Deployment!

This week I was deployed to Yacht & Beach Club. So instead of working in Bay Lake I have been working there all week. Tomorrow is my last day there and it will actually be sad because they have a lot of cool guards over there and it is just fun.

One of the really entertaining things they do there is the changing of the guards. The AM guards work 8:00 till 16:30 and the PM guards work 15:30 till 23:30. At 16:00 all of the AM guards go off stand and the PM guards go on stand. Then at 16:15 the AM guards all line up and perform the "Cupid Shuffle" and sometimes "Cotton Eye Joe" depending on how the guards feel and if we want to do another one. Yacht & Beach is also a HUGE pool compared to mine.

The Contemporary stands are:
~Bottom
~Lap
~Rove

The Lodge stands are:
~Slide
~Point
~Cove

The Bay Lake Tower stands are:
~BLT Slide
~Gatekeeper

The Yacht & Beach stands are:
~Top Ship
~Ship
~Bubbles
~Quiet
~Deep
~Shallow
~Windmill
~Bottom
~Rising
~Active

Needless to say when I saw my first rotation there I looked a little shocked and everyone noticed but it is actually a lot of fun there. I really like working there and will not mind being sent back even though I love Bay Lake and the people there. The Y & B people are just as cool and so much fun to be around.

Off the topic of work friends are awesome. My friends and I had dinner together the other night and I cooked since I was the first one off work. I can't wait for my birthday to come around because it should be a blast. New CP's have arrived with one more batch arriving on Monday so there are a ton of baby CP's running around now and its very funny to think that was us months ago.

Back on the topic of work...I got to save a baby ducky today at work!!!!

I Realize It Has Been Forever

...and I am sorry. Everything has been very busy these past weeks. As my summer class drew to a close I spent most of my time not at work either doing homework, taking tests and doing projects or sleeping. Work has been great. The Bay Lake Towers officially opened their doors to guests on August 4th. On August 8th I guarded there for the first time. I have been guarding there all week and I love it! Working at that pool is a blast. The guests there are amazing and it is a beautiful pool. I also went home for a few day right before the opening of the BLT and went camping with my family which was lots of fun.

Now that summer classes have ended I will finally be able to have fun...or not. We are now on 6 days a week and for those staying at Bay Lake next week they will be on 11 to 13 hour lines 4 to 5 days a week. For me I'm on 6 days a week with 8 hour lines still because I am deployed to the Yacht and Beach Club from August 17th till August 22nd so I'll get to find out about yet another pool. Hopefully I will be able to find time to hang out with friends. New CP's have begun to arrive and in about a week there will be a few other Hokie's joining me.

I'll try and update with at least a sentence or two whenever I have days off.