The Daily Update

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

The Pool is done!

Well it's never really finished but the major construction phase is done. It turned out even better than we imagined. Time to enjoy it.

Monday, August 2, 2010

Beck's new office toy

She needed something to spice up that new office.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Concrete!

They poured on Thursday and hopefully be back to put in score lines today. Fence installed on Monday and we are finished!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Friday, July 23, 2010

The pool is 92 degrees

Quite the hot spell down here. Need to get the water feature in to cool the pool off at night.

Monday, July 19, 2010

What are these birds?

And why do they think my house is now their home?

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Who needs concrete....spent last two days brushing and vacuuming the pool, start up chemicals are installed. Hope to get concrete in by end of week and get the salt system started once the pool is balanced.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Miss Poofy Hair

Emily got her braids taken out tonight.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Our new retaining wall

The guy did an amazing job.

Our new steps

Are we home in NC?

Look what Harris Teeter carries now.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Can't get these in the states.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Hup Holland

World Cup fever here in Aruba as the Dutch are playing Spain today in the final. If Holland wins it will be a crazy night of partying here in Aruba.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Bumper Boats!

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Sunset at Dinner

We had our anniversary dinner at a great Italian restaurant at the tip of the island and got this great sunset.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Dancing at Salsa night

We went to the other resort that Beck's parents are staying and enjoyed a home cooked spaghetti dinner and some salsa dancing.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Ahhh Parrots

Island Girl

Emily got her hair braided this morning!

Feeding the fish

This is just outside the resort. We feed the fish our leftovers.

Monday, July 5, 2010

I love this sign!

This is on the side of a building in downtown Oranjestad.

Hello from Aruba

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Out to lunch!

We have wifi in the lobby so I can update the blog regularly. Emily and I going out to lunch.

Aruba!

Just got back from a great breakfast. Off to swim in the pools.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

The foreman overseeing the build

Conduit buried, piping ready for pad, ground is leveled for concrete. Need electrician to finish his stuff up for inspection and we lay concrete. The retaining wall stone was delivered too. We are in the home stretch!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Pools half full

of actual pool water. Inspections coming up soon and then laying the concrete!

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Almost done!

Mitchell worked his butt off the last two days and got the pool shaped, drains installed and Vermiculite finished. Now we can install the liner and start filling the pool!

We have the pump pad, electrical, retaining wall and concrete to finish. Almost there....

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Piping done

Piping is completed on the pool and backfilling has started. Tomorrow
they will pour pump pad and finish backfilling and hopefully getting
the rest of the dirt hauled away.

Designing a big pergola for the back of the house for some shade. I'll
try and post a pic of the design tomorrow.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

More progress today

It was the point of no return the last few days on the pool. They
showed up today (a Saturday) and installed the coping and got the
electrical bonding completed for the next step.

We finalized locations for the ladder, pump and eelectrical wires. We
are planning on building two 10' square pergolas down at the far end
of the pool. We will be installing ceiling fans in them and one will
be set up for a tv. I may just move into my backyard shortly!