Rubber Ducky Resort & Campground – A family campground located in Warren, near Winnipeg, Manitoba

I got an ‘after’ picture of Jeff all cleaned up. He looks like a brand new man. But, the big question – will the mullet come back?

I don’t know if anyone else has been watching the weather forecast as closely as I have this week but the only thing that has not been forecasted is snow. We have gone from sunny and 26 to rain and 20 and now I think we are sitting at thundershowers and 24 or 28 depending on which forecast you look at. Give them an hour and they change it. If the all day rain will stay away it would be very helpful. I could live with showers, but of course that sunny and 26 would be perfect.

We didn’t get quite as much done yesterday as I had hoped, so today will be a busier day than I had hoped. We did get our sucker pull game done though. The girlies had fun helping to stick the suckers in too. I think that will be a poplular game, all they have to do is pull a sucker out and if they get one with a black spot on it they win a bigger prize. If not they get to keep the sucker. All the games are set up so that everyone who plays wins at least a small prize, then if you ‘win’ the game you get a bigger prize.

Everyone cross your finger, toes and whatever else you got that the weather cooperates. Cause if it doesn’t we are gonna have a lot of food left over. We have upped the number of people that we plan for supper so they better come now.

Well the schedule is finalized.

DuckyFest 2008

Schedule

If you would like to volunteer to help with the games see the sign up sheet at the office. Thank you.

9:00-10:00 am – Breakfast (sausage, bacon, eggs, pancakes, coffee, juice)

                             Adults $5.00

                             Kids 4-12 $3.50

                   Tickets can be purchased at the office anytime

All Weekend – Kiddie Train. $5 wristband includes unlimited train and bounceroo or 75c per ride.

Approx 11:00am – Silent Auction will be set out in the rec building. Draw will be approx 8:30pm

Lunchtime – Home made French Fries will be cooking. $2.25 each

1:00-4:00pm – Carnival style games near the playground. (everyone wins a prize)

2:00-4:00pm – Inflatable Bounceroo. $5 wristband includes unlimited train and bounceroo or 75c per bounce.

4:30pm – Country dance lessons by Allan Nelson’s Ballroom and Country Dance Company. FREE. (Near the picnic shelter)

5:00 and 6:00 – Baron of Beef Dinner will be served in two sittings. Includes roast beef, baked potato, baked beans, coleslaw, rolls.

                             Adults $15.00

                             Kids 6-12 $6.50

          Advance tickets must be purchased from the office all weekend.

7:00pm – Circuit Breaker will be on the picnic shelter stage

All proceeds from the breakfast, drink machine, silent auction, train/bounceroo wristbands, 50/50 draw, day passes and $2 from each dinner go directly to the Children’s Wish Foundation.

*We will do our best to maintain the above time schedule, but due to unforeseen circumstances times may change. We ask for your patience if this occurs.

After a weekend of pouring rain and wind and dealing with the financial outcomes of losing the sign this was nice to find in my inbox.

Guest Book Entry from kim orr from southport mb

have fallen in love with your campground,even if it rains and the wind blows 70km++ still a great place to be..kids LOVE it..happy kids=happy parents..

This was a family that were tenting here this past weekend and have been here a few other weekends as well. I am glad to see that even with hiding out in the rec building from the rain and all their stuff getting soaking wet there were still some good points. They had taken a late checkout on Sunday so were able to at least enjoy that day.

We now have a redneck sort of sign. They were nice enough to leave the reflective ‘camping’ sign behind, so Dennis took a sheet of plywood and attached that to the top.

We have another camper that is stopping here on their way to Alaska. It’s funny that all of a sudden in the last month or so we have had 3 different groups on their way North to Alaska. These ladies are from Michigan and are planning to be gone for 3 months.

Someone stopped in on Sunday to tell us that our sign was knocked down, so Dennis goes out ready to put it back up. It’s gone?! Someone pulled the sign part out and left the holder behind. So if anyone happens to see a 4′ by 8′ sign with a big Rubber Ducky on it please let us know. We are planning to offer a reward for its return. Hopefully someone, somewhere will have seen or heard something. It’s not really something you can hide or hang on your basement wall. We don’t quite understand why someone would find pleasure in this. I have had people comment to me that we should have more signs. This should answer the question as to why we don’t. This is actually the 2nd sign that has been stolen.

Clear blue skies and bright sunshine was sure a nice sight this morning. Yesterday was downright depressing. Noone went near the pool until around 8:30 last night and then we figure they must have just given up on the rain stopping and decided to just swim anyway. At least the pool was warm, just the trip back to the camper would be a little chilly. Needless to say noone tried fishing yesterday. Sounds like our tenters were a little water logged. The one family spent a good portion of the day in the rec building. We had a not bad turnout for the ice cream social – 8 people. Considering it was a miserable day I would call that a success. The one nice thing about the ice cream social for me is that it doesn’t matter how many people show up. I don’t really have to do anything extra and nothing goes to waste because it is all stuff that will keep or get used. The craft didn’t go over at all, no one showed up. It looks like we will be phasing out craft time, but I still have a couple more days scheduled so we will see.

The long term forecast for Duckyfest is showing sunny and 26. I hope they are right, that sounds just about perfect.

Dennis went out to feed the fish last night and there was a momma deer standing in the canola watching him. We haven’t seen much sign of the deer lately but obviously they are still here. A couple years ago you would always see them crossing the road from one bush to the other. In the spring I did see some tracks near the fish pond, but this is the first sign we have seen for months. Now we will have to really keep watch for tracks around the pond.

Today is the last official day for swimming registration but I am sure I will get some late registrations. Including my kids we have 38 kids registered already. I have a couple people that I still have to touch base with to confirm the details but I know they are planning to register. So I am looking at being over 45 kids for the session. Make that 39, I just got another phone call. Next is the fun job of figuring out the schedule. I try to accommodate as many time requests as possible, but that can be difficult sometimes.