Happy late Thanksgiving

We had a very nice thanksgiving here in Coffeyville, Kansas. We had signed up to work and did work until they shut everything down at lunch time. That was a nice bonus in itself plus we received holiday pay to boot!

Express Professionals, our employer, had a Thanksgiving dinner for all of us Workampers in a nearby Armory. Express furnished the meats, bread, and drinks and everyone else brought side dishes. It was a really nice dinner with lots of good food. There were probably 200 or so people there to eat. After we ate we went home to rest up for the upcoming 11 hour work days.

Amazon is going to trial the Shipping department on 11 hour work days (5:30 AM to 5: PM) for a couple of days and then let us know if it will continue after the 2 days. It all depends on the orders.

Friday we got up at 3:30 AM and did our 11 hour day and it wasn't too awful bad. I never thought I would say that standing for 11 hours would not be too bad but it wasn't. The Workampers have the option to only work 10 hours but we told them we would try the 11 hours and let them know how we felt after a few days.

I worked in Gift Wrap all day Friday. It is fun thinking about all the children and people getting the gifts I wrap and what they think of their gifts. Terry worked on the Toy line all day switching back and forth from scanning to making sure there were no glitches in the operation of the line. He has become the right hand man to the team leader who depends on him to help keep things running smoothly.

The weather is getting colder but we expected that to happen. We spent the day yesterday in Joplin, Missouri just shopping and exploring. It was 37 degrees and spitting SNOW !! It sure felt like Christmas! Last year at this time we were in Fort Myers, Florida and it did NOT feel like Christmas but that wasn't all bad! This isn't that bad either and it is short term so we will just roll with the flow and take what comes.