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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/11/2010 5:33:25 AM
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ChrisandCindy
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Great shot of the pelican in the palm
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/11/2010 1:02:27 PM
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Great shots Sharon & thanks so much for the invite to the yummy BBQ...great food, drinks, atmosphere and #1 FRIENDS!!! So nice to meet you & Steve and thanks again!!
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/11/2010 2:42:31 PM
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ISLAND GUY
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WAS SO GREAT TO SEE YOU TWO....MISS YA ALREADY ...COME ON BACK
(enjoyed the book too )
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/11/2010 3:28:04 PM
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Thanks for posting, enjoyed your pics. Was the show at Xcaret?
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/11/2010 8:30:25 PM
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Thanks for posting, enjoyed your pics. Was the show at Xcaret?
Yep, it was. We had been told about it for years and hadn't gone..we had gone to Xcaret, but not the show. it was FANTASTIC!!!!! Seriously wonderful. You can go at 4 pm (49.00 usd ea) and wander the grounds. Make reservations for dinner during the show for an additional 39/usd ea and you get primo seating. We didn't do that, we ate at the restaurant out on the water...had we known the great seating you get during the show we would've had dinner there. If you don;t do the dinner, make sure you are there early enough for good seating.
Kev, miss you too, bro. Are you done with the book already???
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/14/2010 4:03:53 PM
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Looks like a great but busy trip, Sharon. I love the pelican in the tree, too!
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/18/2010 7:37:33 PM
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Beautiful Pics.
Wish you the best with the villa (really).
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 5/23/2010 1:38:01 PM
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Sharoon
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Very very nice pictures and how much fun, what a pity we had no chance to meet, maybe next time
I tried to sneak some time to write on Saturday....unfortunately my sister was in a terrible way and needed comfort and support so didn't get all of my project done either. geez.
Mostly, my pictures tell the tale. We had a wonderful time meeting so many folks from here and seeing our old friends as well.
Meeting Jan was a highlight and spending time with her and Glen. Pizza Leo's with them was the best! Meeting Doug was great, a definite highlight to the trip....he is a wonderful handsome man. And meeting Soliel Sol was sweet, and Holly...FINALLY we met in person and she is so much prettier in person...not that she isn't in her pictures, but in person she is beautiful. And Tatt and Gem and Shana are what ya see is what ya get kind of people and meeting them and Maple Syrup and Sweetie and Boyd was very special....we had a Catered BBQ at the Seven Seas and all of the above mentioned came, including Island Guy and also two of Holly's cousins. What a fun day that was!
Most of the time there was spent relaxing and winding our spirits down after one heck of a year......it was nice to be able to leave all of that sadness and anxiety and trouble behind ...to set it aside, anyway, for a time and regroup and pull ourselves back together again....
We joined a gym in Tulum since Peak Gym was no longer in Akumal. They also moved to Tulum but the new gym there had better equipement, etc, and just suited us better. So, three times a week we headed down to Tulum to get a workout in. We did not get a chance to go flyfishing this trip. The wind seemed to be constant every time we would get a chance.
We had a couple friends from Whidbey come down and join us for three days and it was fun showing them around. Something we had never done before was the night show at Xcaret. We went with Jeff and Georgia and it was FABULOUS!!!! I would highly recommend it to anyone. Well worth the time and money.
Our son, Keenan, came down and joined us for ten days. It is always fun with him. He is a pretty darn nice young man, if I do say so myself!  WE went to Ek Baalam again with him....I had forgotten that it was closer to Chichen Itza than Coba..LONG drive there, shortcut coming back. Spent a day at Xel-ha with him. That is tradition. He paid a bribe to a criminal cop coming home from Playa late one night.....and then the SAME Criminal Cop stopped him the night before he left and told him to contact him the next time he came down and he would buy him a beer..yeah, with Keenan's money! 
Found a fabulous new restaurant in Puerto Aventuras called SiSiSi. FABULOUS food and we went for a late lunch, early dinner there on my birthday. Sat and watched the dolphins and ate and at the end they brought me a piece of cake with a candle to blow out and sang me happy birthday! Geraldine, who works there is very sweet and if you go tell her hi from me.
We also found a sculpture for Casa Alma and a picture too.We went out in the jungle to visit Isabel's new digs. Isabel Schober does beautiful oil paintings and she had a picture of a jaguar that she did tht is exquisite...we will hang it in the dining room at Alma.
We drove up to Cancun to see some granito and found the perfect granito for Casa Alma. That was very cool and worth the drive.
We joined Sam's Club in Playa so that we wouldn't have to drive all the way to Costco in Cancun for supplies...well, we will still go to Costco because they have a better selection, but it will be convenient to have Sam's tooo.
We usually go up to Playa to people watch and stuff but really didn't get up that way much this trip...it was pleasant.
We spent a lot of time at happy hour at the Lol-ha. We were at The Seven Seas for 14 days and then had to vacate to the Bungalows for 8 nights as the new owners of #3 came in. Nance cooked dinner for us one night, Salmon..yum! Keenan spent two nights at the Bungalows with us. The first night was the 24th and an LG party he attended with us. The next day was our Xel-ha day which worked out perfect and then back to the Seven Seas.
All in all it was a very pleasant trip. I was only sorry we couldn't get more done on Casa Alma....we will be going back down as soon as we need to before completion to make final design choices etc......can't wait to be back!
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RE: Groundbreaking Casa Alma de la Vida and MORE! - 12/4/2012 8:58:45 AM
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Wow....just found this...had forgotten about it.....soooooooooooooooooooo much has happened in between then and now....Casa Alma is completed, through blood sweat and many tears.....our builder was and is something other than what we thought him to be and caused us much grief and denero.....all during the process of building I had two brothers and a brother in law fighting serious cancers. My youngest brother survived, but my brother in law and oldest brother passed within 4 months of each other. And then 4 months later my dad passed, and then 4 months later my mom passed as well. All the while we had to be here getting things finished...got to say good bye in person to my brother...but not to my dad or mom, thanks to the hell our contractor put us through.....we had to get another architect...from Merida who was WONDERFUL, and eventually, we subconrtacted out ourselves and finished Alma up May of 2011...when we left and headed to the airport we were still making last minute fixes....when we came back October 2nd last year....we didn't want to get our hopes up too high as to what it was.....we walked in the door and couldn't believe what we had accomplished! Not to sing our own praises...but at a certain point...in February of 2011 when we got back here our first contractor had already hit us up for more money twice...and I had sent money to him specifically to hold for us so we could use it to open a bank account and he just rolled it int o Alma, or actually his own pocket. Then two days before we were to come back in Feb he emails and everything is ready at Alma and he just needs a few thousand more to finish it up...I told him, I am sorry, ***, my dad just died two days ago and I will bring a check...I thought he was down here and that was going to be the last money.....so, we arrived then thinking that (Feb 2011) we could just move in with only a couple things left to do.....we opened the door and NOTHING had been done....everything was covered in concrete dust...it was terrible....after yelling on the phone to *** and firing him we rolled up our spaghetti straps and sleeves and dug in and lived here...we had no place else to go! To this day I cannot even remember what we slept on until we could buy a mattress!!! ....our old contractor tried to intimidate us by having a guy jump out of the jungle when we would get back from somewhere and serve us "papers" saying we were in breech of contract....we finally found a way to get him off our backs and I will leave it at that right now....Alma turned out amazing and beautiful and I am proud of what we created....WE did it...we designed it....we lived through so much and learned so much and I am grateful to God, as hard as that valley was to traverse, that he took me through it....he took Steve and I through it together and we are stronger individually and as a couple because of it......still...taking in big gulps of something called..."normal".....a time to regroup and refigure things out....and enjoying the fruits of our labor. :-) Casa Alma de la Vida means "House of the Soul of Life".....it is a little jewel box......I will post some recent pictures later on. :-)
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...hehe.....so...here goes....we arrived late April 4th (Easter Sunday) made it through customs and got our luggage and Easyway was there to greet us. Breezed through getting that and we were on our way south...warm weather greeted us....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............it was Sunday so the beer from Easyway was really appreciated, and then when we got to our old condo at The Seven Seas, we had stored some champagne and tequila with our old neighbors and friends and they had stocked our fridge with it. YES!!! Sat outside and enjoyed some champagne and the breeze and being there. 
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