Enough of all that.

I think Blogger is letting me upload pictures again, we'll see. This is our friend Jaime kite-boarding during a norte here on Half Moon Bay.

He's really good, he catches some incredible air, up to 4 or 5 feet above the water at times.

We got a lot done last week in Merida, once the doctor stuff was over we spent a lot of time at the house. One whole day with the architect's assistant, the electrician and plumber going over every plug, every pump, every drain, all of it on the first floor.


Next Saturday we meet again and go over the 2nd floor. No way can I get up there now, they've promised me a good ladder by next week. Right now there is just some rather loose looking scaffolding.

This is my friend Theresa standing in front of the pantry and downstairs bath on the left and the open room on the right.

Have I explained how hard I've had to fight for my pantry? I have been clear from the beginning that I want a pantry, a bodega, a place to store big packages of paper towels from CostCo, a place for all the things I can't store now in an RV. It sounds silly even to me but hey, it's my house and I want a big kitchen storage room, with shelves and a small chest freezer. Over and over it seemed to disappear from the plans as they evolved. Again and again I had it put back in. Once it shrank to about 3' wide by 5' deep, you can't put shelves on both sides of a 3' room. I even had them remove the shower from the downstairs bathroom so the pantry would have enough space. You'd think that would show my true devotion to this room.

When we got to the house, the first thing I checked was the pantry. There are 2 rooms off the kitchen, one a half bath and the other The Pantry! Except, I could see from the sewer pipe that the bath had switched places with the pantry. But, the pantry was the larger of the two so I thought it was going to be fine. I remarked on the size though, and at first they said no, they are the same size.

It was when they were explaining about the pool pump and filter that I found out they were going to put them, guess where? In my pantry! It's like they just can't stand this empty space and have to move it or fill it or shrink it. The pool equipment is 1 meter high and 3 meters long - please, that takes up pretty much the whole damn pantry. Once again, I explained that no, I wanted an empty room with only some shelves and Nothing Else In It!!

So, we talked about several other places for the pool stuff, including adding a small shed if necessary. When I returned the next day, the pool pump and filter had found a home under the stairs where I thought they were going to be in the first place. That's what gets me, the pool stuff had a home so why did they just move it into my pantry? However, Mimi then noticed that the pantry and bathroom were again switching places. I asked and they said that I had been right and the left room was bigger than the right so they were moving the bath to the bigger room. No! All the bath needs is room for a toilet and a sink, my pantry needs shelves and air and room. So, we insisted and they have now moved the plumbing back. I'm not convinced though that at the last minute something else will appear in my pantry. I think I should just ask for some hammock hooks in it and call it the maid's room.