4 Apr

Our guest finally arrived but five hours earlier than scheduled. Just as everyone was settled down for the night - in preparation for the EARLY arrival of our visitors we received a call that they were about 1 hour away. So, about 55 minutes later we passed the word that our visitors would be arriving in the next 30 minutes -figured they would be late so I let the troops sleep as much as possible before we woke them. Needless to say we were jumping through hoops to get the reception party in-place prior to the Soldiers entering the front gate and sure enough they arrived about 40 minutes after the troops were given the reveille call. The reception, inspection, and movement of visitors to their rooms only took 3 hours - much better then the 6 hours from the previous group. All in all it was not too bad - we all got to bed around 3 AM so at least we had some rest before the gobble of our local turkeys woke us up. Another long day but much smoother then our previous "check-in" experiences. Have a good day