Day 13-18

It’s been a week since my last entry because we left the country for the 4^th of July. It doesn’t sound very patriotic, but my company gave me two days off and I wanted to take advantage of that time with a beach vacation to Mexico. We chose Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun.

Here are some photos of the beautiful hotel we decided stayed in (the view from our room and two photos of the pool):

And here is a photo of why we heard banging and saws and whistles starting at 7:30 AM every morning (even Saturday) and did not relax one single bit on vacation (click on the photo to see it larger and notice the construction next door):


Apparently we can’t escape construction. However, it seems we would have had better luck escaping it at home—not that that’s why we went on vacation. I simply can’t believe our dumb luck. The good news is they stopped around 12:30 every day. The bad news is waking up to construction doesn’t get you off on the right foot. Even going to another beach to escape the noise didn’t help. And the really bad news is that the workers liked to whistle and stare at the women in the pool. They made no effort to try to disguise their stares.

On the home front a lot of progress was made, but the photos don’t do a good job of showing that. They started laying the forms for pouring the foundation yesterday. It rained yesterday afternoon and there’s a 50-60% chance of more rain today, so I imagine nothing will happen today.

Manor Foster was over checking things out this morning and he said they’d like to empty the dumpster today, but if the dump is too wet they shut down. He also said they definitely won’t pour concrete today due to the rain (originally this was the day it was supposed to start). I can’t complain because we desperately need the rain. I also can’t complain because this is my first work week morning of quiet since June 23rd.