Kentucky and Amazon.com

Mo and I left Daphne and headed up I-65 for Kentucky. We planned on taking 2 days to get there. The first day we would stop in Huntsville, AL and visit with Sarah, Josh and Samantha. We had not seen them since we left last year and just the stories about Samantha make you miss being close to the family. So we met the at a Walmart close by and we then went to Logan's Steak House for a fun meal. Samantha and I ate as many p-nuts as we could and Josh and I drank as many beers as we could. It was a win win for me! We talked and caught up for a couple of hours at least. Samantha had the camera walking around taking pictures of everything and nothing, just having a good time being a kid, Thank You Lord for my precious grandchildren! Josh took us back to the Walmart and we climbed into bed for a nights rest. Tomorrow we would head up the road to an area we'd never seen before.
The drive was amazing, it had been many years since either of us had seen the colors of the leaves change in the fall and we were driving at the perfect time to see it. We tried to capture the colors through the windshield but it didn't work, here is some of the effort...

As you can see, what we saw didn't show up but take my word for it, it was incredible.

We arrived in Campbellsville, KY and got to our campground and registered and got a site. We had visited last year and gotten a tour of the plant and seen the campground but the owner of the campground had expanded the site area by about 3 times more then when we had seen it. It was basically a big tierd gravel parking lot with electric, water and sewer connections.

This is looking from the lower side and if you look close, right in the center, you can see a Jolly Roger flying. That's our spot!

This is from a bit further away, directly behind me is Amazon.com building. 

 As you can see, there were no trees at all. this whole Heartland Campground was built to accomdate the seasonal force that Amazon hires each Christmas. Amazon paid for our site and utilities plus paid us a good wage.

I turned around and snapped this picture of the building, the total distance from our door to Amazons door was only 7 minutes. We walked every day, rain or shine.

We were there to work and that we did! The first week we only worked 5 hours, or a half days, the second week we worked 4 - 10 hour days. Then the same the third week. then the forth and fith week we worked 5 - 10 hour days. From then on we worked 6 - 10 hour days with anything over 40 being overtime. We were so beat when we got home Mo couldn't fix any dinner! We made some great friends there, David & Judy; Eddie & Joyce; Roger & Cheryl and many others. They were all in the same boat as us, beat up bad after work. We found out about the local college, Campbellsville University,. They allowed us to eat in the cafeteria and it was not only great food but very affordable. So that's where we got our nutrition from. The work was fast and demanding, not necessarily hard but we used different muscles then normal. We used hand, wrist and arm muscles to pack and fold boxes etc. We could hardly sleep at night for the soreness, Vitamin I was taken in excess but was needed badly!
We decorated our house for Christmas....

It really looked good at night, there were lights all over and a tiny tree in the front windshield.

Anyway, we survived and finished on December 23rd, stayed until the 24th and rested. We had been getting up at 4am so we slept in until 7am, packed up and drove to Knoxville, TN where we stayed overnight and went to the children's' Mass at 5pm. The place was packed of course but it was a great Mass, the children did a beautiful job of singing and put on a short skit at the end. We hadn't been to Mass in 2 months, since our work schedule included Saturday and Sunday, rare for us, so we were happy to be there.
We left Christmas morning and drove to Red Top Mountain SP where we will stay until Dec 29th. All of the children and grandchildren will be at Michael and Carin's house in Canton, GA on the 27th. It should be a blast!
More about Christmas in the works..........