Dealers, how was your Memorial weekend?

[Gomboman]

I had no idea that the Memorial weekend was such a big event for Spa Dealers. Most of the bigger brands in my area had huge sales going on this past weekend.

I know East_TX_Spa did pretty well this weekend. How did the rest of you do? Is the economy picking up at all? Are people spending money?

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

I had an awesome Memorial Day. Went jet skiing out in the San Francisco bay. About 1/8 out past the Golden Gate Bridge we came upon a 3' long leopard shark swimming alon the surface.

Circled him a few times just to show him what it was like    

Hey, does anyone know if there's such a thing as a waterproof digital camera?........ reasonably priced?

[DPS]

Not a bad week.  We sold 10 spas.  Not many that came in because of our Memorial Day advertising though.  I think only one came in and bought due to newspaper ad.  Maybe two from seeing our sale banner outside.  The rest were just like our average, everyday shoppers - some from yellow pages, some from manufacturer's internet sight, etc.

[Wisoki]

Sounds like an awesome weekend, I spent my Sunday sitting on steel bleachers watching 33 cars chase eachother around a 2.5 mile oval! Awesome race, great finish. We are closed on Sunday's period. Monday, was cook out day. If somebody absolutly positivly had to buy a hot tub this weekend, then I guess we missed out on the sale. It aint breakin' my heart, I'd rather spend the holiday weekend with people I care about.

I had an awesome Memorial Day. Went jet skiing out in the San Francisco bay. About 1/8 out past the Golden Gate Bridge we came upon a 3' long leopard shark swimming alon the surface.

Circled him a few times just to show him what it was like    

Hey, does anyone know if there's such a thing as a waterproof digital camera?........ reasonably priced?

[salesdvl]

I'm not a dealer anymore but I'll chime in.  Sat we swam in our pool all afternoon and went to a local minor league baseball game.  Sat we went to a friends house and had a cook out.  Mon we swam at home again and cooked out.  

[drewstar]

Out on the lake Friday night.

yard work saturday and friends over Sat night (passed on the chance to see Springsteen)

Sunday, more yard work.  Steaks on the grill with my folks. Sitting outside at night by the fire pit.

Monday, even more yard work. I think I need to contact the Pope.   A miracle may be occuring.  The pile of mulch, although I have shoveled 20 wheelbarrow  of it, has not reduced in size. It could be a miracle along the same lines of the "loaves and fishes", or it could be a demonic curse, as  it's day threee and I still have a sh!tload left.  

After abandoing work on the miracle mulch, had my best friends over for steamers, lobsters and beer. Sat on the deck, soak in the pool, turned up the speakers and had a ball.   ended the day with a soak with the wife in the hot tub to sooth our aching bodies from too much partying and too much yard work. The weather in New england was fantastic!

[hymbaw]

O.K. day saturday at the store(economy here still stinks)

Spent the rest of the weekend in the

at the CoPa, sweating, drinking,and watching my Tigers get beat(still in first place though )

[tanstaafl2]

I had an awesome Memorial Day. Went jet skiing out in the San Francisco bay. About 1/8 out past the Golden Gate Bridge we came upon a 3' long leopard shark swimming alon the surface.

Circled him a few times just to show him what it was like    

Hey, does anyone know if there's such a thing as a waterproof digital camera?........ reasonably priced?

Yes there are. Many cameras have a waterproof case accessory that can be purchased for them. They can be used by divers. The cases sometimes cost as much as the camera.

http://www.backscatter.com/hostedstore/products/WaterproofCamera.html

In addition several digital cameras are now for sale that can go into shallow water (5 feet deep or less) and take pictures.

A couple of examples:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0305/03052801sonydscu30u60.asp

http://www.h20camera.com/consumer/overview.jsp

There are probably others.

[Dr. Spa™ Ret.]

Cheap son of a gun I am, I wound up ordering a Che-ez Foxz2 2.0MP Mini Tiny Slim Digital Camera w/all-weather waterproof case.

Yup, a big 2 MP, with virtually no zoom. It should be just fine for for what I want to use it for, though I'm a little concerned about it, or any camera's shock proofness. With shipping, it was under $55

[East_TX_Spa]

We had a mighty good time.  We weren't open Sunday or Monday like some folks but I'm like Wisoki with the attitude of not caring if I missed a spa sale or not.  

We went out to the boss's family compound at the lake.  Here's the 15,000 sf main house with a tiny little HotSpring Jetsetter on the upper deck:



Here's Underling Amy and her husband and daughter beside the boss's HotSpring Envoy:


Here's the guest house for visiting dignitaries such as the Rev. Billy Graham and myself:


We all mounted Big Mable:


The life jacket had been in the water too long and had shrunk:


The World's Greatest Spa Salesman put in an appearance:


Some incredible displays of skill were performed:



Savanna and Ashley enjoyed the show:


Kim and Doug enjoy a dip of snuff as the sun sets softly behind them:




I broke the ski.  It sucks being fat and having big feet:


My future boss giving the ribs a try.  We ate three bowls of them.  They were fantabulous:


The World's Greatest Hot Tub Salesman's wife Sherril served up some of her pie.  It was delicitous:


My mean ol' pregnant wife going back for her third or fourth helping (I lost count):


Went out the next day to the boss's farm and tracked down some escaped convicts from the county jail:




We caught them trying to steal fish food, so we dispatched them.  It is Texas, after all:


Got the Alley Fest starting Friday.  Should have some good pics of naughty behavior.

Terminator

[hymbaw]

Firearm safety:

Both hands on weapon
No one down range
Beer in pocket

[Drewski]

Hmmmm...

Me thinks the spa business ain't that BAD, huh?

[MarKee]

We sold 25+ spas between our 3 stores over the weekend.

[Gomboman]

Very nice pictures Term. Did you say that Kim had a dip of snuff?

How did you do Sandiego?

[sandiego]

we were slow saturday and sunday but had a good monday.