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

Other than a few tenting sites we are completely booked for this weekend. All of our rooms are even booked out during the weekend. This is a good breakthrough for us as they have not been as busy as we had hoped. They have had their good weekends for sure, but this year there seems to be a lot more awareness that they are here. Although we are full and it will be busy this weekend, we say it is a good kind of busy. The majority of campers we already know either from them having stayed with us before or just know them personally. So I am not forseeing any major ‘issues’ this weekend  and it will be as relaxing as a long weekend can get. The weather seems to have straightened around which is going to make things more enjoyable for everyone.

We are slowly working through our to-do lists to get things ship shape and ready to go. Today will be the last day to do the ‘work’ part. We had one camper arrive last night and another two more are coming tonight. So, the weekend is getting off to an early start. We have had a couple from Alberta staying here since Monday and they have just booked for tonight as well.  There was also another lady who came in on Monday that I have to tip my hat to. She has been travelling in a small class C for the past 8 months or so – just her and her dog. She was telling us that she has been to Florida, spent the winter in Arizona and then to California. She managed to find her way through here on her way back home to Ontario, (near Toronto I believe).  She left here on Tuesday and spent the day at Oak Hammock Marsh, then decided to come back for another night. From what I gather she has been visiting friends and family along the way. It takes a lot of courage to do all that travelling on her own. I don’t know many people that would do something like that.

Well we had to do one of the toughest parts of owning a campground tonight. It was time to test drive the hot tub and make sure it was suitable for paying customers. And, the good news is that it is just as relaxing as ever.

This weekend is supposed to be nicer weather wise than last, but yet we have only one campsite booked and last weekend we had 5. They still clain the sun will shine this afternoon and I hope so it is still quite chilly out now. At least the long term says it will keep warming up until the long weekend.

I didn’t know that we offered winter camping. As I sit here looking outside the ground is getting whiter and whiter. Snow in May – What’s up with that? I think it is time to band together to fight Mother Nature. We should pick a day and time- let’s say Thursday May 8 at 9:00- and everyone stop what they are doing to cross their fingers and wish upon a star for HOT HOT weather. Ok it is probably not going to help, but it certainly won’t hurt.

We were having a pretty good weekend considering the weather. We have 5 overnight sites come out to kick off the camping season. Two of them are actually sleeping in t t tents. I shiver just trying to type it. Quite a few of the seasonals were out yesterday to check on their campers after the winter and two stayed the night. We had one new seasonal bring their camper in yesterday and another head out. We rented our first garden plot yesterday as well.

Saturday morning was our welcome back coffee break. We had a couple campers come out for the freebies, but I was surprised that more didn’t come. Geri also brought some delicious birthday cake for Metro’s big day so we had that with our coffee as well. It was movie night in the evening and we watched Dan in Real Life. I missed the first half, but what I did see was pretty good.  Next week is movie night again but I’m not sure yet what the movie will be. I kind of wait till I see what type and age of crowd we have here before I make a final decision.

Needless to say things are pretty slow around the concession building this morning. Other than coming in to get water everyone seems to be hiding in their campers. We have one tent and one camper staying for another night and one other camper taking advantage of our pay as you go camping. (leaving the camper parked here until next weekend) The other tenting people just headed out the driveway, that couldn’t have been much fun packing up this morning.

Hopefully this nasty white stuff stops soon. Remember Thursday 9:00pm – tell all your friends.

I just read an article that says that Tuesday is the most productive day of the week. The reasoning is that on Monday we are still doing stuff from last week and on Wednesday we have already started adding things to our to-do list. So on Tuesdays we have the most time to complete tasks on our lists. So – how was your Tuesday? Was it productive? I would have to say our Tuesday was fairly productive. We spent the morning in Winnipeg picking up supplies; Dennis got the heat pumping into the pool!!! and this afternoon I got finished my flower bed project. I think that I would tend to agree about Tuesdays.

What a thing to see on the computer this morning – Winter Storm Watch. That’s just not right!!! It is the end of April and they say there is a snow storm coming. We have the water pumping in the pool, some people were going to come camping this weekend – how can it snow? Last year at this time the kids wore shorts to our girls birthday party and this year they need snow suits. Makes you wonder why we live in Manitoba. If what the weather network says is true it sounds like at least we are not going to be the hardest hit. Let’s all keep our fingers and toes crossed that we only get rain here. But, we all know how accurate the weather forecast (LOL).