Wednesday, June 13, 2007

6/9/07 Rally Campers Passing Through

There's a large rally in Branson for Hi-Lo owners starting tomorrow and the campers started coming through our area looking for a place to stay before they travel the last 190 miles.

We have every space filled except for two. We were busy in the office all day registering campers, giving directions, selling ice and other camp store items. The morning flew by for me and Bob's went just as fast as we also had lots of floaters today on the river. He was running the van back and forth transporting canoes and rafts. Today is my split shift day, I work eight to one, am off one to four and then come back till seven.

We did have some excitement this afternoon. Dan and Barb own an old school bus used for transporting the floaters and their belongings, such as coolers, to and from the river. It was parked on the side of the building where there is a slight decline to the road. Evidently the emergency brake didn't hold and it rolled forward. It sideswiped one the floaters trucks and went through a split rail fence and into the ditch . I was off during the time the bus decided to take a trip on its own and Bob came to the trailer to let me know what had happened. I still had about 45 minutes to go before I went back but decided that it would best to see if they needed help. They hadn't heard anything when it happened and a passerby stopped in to let them know that the yellow bus was sticking its rear end up in the air out of the ditch. By the time I had gotten there the wrecker had already been called to pull it out. Now the floater had to be told about the mishap. As it turned out the floater saw her truck before anything could be said but she was very nice and understood that it was an accident and all would be made right. With the bus out of commission for awhile Bob was making trip after trip to the river to pick up floaters and actually put in about an hour and half overtime in.

It seems strange to see the campground so filled knowing that by ten tomorrow morning it will be nearly empty again.

We still haven't caught up on our rest and after such a busy day, once again, we called it an early night.

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