Okay I’m exhausted.
We had our first real paying customers at the B&B. Well not the B&B per say, its still not ready, but I had booked in the board of the Nunavut Association of Municipalities Insurance Group a while back ("The end of August? Of course we’ll be ready by then. How many rooms do you need?") and needed to live up to my commitments.
Gary and Gerard are house sitting, so I had one staying here, and two staying at the house they are sitting. That was all the accommodation I was responsible for, however I had to feed all five, and provide the snacks for their coffee breaks.
I swear I never left the kitchen. I didn’t get ahead at all on the baking, so immediately after breakfast I started baking for coffee break. I’d finish delivering the snack to the Hamlet Office and start on lunch, then it was baking for afternoon coffee break and prep for supper. After feeding them for supper Leah, Travis, Gary, Gerard would get their turn. By the time cleanup was done it was almost time to start over again. All in a kitchen I can pretty much touch all four walls at the same time.
It was fun having Guy, Doug, Lynda, Mark and John here, and I hope they enjoyed their stay. I believe they did, now I have someone to spread the word. They arrived on Wednesday and left on Saturday’s plane. The time just flew by. On yesterday’s plane we received another guest. Gordon is with Kakivak Association, one of our funders and a business development fund of one of the Inuit Beneficiary organizations.
Time to get ready, tomorrow is sealift. It’s like having all of your birthdays on the same day.