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

Overall it was kind of a depressing weekend, not very busy at all. Between no shows, cancels, changes in bookings it just wasn’t a very busy weekend. We still had about 10 sites at various times during the weekend, some were here already and left on Saturday, some stayed only one night etc. Considering it was a 30 degree day in July on Sat it was pretty slow. This rain today is certainly not going to help this weekends bookings.

We are doing bit of a movie marathon in the rec building this morning. We are watching Scooby Doo 2 right now and might as well put another one on after this because it is not a great morning to be outside.

The Easter egg hunt went over pretty well. I think that they were all found, but considering we hid 15 dozen there could still be some hiding that we have forgotten about. The craft wasn’t very popular though. We had my two kids, two other girls and one big kid at heart. Easter will become another annual Ducky Event. We even had some teenagers go around and try to find the eggs. They didn’t pick them up, but just marked on the map where they were. We didn’t put an offical age limit, but we did limit the number of eggs they could find until Sunday morning. Sunday some kids were coming in with 20 or so eggs and some adults too.

We officially named our ducks last night. We decided on Molly, Zack and Cody. Not necessarily the most traditional animal names, but we are not the most traditional campground. As you may have guessed they were mostly named by two girlies with my final approval.  Molly is easy to distinguish as she is the little one. Zack and Cody are pretty hard to tell apart right now, we just use the names generically for either duck. they have grown so much in the last few week or so. You could literally see a difference from one day to the next.

Well I think that I have finalized the schedule for the July long weekend. We just added a band on Saturday night. We had one last year and I kind of held off because it is not really a long weekend with the holiday on Tuesday. We finally connected with a guy we know that books bands and he had this one available in our budget. They are a two piece band that plays mainly older rock I believe. They are called Scenic Root.  Hopefully everyone enjoys them. So that means our garage sale is Sat morning, the inflatable bouncer is Sat afternoon, the band is Sat night, Birthday cake is Sun afternoon and fireworks are Sun evening. I still only have one electrical/water site left. For some reason the people that have called don’t want that site. It is one of the ones beside the pool and backing on to the playground. I am assuming it is the location that is holding them back unfortunately. I personally would like the location. Being close to the pool and playground would work perfectly for me with the girls, but I know it all depends on your situation. I did have one of the most popular sites open up with a cancellation this morning. I have already emailed someone that was looking yesterday and I don’t imagine it will take long for me to get rid of it.

I am training a new employee this afternoon. Hopefully the last one I have to train this summer since it is not one of my favorite jobs. I don’t know exactly what it is about the training part that I don’t like, maybe just that there is so much to go over and I am always worried I will forget something.

It didn’t seem to cool down too much last night. At least we didn’t get the thunderstorms that they were forecasting. They are calling for rain on Friday and otherwise hot the rest of the weekend. Maybe by tomorrow they will change it to no rain, that would be much better.

We were out feeding the ducks this morning and one of our little chipmunks decided he wanted some too. He came within about 10 feet of us and grabbed the bread and ran. They are sure getting tame and used to people.

No I didn’t drop off the face of the earth but my internet did. Our modem went down Wednesday night. MTS was out on Friday morning to fix it up but our wireless is still down so I am still attached to a leash basically. Our hardwired jack is located in the house and it is really cramping my style. I am used to using the computer here there and everywhere. Hopefully tomorrow or Wed the wireless will be back online.

Last week managed to fly by extremely fast. Thursday morning I cooked breakfast for the one camping club before they pulled out. The other club was here until Friday morning then those sites quickly filled up with the Warren baseball group. We were quite full this weekend actually.  By my quick count there was over 15 overnight sites which is amazing for  a weekend in June before school is done.  I am excited and a little scared to see just exactly what the summer weekends will bring. Friday night at 10:30pm we had 3 trucks and boats from Minnesota stop in looking for rooms. They were on their way to Grand Rapids and had had enough driving for the day. “A woman with long red hair walking a dog” apparently sent them our way so a thanks to you whoever you are. 

It is nice to see that the weather has turned around and is finally cooperating. Overall it was a good weekend. We did have a storm pass through on Saturday night but it was fortunately short lived. There was quite a bit of hail that came out of it. I heard there was even some snowballs being thrown around after and there were some snow drifts. Just a little something to keep things interesting.

I know that some kids are already done but school is offically finished tomorrow around here. Then it is  time for all the kids to start driving their parents crazy and that summer camping season will also begin.

It looks like I should be off my leash by the end of today. Trying to stay in one spot long enough to type this is proving difficult this morning and it has taken me over an hour to do.

Considering the weekend began with a Tornado warning it turned out pretty good.  The weather wasn’t the warmest, but it was still tolerable. It didn’t seem to stop anyone from going in the pool. We were quite full on Saturday night as we had 4 drive up sites in addition to the reservations. One was a couple from Austria in a truck camper. That must have been quite the drive (?lol). They were able to communicate in English, but it was a little difficult. Our kids rock painting craft went over fairly well. We had about 10 kids come out to give it a try. I hear some of the masterpieces became father’s day gifts.

Today is cleanup and regroup to get ready for two camping clubs coming in tomorrow. We have a load of crushed rock on the way to touch up some areas that have taken a bit of a beating from all the rain that we got last week.   One of the clubs has 15 sites and one room booked. The other club has  7 sites. Hopefully things don’t get too confusing as we try to sort out and regsiter who is with which club. This should make for a busy week around here. The forecast looks like it will be great weather right through the week. Could this be the turning point and summer will be here now?