don't forget towels & sheets

here's a picture in front of Vela which we took on Tuesday night. it was a great time of evening to be on the beach. they run a restaurant/bar at Vela called Voy Voy and Tuesdays is Taco Tuesday. tasty tacos for 150 pesos (less than $5) - can't beat that for a good cheap meal on the beach.

here's a few more shots at Vela:


we visited Rich, Sandy, and their newborn this week. all is well there. i had thought that Sandy might have had some horror stories to tell about the experience of delivering a baby in a DR hospital. well, aside from her doctor deciding a week before her delivery date that he would go off-island on business without telling her and then needing to line up a different doctor, all went off without a hitch. i think the only interesting thing she mentioned is that you have to bring your own towels, sheets, etc. to use at the hospital. they are not supplied for you. perhaps more often than not people stole that stuff from the hospital - or the hospital cannot afford it....? i guess that is one way to keep the cost of healthcare down! kind of like not getting served a meal anymore on an airplane ride.

not much else to report on this week. we've been busy making spreadsheets and crunching numbers for some analysis for a client. we also worked on better organizing the listings and sales data that we have. we have good stuff, but it was just scattered all over in various documents which had been annoying me. the effort is not done yet, but i think we made a good dent in it. it's always a challenge to keep the data current though. that requires constant maintenance. nothing is static in the real estate world....

Veronica has some sort of a cold or something and is not feeling well. so it will just be me tonight getting my ass kicked and sweating buckets at the spinning studio. hopefully she will feel better later though so we can go over to Lax where Joe's band, XXX, is playing. his daughter, Samantha, who is like 12 and has her own girl band, Crush, is the opening act. it should be interesting as we have heard that Joe is quite talented and perhaps Samantha will take after her Dad and rock the house as well. you're probably thinking, when was the last time i saw a kid band? high school? there are only so many entertainment choices here....