Now this is what make life totally worth living! Say hello to Disnalda. This is the young gal that Dawn and I have put in Private English/Spanish school. I tried to get a picture of her with her hair braid as a mustashe on her but she turned the tables on me once more and of course Dawn was there thinking this was hilarious to take the picture!

Disnalda is now doing GREAT in school. It took a long time including after school, tutoring and a lot of socialization but now it is all worth it! I spent 4000 pesos today for tutoring and agreed to get her tutoring all summer. By the time next year rolls along she should be ahead of her grade I hope!

Here she is the HAM getting her picture taken on my sofa. Beautiful, sweet and intelligent! What a fine woman she is going to turn out to be!

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Hasta Pronto!

This is the Upper Bar in QuiXotes. As soon as the freakin floor gets finished the upper bar when you look at it will have smoked glass and mirror behind it. This will be to display the liquors and wines and possibly beers if I can get a decent selection.

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I have the guy coming to do this and to install a mirror and vanity in the womans bathroom on Saturday.

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The owner of the hotel said to me yesterday "I hope you are opened by the 22nd of May because we are full starting then. I said I would certainly try to be open by then!

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Disnalda the little girl Dawn and I put in School is doing great! She has now been the student of the week 2x and her grades are exploding! Yippee... She just called me and is going to my condo now. Cant wait to see her.

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Back to work to see if these "FOLKS" are going to get the freak'n floor done today or not. ERRRRRR!

. Well here is the picture of the floor that AIN'T finished yet. I hope, I hope!! What you are looking at under the windows is where a 12 foot 2 piece sofa. In front of that will go tables. I will get about 4 more seats with this instead of two built in benches that were there and I took out. .

Step by step, slowly I turn, getting work done, getting work done...

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Disnalda is here now and Dawn just took a picture of us which I will post next.

Hasta Pronto!

Do you like Spicy food?

If you like real Thai food you would resemble this picture:) Man I love hot food and I always challange Dori to light me up when I eat at his restaurant! Anyone else out there love their food hot enough that you can taste it both entering and leaving? LOL . Alberto from Anoeca the finance house in Puerto Plata stopped by the restaurant I am renovating tonight and gave me a great suggestion regarding signage outside which I am going to use. I picked up this clay tile for decorating the lower exterior wall of the restaurant and he suggested doing a sign on the wall in broken tile which I love! Going to get that done! I was previously going to frame it in the clay tile but now I am not only going to frame it but going to do it in the broken tile. . Alberto is the kind of guy that really enriches your life. He over the years has been a wealth of information to me and has taught me so much about the country I live in. I hope our friendship continues forever! . Wednesday I have the upper bar being finished in Smoked glass on the outside and Mirrors on the inside. Great way to display liquors, wines and beers! I will have lights installed also so it will be an easy way to see what you want to order. . I got my block delivered today to build my short wall which will be the entrance to the service area to a private air conditioned dining room. Hopefully my storefront gets delivered and installed this week. I am going replace the tile with a new and more modern tile in this area that will be under air. Have to get the store front in before I can get that done. . Today they started grouting the Stone with the crushed granite and will be finished by thursday. Need to get that guy out of the place so I can get my other work done. It is all coming together and I am getting excited seeing it all come together. I am getting a great reaction from the folks that have been coming in to see what I am doing. One of the best compliments came from Camden Tom when he said he was jealous and another from Jackie Quontee who wanted to invest. Nice to know others seem to like what I am doing. . There is a 4th of July Bbq at Lou's NY Shark Bar and I will post the info when I find it again. Beats the hell out of the other choices. All you can eat and you don't have to cook the crap yourself! HEH... . Tomorrow is Taco Tuesday. I hope I am not too tired to go this week and I am looking forward to it! I miss those guys when I didn't go last week. . Hope your night is a good one! . Hasta Pronto!

PS> Don't forget to click to buy me breakfast! Man I am hungry tomorrow! LOL

First of all I have to give credit for this photo to my friend Amity. She sent me a link to her picture storage and I yoked this one to post on the blog when I had a chance. Not only a beautiful woman but a great Photographer. Beautiful flower! When I saw Amity over Easter she had a great haircut and looked even more lovely than before if you can believe it! She looks simply beautiful in short hair! .

Hey folks the second thing is that I was only able to have coffee this morning and you are all slacking off! Man I am hungry. Click Click!

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Saturday I worked a half day getting stuff done at the new location for QuiXotes which is located inside the Europa Hotel on Pedro Clisante on the North Coast of the Dominican Republic. . They finished banging out the concrete the stone floor was set in and tomorrow which is Monday they start regrouting it with Granito. That is crushed granite what has a nice look to it. . Hopefully this week I get the storefront installed that will separate the restaurant from the Pool area in the back. Next will be to get another set of double glass doors set to make a dining area that I can Air Condition. It will be pretty small and only seat from 20 t0 24 people but that is a lot if I can serve that area 2x for dinner which I am planning on doing eventually on those hot summer nights. . Also the Top cabinates have been stripped to put smoked glass on the outside looking in and mirrors on the doors facing out with lights. That should be finished this coming week also. . Ah more about the restaurant when I go back to work tomorrow. Saturday afternoon when I was finished working I called my buddy Jackie Quontree to see how he was doing and perhaps to have dinner with him. I was actually thinking about going up to Puerto Plata and eating and hanging there but he came to Sosua instead. We met at Eddys Sports Bar to watch the Heavyweight fight that was on the big screen and then had dinner at Asiatico which is also located in Eddys Sports Bar. . I had Yellow Seafood Curry which was out of this world. Jackie had some sort of pork dish with rice and he said he liked it a lot also. Afterwards we went over to the new restaurant to show him what had happened since he was there the week before. After hanging out there for a while we went out prowling the streets. First stop was Lou's NY Shark Bar. Had some good conversations and drinks with Lou and hit the road again. To make a long story short we spent the night on the town and chatting most of the night. At the end of the night I suggest to Jackie to stay over and he could return to Puerto Plata after breakfast which he agreed to and I took him to his car and he followed me home and then disappeared and has never been heard from again! Oh well, I am not my brothers keeper. . Today I went to the home of Avocado Brian with my friend Camden Tom. Tom wanted to see how and what Brian did to his Gentlemans farm since he also bought a farm in the area and is still unsure which direction to go in with it. We spent the day sampling wines and liquors and having enjoyable conversations. Brian has a winery and a distillary close by and makes both liquors and wines locally. I plan on selling these at QuiXotes when we open. . Came home and just hung out on the computer listening to music and relaxing the rest of the day and night and will be at the restaurant to open up for the workers at 8 am tomorrow. I look forward to it and getting making a lot of progress this coming week. Sorry that the blog hasn't been that regular nor have my photos which I know a lot of people enjoy. . Hasta Pronto!