Progress

I think we came up with names for the casitas. The one on the south is very private and has a great view of the Pacific Ocean. This is the one that has a cross type of opening on the wall. We are going to put glass blocks in this opening since it is the window in the shower. The shower will also be made of glass blocks. This room will be a king room. They put an arch as the entry to the patio while I was away. Not sure about it. I keep thinking we need to make it angular, since there are no arches anywhere, but maybe not. Anyway we may name this one Casita Pacifica because of the view.

When you are on the patio of the second casita you have a view of the south and north beaches, but the mountains stretch out in front of you. The mountain range throughout the Baja is called Sierra de la Laguna. We may name this Casita la Laguna. This room has a great round window that when you are laying in your queen bed you can look up the north coast, all the way up to Cerritos beach. We are making this room all flagstone, with a sunken bathtub, also made of flagstone.

The casita that is attached to our house we are kind of thinking will be for family so we are putting two queen beds in it. The locals call the place where we are building “La Boca” which means “mouth”. We thought to name this room Casita la Boca, since the view is up the north coast, all along “la boca”. We are making this casita have a red brick arch and design behind the beds to appear like we left some of the original wall, which would have been brick. The shower and bath is being patterned after a Moroccan bath I saw in a book.

When I was gone they blocked in the pool and hot tub. This week they will be cementing over the block. The pool wraps around two sides of the main room of the house and the hot tub is right outside our bedroom door.

The stone path which we will use to bring people and luggage up to the top is done and you will notice it in some of the pictures. It begins in our parking area and wraps around Casita la Laguna and ends by Casita la Boca. What do you think of the names????

Our bedroom is being built now. It is on the north side of the construction and will have a loft on top so Maurice can have his “man cave” as my sister Barbara named it. This will serve as his office and if we decide to have a TV it will be up there. Not sure if we will name this room or not. We will offer it for rent but only if someone takes the whole place for a week. 4 rooms total. Would be good for 10 people. Maurice and I would then move back into our bodega. At least that is the plan now but who knows.

Here are some pictures I took yesterday morning, before the sun cracked through the sky. I love these cool mornings, especially walking on the beach. Maybe I will take my camera tomorrow and capture Retro chasing the crabs on the beach. Sometimes he wins and sometimes the crabs do. It is a funny sight.