Casa Woodbridge November 2012

Been awhile since I have posted been having technical issues...hahaa....

Life here is good! The weather has taken a turn just about the time Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast.  It did cause some waves here but that's about it. The weather at the moment is spectacular.  Low humidity and lovely breezes...house is coming along great!

pool in front love the shape!

Sea wall in front

The pool/deck area is going in and we love it! We have been to Cancun a couple of times to look at furniture and appliances.  Appliance we have found no problem but furniture is another matter.  Need to find a couch we like and a dining table.  I think we have decided to have the dining table made.  There is a fabulous carpenter here on the island that did some of the furniture at Isla 33.  We hope to get him to do our dining table.  We have decided to do a high buffet style dining table with stools underneath so I can use it as a prep station for cooking as well as countertop space is at a minimum in the kitchen.

The bedrooms are tiled and the bathroom upstairs, they are tiling the roof deck as we speak.  Also the carpenter has finished the closets in the master and is now on the 2nd bedroom.  He will then start on the kitchen cabinets.  We have picked out the most lovely granite for kitchen countertops.  Its darkish, greeny, with some black and gold.  It will give us the contrast we need against the beautiful off white marble floors.  The front doors are being made.  Pablo showed us the pavers we will have out front, lovely!  We still need to decide shower surrounds in both bathrooms and we want different tile on the floor in the bathroom downstairs.

We also need to pick out fixtures for sinks and toilets and fans, etc.  All fun stuff! It really is going to be so beautiful.  We now have arches on either side of the master balcony we we love! It creates such a cozy space and the view thru the arches is wow! I do think this we will my favorite place.

We are going to Cancun again today.  We will visit Telebodega to see about furniture again and there is a market we need to go to as well...here is a few more pics of the progress.

Pool/deck area in front

Master bathroom closets

Balcony off master

Kitchen couter top granite

It is kind of hard to describe life here on Isla...  I love waking up here! I am up early as I adore the mornings here.  I take my walk to the house get a coffee and sit on the sea wall and just think about how lucky we are to be able to do this.  It really is a dream.

 We have met some wonderful people, ex-pats and locals.  Graham has befriended many of the local fisherman and the guys at the ferry, we went to dinner at one of their houses last week.  It was a 17 year anniversary for Albert and Christina.  They cooked us shrimp and lobster and we had the most lovely time with them even though we don't speak alot of spanish somehow we managed to communicate and had a lot of laughs.  We have been invited back for New Years day for Rellano Negro, a black turkey soup that the grandma makes along with traditional Yucatan dishes.  We can't wait for that.  I didn't have my camera last time...damn!

So many things and all of them good...days at the beach, breakfast at the mercado, siesta's and more.  Also taking spanish lessons twice a week with Christy Dix, who I love.  Its a slow process but I am learning and am very motivated to speak spanish as it is so important to developing relationships with locals.

What can I say but that we are very very happy to be here and we aren't even in the house yet...

I promise to post more often now I have figured out issues....hasta...