A Day Off!

Well, hello again! Two blog entries in less than two weeks? What's going on? haha

Today was our 'day off' ! I never used to understand why my mom and dad would have such a difficult time relaxing when they were home from work. Well, it's now beginning to make sense. :) Even on our day off, D and I ended up doing work related things. We dropped a box of yogurt off @ the shop, then took some paperwork up to the city regarding our permit for an outdoor seating area.  We then went looking for Ross Park ( located in West laffy)  and spent the afternoon hiking in the woods.  D has been wanting to go mushroom hunting. One of our employees sent us a picture of a morrell mushroom that she and her family found and he's been wanting to find one ever since.  haha  While we didn't find any mushrooms, we *did* have a fun time hiking through the woods.  The hiking trails were barely existent so it was almost as if we were really lost in the woods. haha There were a ton of trees down and the path was overgrown, so we were climbing over fallen logs and being slapped in the face by tree branches. I will be extremely surprised if one of us doesn't have poison ivy or a tick. On our way back to civilization, we stopped by a public entrance to the Wabash river, which was pretty cool.  I had actually never been to this particular neck of the woods before. I really enjoyed it!

After our adventure, we stopped by a local Mexican grocery store to check out their produce and then headed to HuHot for dinner. I love this place---it's a Mongolian Self-serve Grill where you create your own stir fry and watch while the grillmaster cooks it on this giant turntable. My favorite part is that it's pretty healthy! We then stopped by Hobby Lobby to look for a few things and headed home.  I've spent the majority of the evening working on housework and updating the wally facebook.

Here are a few photos from our day:

@ The beginning of the trail

We climbed over that giant log

A cute little stream!

Near fishing spot

Dinner!

I've finally had a chance to start uploading some pictures from my phone to my flickr account. So I will now be able to post some of the ones that I've taken over the past few weeks/months. But it will have to be another day because I'm getting sleepy!

Night, everyone!

Waffles! :)

Well, I'm back! I know I've been MIA for the past few months, but it's been so CRAZY with everything going on @ TPW that I just haven't had any time to update.  It's hard to believe that we've been open for about 4 months already! Things are slowly coming together with the staffing, decor, paperwork, etc. We're definitely more organized than we were @ the start, but still have a ways to go.  D's brother, Larry, has been here since late February. He's helping us out by managing in the mornings. We've also hired a couple people to clean over night so that our regular employees don't have to stay so late. In the beginning we were staying there sooo late. We wouldn't get out of there until at least 1 am and then we would have to get up and be there early in the AM. We were working day and night! We're still working a lot, but actually can go home and relax and then have a good night's sleep!

Our regular night time cleaner is only available  M-F, so we've been looking for a weekend cleaner. Finally, found one that we're trying out on a trial basis. This was her first weekend so we had a late night last night and then again tonight. We didn't get home until 4:30am yesterday, but got out around 2:30 tonight.

We're starting a new feature called "In the Spotlight" where we interview a different employee every few weeks. One of our employees, Luke, is a budding videographer, so he's helping us video tape the  interviews and we'll then post them on FB. Tonight was our first interview! I wasn't expecting to be on camera so much, I figured the focus would be more on Haley, so I found it a little nervewracking. I'll be interested to see how it turns out!

Well, I just finished eating some waffles and I think I'm going to head to bed. I've been obsessed with these waffles called Eggo Mixed Berry Thick n Fluffy. They're so good that I eat them without syrup or anything! Yuum!

Okay, well Goodnight, all! :)