This is a very busy week for us, and this is my first chance all week to sit down and write to you. Our Community Center is booked all week long with 3 different functions happening! Firstly, there are people upstairs in the Palace having a leadership meeting. We have around 30 guests booked in that function. The Palace is set up with a U shape tables in place and round tables with table cloths in the back of the room for eating.
We have a big breakfast buffet ready for them each day at 7am. With fresh fruit and big fat muffins that are a variety of blueberry, cream cheese, strawberry and the occasional gooey chocolate. Also we have hot breakfast tacos - sausage and egg, choriso and egg (which is Mexican sausage) and potato and egg also. There is oatmeal and granola bars with fresh orange, apple or cranberry juices to drink. Then they have Starbucks coffees, teas and 5 kinds of sodas all day with a noon meal that is catered in. And in the afternoon they have a snack time that we provide also. Today it's Trail mix and Spunkmeyer cookies. Their day ends around 4 each day. Today I am the hostess for this event and will be taking care of our guests and whatever they may need during the course of their day. It's hard to take pictures when things are completed - so you will have to look at them before each breakfast bar is quite ready.
Downstairs in the Gym, we have 125 plus guests here for an event all day. They also have a complete breakfast bar set up along with Starbucks coffee and sodas all day. It takes 2 hostesses to take care of this many guests - in one thirty minute period the whole table can be wiped out of food! So these girls have to be on their toes constantly. For the typical break-time - all of these hungry guests wipe out dozens of muffins, drinks, tacos and fruits instantly. Sometimes there are special needs such as a quiet office space for a telephone conference call for a executive member, or copies of various information to be made - such as 65 copies - stapled and correlated in 10 minutes please.
It's exciting and fun keeping up. Our double gym has round tables set up with table clothes, as well as the other half of the gym is open for their team training exercises. Then lunch arrives and a quick changeover happens and the food lines get set up and food is ready for this group in short order.
Then in one of our business rooms, another meeting is taking place all week long as well. Our city newspaper is hosting business meetings here with each of the business owners in our town. So they have their own refreshment table complete with goodies and drinks also - and their own hostess to take care of them. They have media presentations happening all day long and clients lined up down the hallway waiting for their turn. It so happens that we have a big picture wall in that large hallway- and sometimes people recognize me and I can see their eyes look at the wall, then back at me as I walk through greeting our guests. It's great to stop a moment and answer a question about the picture in question.
Not many pictures today my friend - but you can see through my words I hope what is happening with us. I need to go check on my guests. Yesterday one of our staff members started her day at 4 am and finished at 9 pm. And when I saw her this morning at 6am, carrying fresh coffee pots she still had a smile on her face! Thank God for capable staff members who are real team players here with us! Angela does a good job managing this business with her staff!
