Happy Monday! I hope none of you came down with a case of
the Mondays today. I thought I may have fallen to that illness when the
National Park Service chainsaw crew woke me up today at 6:45 when they started
their work…pretty much right outside the window. However, it turned out to be a false alarm. The
Mondays went away and today ended up being a great Monday.
I opened the information booth today to a muggy Maine
morning. The National Weather Service forecasted today’s high to be 64 degrees.
By 9am it was already 65. Our high topped out around 84. The dew point stayed
around 60 so it wasn’t a truly muggy day. However, I have a sneaky suspicion a
dog day of summer may come bounding up the eastern seaboard every once and a
while this summer.
The lunch crowd came in hot and heavy today, so we subdued them
by starting a wait list. Jami taught me the crucial art of being speedy but not
rude when it comes to getting through a line of to-be wait listees. The proper
procedure is as follows: (Said as typing into the computer) “Hello, last name
please?...Party size?...Inside, outside, or first available?...Need any special
seating accommodations like a high chair or booster seat?...Very good, when
this pager rings (at this point hand the guest the pager. And record what
number it is. That step is crucial) take it to the host station located through
the doors over there (make sure to point to the left and not to the right.
There are no double doors to the right so that would confuse people).
The big accomplishment of the day: confronting the owners of
a 25’ RV that thought it’d be alright to park in the grass. For the record, it
is not. The proper place to park an RV is in the designated RV parking spaces
in the north parking lot.
The best question from a guest so far this season happened
today: “Is it true that you only serve tacos now?” It took Jami and me a minute
to figure out where this question came from. We finally figured out through a
series of follow-up questions the gal had been told by someone that because
Oretaga was the parent company of Dawnland (the company now running the Jordan
Pond House under the Park Service contract), that means the restaurant only
serves Ortega-brand Mexican food. For the record, we do not only serve tacos.
Nor do we serve any tacos.
This evening I played on the victorious team for men’s
volleyball night. I also began to formally work on my sermon/message for the
worship services this Sunday. Pray for me over the next few days to win more
volleyball games and to be receptive, open, and responsive to the guidance of
the Holy Spirit as I prepare for Sunday.
The photo of the day is a view of Bar Harbor and Frenchman’s
Bay from the vantage of the Cadillac Mountain Summit. Enjoy!
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