The big push

 The last few days before we left was a mad dash to get things finished.  One of which was to get the patio roof on.




The first beam going on. 

The guys never use any kind of safety.  Here they are using a chainsaw to take off the extra length on the beams.


They are horsing around.

Hanging on the edge to place tiles.








The guys are all busy.  Last minute plastering on the outside.  Paint going on the front and, of coarse, the patio roof going on. 
 The kitchen has been cleaned up.

This fan is the same we will putting in the patio in the fall.

I was busy planting the day before we left.  Now I hope they all make it.  We have someone coming in to water and check on the house.

This succulent decided to bloom.  So did this tree, which wasn't suppose to.

A palm for the patio.

Ferns that got really bushy.  Hope they do well while we are gone.

More plants for the patio and the wonderful view.  The patio was so much cooler with the tile roof.

This is how we left the house.  Still things to be done, but we could lock it all up.

We left on a Sat.  and traffic was backed up going into         Puerto Vallarta.  It was a big holiday, Semana Santa the week before Easter.  We didn't have a lot of traffic going North, just ran into construction and slow trucks.

Careyes and El Tecuan

 

 Tom was told there was an art museum in Careyes.  So we did an outing with our friends.  There was a museum, but nothing in it.  We still found some interesting items.

This horse was made out of paper mache. 

 

This statue had holes drilled into the sides and back.  Looking to the inside of it there were lights and my friend figured out that the holes made up the constellations.  It must look beautiful at night.

From Careyes we drove to El Tecuan.    There is an abandoned hotel.  A lot of history behind the land and hotel.  If interested there is a site giving more information:
 http://www.costalegre.ca/El_Tecuan.htm




The beach is pretty rough and it is not recommended for swimming. 


You can look to the beach one way and to the estuary the other.

 

The walkway to one half of the hotel has collapsed.  But look at those huge logs that were holding up the walkway roof.

You have to imagine what the fountain would have looked like.

Most of the hotel has been ransacked and not many tiles left.  But here was one shower with a few tiles.

Graffiti on a couple of walls.    

Glass and bathroom counter

The glass for the doors and windows are made of a double pane glass with a center that is plastic laminate.  This will hopefully make it harder to break the glass.

The glass man marks the glass where it needs to be cut, then he takes a syringe, filled with I don't know and puts it on the mark.  He then takes a glass cutter to score.  But after that he uses a box cutter to cut the glass. 

Once again the pouring of the counters is being done on the floor of the guest bedroom.  This time instead of blue we are doing green.

The setting of the upstairs sink.












The setting of the downstairs 

Our now green bedroom floor.  Eventually we will tile and then it will be covered up.

 The counter tops before sanding.  They look different colors, but actually are not.  The lighting and walls are creating the difference in color.














The finished products.