires.  Seems the thing to do is head to Lowes and get these little propane firepits.

They are really nice, put off the heat without the smoke!!! If only I had room for one, but alas, our bins are stuffed to the max!!!

Our hostess with the mostest!!!!!
A great way to relax after 4 long days.

3 weeks down…13 to go!

We have survived our first 40 hour week.  Amazon starts their Camper force out working 5 hrs a day for the first 2 weeks.  This is what they refer to as “work hardening”.  We would get up at 4 am to get to work to start at 6 am.  We would get off at 11 am.  Then we would fight to stay awake for the next 5 hours so that we would be tired enough to go to bed at 8pm!  That was harder that actually working the 10 hours. 

This past week was our first week at 10hrs a day.  We start work at 6 am, have our first break at 8:30 am and are eating our lunch at 10:30am! We are stowing this year, which means we take the carts the receivers fill up and find places to put the merchandise.  So far, it hasn’t been to bad.  Only bad thing…I’ve got two blisters on my feet.  In all the years we have put in at Amazon, this is the first time that this has happened!! So I just went out and bought some new socks.  Hopefully that will solve the problem. 

Last night, we all went out to Garcia’s, a local mexican restaurant, to celebrate our first 40 hr week.

 

These friends are one of the reasons why we keep coming back.  Like family coming together once a year.  We will do this many times as the weeks progress because more “family” will be arriving each week.