The Last Full Day Part 1 Day 8

The Last Full Day  Part 1 

Day 8

September 22. 2019

No blog last night! Nope. Mark and Jenna ( our youngest son and his wife) surprised us yesterday afternoon! I was waiting on customers and happened to look out onto the sidewalk and there they were! The gift shop was full of people and yelled out the window "There's Mark and Jenna Mossner!" Everyone kind of looked at me for a moment, then I said "Hey, they are our kids." Then, the murmur returned to normal. 

Unfortunately, the kids had to wait until we completed our light keeping chores after work before we could go anywhere for dinner. We had a huge day!347 visitors in 7 hours. Whew. That was A LOT of talking all day. The sand? Well, I probably don't have to dwell on the amount of sand we had to keep up on all day on the sidewalk and inside the lighthouse. Mr. Quilter Cook focused on the vacuuming and I did the close out on the register till and luckily we both were done around 6 pm so not too bad. We couldn't just leave it until later. Here, you do what you gotta do. 

We didn't eat at The Jolly Pumpkin restaurant either. By the time we got there, it was packed and the wait too long so we drove down into Traverse City. After Mark's scenic tour of the downtown and protesting from the peanut gallery in the backseat (aka Jenna and Mom) he drove until we found an Olive Garden. It was delightful! I have to say that Jenna's husband training is coming along very nicely.

This am we are both a bit ragged and tired and hoping that the rain that moved in overnight and now forecast to remain ALL DAY will keep some visitors away. Not that we don't want to see them, but to be honest it's the sand. LORD HAVE MERCY! I just don't want to imagine all that crunching  and sliding around with the wet sand all day on the historic wood plank floors. Not to mention the clean-up. Rrrr...but whatever. 

IT'S OUR LAST FULL DAY! We work in the shop 10-5, then OFF tomorrow and then will do a short stint on Tuesday for an hour or so again in the shop and adios. It's been fun, but time to move onto new adventures! After Tuesday, it was great! But we aren't planning to open a retail shop of our own and by the time we leave collectively we will have worked over 120 hours total. Add that to the $200 fee we PAID for the joy of it all and yeah...we've done our job here.

This am we are quickly driving the  7 miles to the gas station/convenience store/deli/restaurant corner to pick up some stuff for lunch and supper. We decided we are doing our move out work tonight- you guessed it--CLEANIING so it's done for Tuesday. Also, with the storms we probably won't want to go anywhere for dinner. 

Tune in tonight! 

The Quilter Cook