Breakfast is Served

I'm sure you've all been on pins and needles waiting to see if we got our room ready in time for our guests! (Probably haven't had a good night's sleep in nearly a week. ) Well, the answer is . . . yes . . . sort of! We managed to get the room 95% the way we wanted it. The remaining "tweaks" will come over the next week or so.

Our final evening was spent putting the room together and cleaning.

This was the scene at about 10:30 p.m. when Mark & Deb called to tell us that they were running late. Whew!

Wrangling a dust ruffle and a queen-sized mattress is no easy feat! I guess I should lay down the camera and help the man!

Tackling the more "unglamorous" part of running a Bed and Breakfast.

Remember the missing hardware for the table and chairs? Well since our supplier did not overnight anymore to us, Wayne set about packing the stuff away for the weekend - only to find the hardware nicely taped on the underside of one of the pieces of packing.

Ok - the table is together . . . now we have another problem. It won't fit through the door!

No kidding! Wayne had to disassemble two of the legs to get it through.

It's now 11:30 p.m. Yawn!

At last! At 12:15 a.m., the room was pronounced ready. It was very hard not to crawl in the bed and try it out! Especially since we figured our guests were still about 2 hours away. (We refrained!)

(I know the picture is blurry, but so were my eyes at that hour! For some reason, my camera will not take a good picture of this room. I need some photographer friend to come and visit!!)

Our guests finally arrived at 3:00 a.m. I was in bed. Wayne slept on the couch so he could let them in. Apparently they loved the room. Of course at 3:00 a.m. we probably could have showed them an army cot and they'd have been happy!

The rest of the weekend was a breeze compared to getting ready. The first morning, nobody wanted to get up early, so our breakfast was actually a late brunch served about noon.

The second morning, we had to do the "get up early" thing. Not so fun. We were shooting for a 9:00 a.m. breakfast (ok - I know it's not THAT early, but for me . . .). Everything was going well until we tried to "slide" the baked eggs out of their custard dishes and onto their muffins. The little buggers just did not want to slide. So . . . we were 15 minutes late with breakfast.

The third morning .. . perfection!!! We felt more rested and had a blast chopping and stirring away at our "Rachel Ray" island. Everything was on the table exactly at 9:00 a.m. The menu was strawberry/banana parfaits, coffee and cream coffee cake (yum!) and two quiches - one tomato and basil and the other spinach and bacon.

Each morning, we tried out a new recipe on our "guinea pigs" and they said everything was delicious.

Here are some other scenes from the weekend:

Wayne and Mark took a hike on Sunday afternoon. They took this shot from the top of Snow Mountain -the mountain behind our house. You can access the Snow Mountain Trail right from our property. It is a moderate trail that follows a mountain stream, passes through a narrow flume and offers spectacular summit views - complete with wild blueberries in July!

Mark and Deb breaking in two of our new (to us) Adirondack chairs.

Sodie and CorrieAnne had a blast playing with Mark & Deb's granddaughter, Abby. She was exactly between our girls in age so they got along like they'd known each other forever. As you can see, they all like WebKinz.

So - we survived our first test as B&B owners. We still have a lot to learn and a lot of work ahead, but we know that we're definitely in the right place.