The sun is starting to shine about 1 hour a day in the afternoon
now, it is still misty in the mornings and most of the day cloudy,
the air is damp all of the time here, they say this is the most rain
this area has had in a decade about 38" inches so far. The
temp is around 65 during the day and 55 at night, if it wasn't for
the dampness, that makes you feel cooler, it would be great. I
am getting used to it, not minding it as much as I did.
We had a great time with Marge and Bob in Astoria, took the
trolley and explored the Maritime Museum, had a great lunch at the
Bowpicker, and went up
to the Column to see Astoria, here you can see all around the 3
rivers and the bridge,
you can walk
up inside the column about 184 steps to see more if you want.
Take a look at the
photos
We move back to Long Beach on Wednesday for 3
weeks and then onto Elma, WA till the 15th of Sept. then we come
back here at Seaside before heading south. Hope everyone is
having a great summer and relaxing before that drive south. We
should be in Indio around the 29th of October and hopefully will
stay the winter. I know I will see a lot of you down there so
if you are needing business cards or more puzzles CD's let me know
and I will have them ready for you.
When we get to Long Beach
there will not be an update as we are on roaming and they are slower
then snails. Takes too long to upload, will update again when
we get to Elma, until then keep smiling and enjoying the great
outdoors. Love Carol
the park has changed,
since they no longer have work campers, employees only, do
they not like their job? Some are
very augmentative, others seem to not care. One
example when I asked the housekeeper person who looks after
the pool area if they could raise the temperature about 2
degrees so that it was warmer in the mornings she gave a
very loud why the manager would not allow her to do it.
She came across like she did not care, she went on to say
how busy she is doing everything from mopping to pool
bathrooms etc. She says she does not have enough hours
in the day to complete her work. Then we go to
the spa which by the way she has just told us it was checked
and it looked bad due to high usage Saturday night.
Susan turned on the jets and oh my, there was looked like
vomit coming to the top, I know what you are thinking didn't
she just say she checked it? The pool is closed
everyday from 1-2 for cleaning so why is she putting cold
water in the pool in the morning and why does the pool and
spa look so bad? Susan & I both
looked at each other and went what the ....is going on with
this park all of a sudden. I would suggest you bring a
test kit if you are going into the spa or pool.
Is it us? Guess not
just talked with several people and they too don't like what
is happening, have not talked with the manager will on Tuesday too
see what he says.
When going to breakfast on
Saturday, usually you have a great meal ,a little pricy, but
you don't have to drive and the food is decent, however, there
again the cook was telling us that we could not get hash
browns due to the fact so many people ordered pancakes, now
think about this if you can't get hash browns because the
grill is full of pancakes, then what are you going to order
since hash browns cannot fit on the grill due to the
pancakes, does any of this make since, several of us looked
at each other and said "WHAT" Why isn't the
grill split into three areas one for pancakes, one for the eggs and
one for the hash browns?
Next we go to the little
store here in the park, happened to be open so we went to see
what they had, it will be closing according to the clerk, since it
did not make money, the hours for it are 4-8 PM on Friday and 11-5
Saturday and Sunday closed the rest of the time, how would you make
money when it is never opened? they had 25% off a lot of things,
Susan asked about the picnic table covers and was told since all RV
parts where not on sale, since when did picnic covers become an RV
part? Can you place it into the engine, can you use it for
tires, I don't understand how this is an RV part, could someone
enlighten me.
Maybe everyone was having a bad weekend after
all the sun did come out today, they might not know how to be happy
with sun.
The park is still well maintained and
the people at the gate are wonderful, some of the ground
crew are friendly but the ones you do see almost everyday
such as housekeeping act like they do not want you here.
OK I vented, as you guessed we are back here at Seaside, I
still love the park and the surrounding area, just not what is
happening to it, too bad work campers are not allowed as they did
know what RV'ers wanted and they were friendly and everything
including the pool was clean.
We are going with Marge & Bob,
friends from TT in Palm Desert, they live here in Astoria, to
explore Astoria tomorrow so should have lots of new photos. Will
update again on Thursday so check back
Thanks for letting me
vent, and yes the weather is turning wonderful it got to 72 today
and there was sun and clouds made for a great day.
