Rockport, Texas
Saltwater Flats RV Resort
Weather Condition; High 81 Low 63, Sunny
We have been busy this week. On Wednesday we went to the post office to
mail a few Christmas gifts and had lunch at The Shack - Bar B Q in Fulton.
Friday we attended a 60th wedding anniversary for our good
friends Charlie and Carol. WOW! Sixty years, that’s a life time. They are a
wonderful couple.
On Saturday we did laundry and ran to the grocery store to pick up a
few last minute items.
Sunday a group of us met for lunch. We went to Butter Churn. It’s a
buffet with home style cooking. We all stuffed ourselves and had a good visit.
Later that afternoon we drove our friends Charlie and Carol to the Corpus
Christi International Airport. They’re flying to Amarillo to spend Christmas
with their daughter and family.
I did skip a day there, Thursday! I skipped Thursday because that was an
interesting day for us. We decided last summer that we would try our luck at
bidding on a gate attendant job with Our Lands and Waters Foundation. We
requested to be placed on the bidders list for summer 2013 season. We received
our bid packet on November 27th. The deadline for bidding was December 18th.
Can I just say that it covered a lot of information? It was 61 pages that
contain information covering the job description and a lot of legal jargon!
We’ve never bid on a job. This was a new experience for us. We didn’t
expect to get the job but at least we would have knowledge for future bidding.
We read the bid packet and talked about it. A week or so later we read
it again. We discussed it and dropped it. A week later we discussed it some
more and sent emails to the contact asking for clarification on a few items. We
read the packet again and had a lengthy discussion. This time we decided to go
for it.
We submitted our bid for 3 different parks on December 10th. We planned on getting a response sometime
after the first of the year.
Thursday morning we received a call informing us that we were awarded
the bid. We couldn’t believe it! We have
a summer job near our home turf.
The job is gate attendant at a Corps of Engineers lake. This park has
23 RV sites, day use pavilion and 2 boat ramps. The hours are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
4 days on and 4 days off. Our contract dates are April 1st to
September 30th. We are looking forward to the experience and the
extra cash will be nice too. We will be paid for our hours and provided with an
RV site with utilities and storage building.
We were going to spend most of our summer in the area anyway due to a
few events that we were planning on attending so we’ll be getting paid for
being in the area, how sweet is that?!