(2) Casa No Problemo!

It is the second week of October and the afternoons are still too warm to do anything except siesta, go to Zihuatanejo to shop in an air conditioned store or find a nice cool shady spot and write a blog site.  What better way to lolaway an afternoon than to write about the trials and tribulations of building in Mexico?  Well maybe hanging by the pool with an ice cold one...but falling asleep before 7 pm every night and an enormous beer gut after 6 months of this is probably not the best idea. So a blog site it is.

It has been a long process to finally get to this point....this point being that the actual construction is about to begin.   Approximately 3 years of working with an architect, talking with numerous builders, expats, dealing with a environmental plan, and of course corruption (it comes in so many forms) and finally we are breaking ground!  Day One started with a meeting between us, our builder and the building inspector, who also happens to be both our accountant and the builders accountant! A man with many hats!  Wish we could have taped the conversation...pretty funny...alot of the words went over our heads but in the end we are pretty sure we understood (something!).  Oh this will be fun! And now they say the key words are ...No Problemo!!! Jose Luis (the main contractor) is not drinking these days so unfortunately we can't really toast to that motto!!  Okay we'll do it with some sparkling water.

The following day we spray painted all the building locations onto the ground (including future ones if we ever have the money to add them)...to visualise where things will lay on the land. The red ants payed little attention to these markings and continued on with their business as usual.  Those little buggers are everywhere! and damn do they hurt when they bite! And we can't forget the anaphlatic shock/allegic reaction they imposed on poor Debi last year.
We stopped by later and all the materials arrived to build the workers hangout.  This bodega is where they will store all the concrete, wood and the workers can go to get out of the sun, where the (young) security guard will sleep..with a fierce dog to scare off potential robbers. They often have a tv setup for the lonely dude!  Photos to come later on that lovely shack....in the mean time....

                                                .... here's a photo of one of our views.  Not too bad and note, there is not a snow flake anywhere in view!