Easter Weekend

It's Easter Weekend and the whole country is shut down for four days. We are open today (Good Friday), tomorrow and Sunday, but closed on Monday. That''s when all of us are packing up the cars and heading up to Waipu for a picnic and outing at Lang's Beach (same place we went with Dad and Joy). The girls want to do an Easter Egg hunt. It's so rare that everyone is off at the same time - will be fun!

Jen, Ashley and I went to see the musical Dirty Dancing last night and loved it. Jen's stay is winding down, and we have almost all of the videos finished. They look great. Ashley is still waiting for her "Partner Visa" so she can start working. She's got some nice offers and wants to take job at a very hip and swanky spa/salon as a trainee. Can you just see JB going in there to get his hair cut?

We have decided to be a sponsor for one of our newer employees, Jhon, from Peru. He's amazing in the kitchen and a real go-getter. Even Bel (the little Braziallian Nazi) and JB (the jaded American) love him, so he's got that going for him (which is nice). Tyler is working with immigration to get all Jhon's papers in order so he can stay here. We now have Tiffany from mainland China and Wilson from Taiwan on board, so our world map of employees is ever-expanding. The Chinese are a hoot, since nobody can pronounce their given names, they choose a new name when they come here. Often they choose rock-star names, but Wilson loved the movie "Castaway." Go figure.

We had another celebrity sighting the other day. Just Nicki and Conor were on during the lull (4pm) and a couple came up to order veggie burritos. Conor thought the guy looked familiar, like the guy in Van Wilder. Nicki was sure the girl was famous too. Conor had his UofO shirt on and the guy was talking to him about having family in Eugene. After they sat down, Conor and Nicki went into the office and Googled Ryan Reynolds, sure enough he's married to Alanis Morisette. That's who they were - just travelling through. So now we have quite a collection, including John Legend, Black-Eyed Peas, POD, John Cleese, Bill Clinton, Alanis Morisette and Ryan Reynolds. Let's see, the Stones are in concert in a few weeks. Wonder if Mick and the boys will drop by?

Jen creating our video training