tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68398759890177768542024-02-19T09:49:44.496-05:00Happenings in the house of HokeA fun update on the daily happenings in the Hoke house. From Zen gardening to vacations to football to general life and fun!Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-35278704878050105452014-08-03T18:32:00.000-04:002014-08-03T18:32:59.313-04:00More landscaping projects in the Zen Garden!So before we left for vacation I put poor Tommy to work before he's REALLY at work when football camp starts on August 1st. We have this side yard that was really never completed... at least to fit the rest of the overall Zen Garden theme! We had grass that would not grow on the side yard. And with three dogs we REALLY had grass that would not grow! So we decided (make that I decided...lol!) that we should yank out the grass and continue the stone path, mulch, trees and perennials all the way around the house! Plus I thought it would be very cool to have Tommy build me a raised garden bed as well since the tiny patch I have on the side of the house barely constitutes a garden. So the raised bed was the first project. And my husband being the amazingly awesome guy and all around good egg can never seem to say no to one of my "projects" for him!<br />
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You can see where the grass tried to grow...unsuccessfully with 3 dogs</div>
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aforementioned dogs helping Dad build the new thing in their yard</div>
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at the end of this bed is a huge white generator that we had installed during the big power outage during Christmas this year</div>
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it's coming along really well</div>
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3 beds, the center one raised for tomatoes, pea pods, peppers, lettuce and squash</div>
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Done and fabulous!</div>
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I planted my little plants and the rest we will have to wait and see. I don't get a ton of sun back here so it's an experiment to see what does well and what does not</div>
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Had to fence it from running dogs who decided that running through it was great fun</div>
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Dangit! A fence! How are we supposed to play in this new thing with a fence around it?</div>
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The plants were looking great when we got back from vacation! Squash and peppers on this end...</div>
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overgrown on the lettuce! I am making notes for more efficient planting next year</div>
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our tiny little patch up front with more tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, mint and cilantro</div>
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This was taken before vacation...</div>
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and now!!</div>
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not wanting to waste any space I even planted jalapeños, poblanos, cayenne</div>
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and matchstick peppers in pots on our deck rail!</div>
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Now onto the BIG landscape change back here! We had our favorite landscaper Instant Shade come out and finish the "Zenlike" yard for us with a stone path to the back, mulch, japanese maple, dogwood tree and quite a few other beautiful shrubs and perennials.</div>
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This is where some of Drew's senior photos were taken! Better than MSU gardens!</div>
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Love my little birdy sanctuary!</div>
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Then Francesco said to us (after being disgusted with the row boat guys fishing for big tips) "I'll take you now to the green grotto where you can go in and swim for FREE!"</div>
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He did not lie... it was fabulous! Sorry I had to do a quick grotto selfie of my hubby and me! :-)</div>
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Jen and me swimming in the green grotto</div>
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Coach Hoke finally gets some much needed R and R with an Italian beer!</div>
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Tommy with our awesome boat captain Francesco!</div>
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at one of the ships exclusive Italian restaurants called Portofino's. It's an up charge restaurant </div>
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A much needed day of relaxation and also Drew's 17th birthday!</div>
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Arrivederci Italia and Europe!</div>
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<span id="goog_811345400"></span><span id="goog_811345401"></span><br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-59674056112258186012014-07-18T16:03:00.000-04:002014-07-18T16:03:24.180-04:00Viva Italia and the beautiful Cinque Terre!Our final days on the fabulous Med cruise were spent in Italy. None of us have been to Italy and it did not disappoint at all! Our last 3 days were spent in the ports of La Spezia, Civitavecchia and Naples. We originally had planned to head into Florence via a private tour from La Spezia but after reading about the fabulous Cinque Terre we decided to skip the museum tours (I'm sure our kids were more than grateful) and head to the Cinque Terre.<br />
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It's really easy to tour that area on your own. We trekked to the train station through the lovely village of La Spezia, about a 30 minute walk from the cruise port, and jumped onto the train to Riomaggiore, the first town in the 5 villages. We traveled with a great couple that I met through cruise critic.com's forums that were on the same cruise as us. We had planned to do the Provence wine tour with them in Marseille but bummer we didn't make port.<br />
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This is a map of the Cinque Terre. At the bottom is Portovenere. If you keep going around the corner you will eventually hit La Spezia where we made port.</div>
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Walking through the cute town of La Spezia</div>
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He's there in the red P shirt... Pittsburgh Pirates maybe? I meant to ask...Lol</div>
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Hiking around the upper part of Riomaggiore with Dan and his wife Bre and the kids</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-34055046645077687232014-07-16T09:18:00.002-04:002014-07-16T09:18:23.924-04:00Barcelona and the French Riviera!So we finally met up with Tommy at the airport in Paris en route to a weekend in Barcelona. What an unexpected surprise Barcelona was! My sister in law had always said to me how much she loved Barcelona but I never even really read up on it much, concentrating all of my time reading up on London, Paris, south of France and Italy. We LOVED Barcelona and would go back in a heartbeat!<br />
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We stayed at a beautiful hotel, Le Meridien, in an awesome location right off of La Rambla which is the big bustling avenue. We were directed across the street to a restaurant called Bar Lobo for an amazing lunch of authentic Spanish tapas! SO good that even the kids ate thinly sliced tempura eggplant and loved it. And real sangria... oh the joy of the real deal!<br />
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We hopped an open top hop on hop off bus tour to get a great overview of the city but most especially to see all of Antoni Gaudi's amazing architecture!</div>
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Including his most amazing feat that has yet to be finished, La Sagrada Familia</div>
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One other reason to love Barcelona? Fantastic spanish wine for CHEAP!</div>
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Expensive dinner out on day 2 in Barcelona. I tried to find authentic paella but was unimpressed.</div>
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This is a city that we will definitely return to!</div>
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Cheers Barcelona! See you again next time!</div>
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Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas!</div>
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Huge very cool promenade with...wait for it... a WINE BAR! Yippee!!!</div>
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Drew turned the big 17 on this trip so I surprised him with some birthday decor in his cabin</div>
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Drew being his usual goob self</div>
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We had the perfect setup with the kids in a balcony cabin and we had an adjoining junior suite which was very spacious and the balconies connected for one huge balcony!</div>
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Ferry strike in Marseille. UGH. Everyone in Europe strikes at the drop of a hat we discovered but they really know what they're doing to strike during high tourist season!</div>
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We arrive in Villefranche, France!</div>
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A Bientot!</div>
<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-80163690623780556762014-07-11T16:58:00.000-04:002014-07-15T09:51:45.848-04:003 days in Paris! Ohhhh la la!So our adventure of Mom and teens continues with our super fast train trip to Paris via Eurostar. Honestly the only way to travel - door to door in about 2 1/2 hours. The train is so smooth and quiet - you don't even register that half of the trip you are traveling beneath the English Channel! FYI - I recently found out that Americans are the only ones who use the term "chunnel" here. Too funny.<br />
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Cafe Rousillon is a fabulous cafe and I wish we had headed back here for dinner on our last night versus having a less than average experience at a Chinese restaurant. Oh well...</div>
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So we had a rough day Tuesday and decided to sleep in on Wednesday. We tried to power off a bunch of the sights and started at Notre Dame. We bought tickets for the hop on hop off open top bus which also included tickets to the Batobus on the Seine which is fabulous. This is a pic of the "love lock" bridge as we are going under it. All of the pieces you see on the bridge are padlocks with initials of couples on them.</div>
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and I was able to order the same lunch I had when we were there last year - amazing Spanish stuffed pesto mussels! Mmmmmm!</div>
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One thing we all noticed with displeasure was the abundance of smokers in Europe. You take for granted the fact that most if not all of the US has a no smoking policy in the restaurants. It definitely makes the meal less pleasant having to breathe in someone's cigarette smoke. :-/</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-91019201428711463102014-07-10T17:32:00.002-04:002014-07-10T17:32:33.227-04:0016 Fabulous days in the UK and Europe! Drew's Senior Trip (a little early...)So for the past year and a half I have been planning the trip of a lifetime for our family. It inevitably turned into a "senior" trip for Drew when we decided that doing the big senior year trip the summer before he graduates made more sense than trying to squeeze it in next summer given graduation, open house, college orientation and a summer job. It worked out perfectly to do it this summer!<br />
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We started out as just the kids and me since Tommy wasn't finished up with summer conditioning for football quite yet. It was fine anyway since the kids and I started our first week on our own doing London and Paris and pretty much repeated the exact same trip that Tommy and I took last year.<br />
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I will start the blog with our first 3 days in London and then add each city/area on subsequent blog entries. We took the redeye into Heathrow and landed on June 21st and headed via the tube from Heathrow (which is super easy and CHEAP) directly to our fabulous hotel, the Renaissance St. Pancras. This is exactly the hotel where Tommy and I stayed last year and due to the fantastic asst manager I emailed she hooked us up with the exact same junior suite which was amazing!!! It is now our absolute FAVORITE London hotel and the only place we will stay when visiting London!<br />
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We took the Piccadilly line on the tube straight from Heathrow to our hotel which is right at St. Pancras/Kings Cross Station. Christina Huethwohl, an asst manager there hooked us up with our junior suite and this view from our room!</div>
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Jen's top priority was to get to Camdentown and walk in the footsteps of her favorite musician and idol</div>
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Here is Jen in front of The Hawley Arms, the pub where Amy got her start!</div>
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After the painter did such an amazing job matching our faux paint in the kitchen we decided to hire her to paint the dining room. She suggested a Venetian plaster look and that's what we did. It's amazing! Brick red with texture and a tobacco stain over the top! It's made a huge difference in there!</div>
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Lynette Flowers from Painted Expressions!</div>
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The final steps of the kitchen were small ones but the biggest besides the bay window was the custom cherry built in locker/bench by the garage that you see in the corner</div>
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our bamboo slab from our butcher block for the bench top! Shoes have a place to go rather than</div>
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The beautiful bench top</div>
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I'm a great cook but not much of a baker as evidenced by the lopsided birthday cake that I made for Tommy. At least it was delicious! :-)</div>
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The corner bench blends in beautifully with the rest of the kitchen and just completes it</div>
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this range is my dream range! Oven and a half with 4 gas burners and a French cooktop!</div>
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Fabulous new custom order counter and bar stools arrived! Love these chairs from Arhaus!</div>
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Solid handmade cherry and match the rest of our cabinets and flooring beautifully!</div>
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BIG line from dark wood to lighter color wood which is how it looked when we installed it</div>
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Brazilian cherry flooring that we had installed 8 years ago. Not an easy task.</div>
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They finally found some in Canada and patched in the flooring</div>
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The final "Behemoth" as the guys called it. Weighs over 800 pounds. Better them than me!</div>
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Jenna Way, our kitchen designer from McDaniel's drew up the entire plan and did a fabulous job! We are going to LOVE our new kitchen! Fortunately the process has been relatively painless for us living in construction since we have a full bar area off our dining room with a full sized refrigerator and bar countertop. We moved our little counter top Breville convection/toaster oven to the bar and microwave as well which pretty much gives us everything we need. We just can't do anything on a range but thank goodness it's starting to warm up enough to grill so we've been doing just fine.<br />
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My beautiful new KitchenAid micro/convection oven. Butcher block will sit above it right next to the range. The door opens down like an oven and looks like a small oven rather than a microwave. I've gone from a one oven kitchen to three now!</div>
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Tommy and I have wanted to redo our kitchen for the longest time. With life in football you never know how long you're going to live where you are so we waited and waited and waited thinking maybe we will move and build or find the perfect house. Well it's looking more and more like we are here for awhile so we decided... no time like the present! So we headed out to McDaniel's kitchen and bath and started our new kitchen design with a fantastic kitchen designer there. The process started on Monday with covering the floor and tearing out the existing island. We aren't doing an entire kitchen remodel but rather changing out the appliances to my dream appliances, Sub Zero and Wolf Range and making the island HUGE for real workable counter space for me. Lots of cool additions in that with 2 levels of seating at the island, granite, bamboo butcher block in the island, etc.</div>
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this little cabinet is a junk holder for the kids and has got to go!</div>
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little island and Jenn-Air range with downdraft. Love the range but the downdraft</div>
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This was Monday! Covered the floor (replacing and patching some of the Brazilian cherry hardwood floor will be a challenge...) and took out the island and appliances</div>
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and new granite countertops. The marble tile backsplash will go all the way down to the countertop. My fabulous KitchenAid dishwasher will stay as well. Love that thing - Consumer Reports was right,</div>
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it's quiet as hell and a fabulous dishwasher! I've had it for about 8 years and it's still going strong!</div>
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Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-43090225734738432022014-04-15T07:42:00.002-04:002014-04-15T07:42:35.414-04:00Belize Spring Break Fun! The last days of a great vacation!Well all good things eventually must come to an end and our fabulous vacation was no exception. What a fantastic, fun and adventure filled week we had! Can't beat a vacation that starts out at an amazing Eco lodge in the jungle followed by cave tubing and zip lining and ending with scuba diving that included an up close and personal experience with dolphins! Well one of us got that experience while the rest of us got massages on the beach. Choices...<br />
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We celebrated all of the kids diving success at Roadkill Bar for Wade's famous Gringo burgers!</div>
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It has really been an amazing trip with great fun and great friends! I hope we can all do it again someday soon!</div>
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Our final pic is after we got home taken yesterday in my backyard. Two Belizean island dogs from the same fantastic place, Saga Humane Society are now neighbors and friends!</div>
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If you travel to Belize and fall in love with an island dog, please know how absolutely EASY it is to take one home! No major hassles or quarantines whatsoever. Just a health certificate, a crate, an airline ticket and a lifetime of love!</div>
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Bye for now Belize! See you next year in March!!</div>
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So our adventures continue on our island paradise! The wind was howling and the sea was pretty rough on Monday so our diving was canceled. Tuesday it was unbelievably calm and out we went. Jenny J. had her first open water dive while Drew, Jennifer and I dove. Kris, Jenny B. and Molly all snorkeled with us. The pool work didn't go too well for Molly so she decided to try snorkeling to get her "sea legs" first. (pun intended haha!)<br />
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Couple of errands first - gotta stop at Maria's fruit stand and get the islands best fruit, produce and her fresh squeezed juices! She will make whatever kind of juice you want to order!</div>
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Junior Tillet - the island's most fabulous instructor giving Jenny her lesson and dive brief</div>
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Drew is a working man this week working for Junior during his Rescue course and to get some free diving!</div>
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Venancio (Junior) Tillet - Maya God of Scuba Divers!</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-17465729350084380592014-04-09T09:39:00.000-04:002014-04-09T09:39:45.739-04:00Belize spring break! Days 3 and 4The adventures of Moms and teens continue on our island paradise of Ambergris Caye, Belize! Sunday was somewhat of a chill day with some adventure mixed in as well. Jenny and Molly headed to scuba school Belize in the afternoon to start working on their confined water skills in the pool. Drew is working on his Rescue Diver course - hope we don't need any rescuing!<br />
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Here's Jenny and Molly doing their pool skills</div>
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Here's Drew with Junior working on his next certification. Believe it or not Drew was 8 and Junior introduced him to Padi bubble makers for his first dive experience. He's grown up a little bit since then!</div>
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We took a break from diving as the weather was pretty rough and headed to Saga Humane Society where my sweet dog Mango came from almost 4 years ago!</div>
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The day was topped off with perfection with dinner at Wild Mango's! Our favorite favorite island restaurant and our Saga dogs namesake!</div>
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Day one started with a 3:45am wake up call to head to the airport. 3 Moms (including me) and 4 teens starting with Jenny and Molly both on their senior spring break trip and Drew and Jen my two, 16 and 13. Poor Drew, he's the solo guy on the trip. Although I think he can handle us just fine!<br />
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Day one has us flying to Belize City with a van pickup and 2 hour drive north to a fabulous eco lodge near San Ignacio called The Lodge at Chaa Creek. Beautiful resort in the jungle but pretty much you, a few other guests and the howler monkeys and wildlife.<br />
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Hiked about 30 minutes through the jungle to the entrance</div>
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Done cave tubing and headed to Belize Municipal airport for our Tropic Air flight to Ambergris Caye and our condo!</div>
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Here we are at our home in Belize, Grand Colony island villas. Kris is roughing it with a Beliken beer</div>
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Absolutely fabulous first 2 days here!</div>
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BEFORE: one sink/vanity area and toilet, no storage, 2 kids = YIKES!</div>
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AFTER - double sink top with huge vanity cabinet full of drawers and individual space for teenagers</div>
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BEFORE: fiberglass tub/shower combo unit, very small space</div>
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standing in the shower looking back at the opposite wall where we have towel hooks installed. Incidentally my daughter's towel that should be on the hook is on the floor in a wad in her room... Aaaack!!!!</div>
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BEFORE: the dryer in the photo is now where the toilet is and the empty space to the right is where the shower is.</div>
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AFTER: after a lot of heartburn I got the beautiful tile shower that I wanted in the first place! It was our good luck that the fiberglass shower sat on a loading dock in NC for weeks with no signs of heading north! Problem solved - tile shower! :-)</div>
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We are absolutely thrilled with this remodel! We couldn't be happier! Our neighbor who works for Raven Enterprises did this entire design for us and I honestly don't think we changed anything from his design at all (except for splurging on the tile shower...). Right down to little things that I don't have an eye for like the pendant lights and the laundry counter, really enhanced this bathroom/laundry room combo. We have utilized nearly every square foot of space between these two rooms and the kids have privacy for shower and toilet while someone else uses the laundry and sink area in the front room.</div>
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Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-65445242378097116632013-04-13T09:27:00.004-04:002013-04-13T09:27:42.622-04:00Bathroom remodel...inching closer to completionSo here we are 5 weeks in. You know what they say about the best laid plans... nothing ever goes quite on schedule with a remodel but it's all worth it. It is really coming together, nearly done and absolutely beautiful! We are thrilled with the results!<br />
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almost there! The only things left on the list are to finish tiling the shower, grout, install shower doors and trim and finish painting that room and voila, we are done!</div>
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I will post before and after photos on the final blog post but I love how this has turned out and that we are maximizing every inch of space in these two rooms!</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-90902369692318345152013-04-05T19:21:00.001-04:002013-04-05T19:21:13.540-04:00Bathroom remodel update 3 - the final stretchSo we are SO close to having this bathroom completed. It's really coming along beautifully and I have to say, aside from the small glitches here and there it's been relatively smooth. The biggest challenge for me has been sharing our bathroom with a 12 year old girl who is all about her hair at the moment and not having laundry facilities for a month. Yikes! Thanks to some great neighbors we have had laundry services down the street but it's really not the same as having it down the hallway. The washer and dryer are scheduled to be reinstalled finally! Yay!!! I feel as though I have weeks of steaming laundry piling up so we are ready to have that convenience again. Cabinets, tile floor and double marble sink are all in and hopefully the final electric and plumbing will be for the most part completed this week with toilet, faucets, pendant lights and hookups. Towel bars, hooks etc tomorrow and then the shower...the one point of consternation in this whole process. The story being I ended up settling on a fiberglass shower insert from Sterling/Kohler instead of the tile shower that I REALLY wanted due to excess $$$$. I really had to talk myself into it but we also needed to get the bathroom remodel cost to a place that we could live with and the tile shower wasn't in the budget. Suffice it to say, the fiberglass shower walls are still sitting in North Carolina with no date on the schedule as to when they might be shipped north. Very frustrating. Been sitting there for weeks. So after tweaking some numbers again and using the tile that we got a GREAT deal on at Home Depot the tile shower is back ON! Yippee! Hopefully next week will see the final completion of the project and my final blog post on the bathroom. But for the latest update I'll post some pics.<br />
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Cabinets and sink top going in. One small problem, cabinets and vanity top are 50" wide with a space of only 49 1/2" to fit in! Yikes! Some creative finagling and Jeff got them in! Maybe a bit of paint touch up from us this weekend is in the plan however...</div>
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The cabinets next to my added in little cubby shelf and shower that I hope will be installed sometime in 2013!!</div>
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FRIDAY END OF WEEK UPDATE!</div>
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So we are nearly there. Tommy will touch up paint this weekend, the guys will come back next week and put the mirror in and the pulls on the cabinets and the best part...</div>
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This is one of the really cool things about the Renaissance St Pancras, this was taken looking out from the hotel to the Eurostar trains that depart from here every day.</div>
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After lunch we went in search of a Trip Advisor recommended fromagerie called Marie Cantin's for some of her famous cheese and sea salt butter</div>
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We found her shop on the Rue de Champ de Mars and bought some brie and butter to take back to the hotel with a baguette and some wine for a late afternoon snack.</div>
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Walking around the corner from her shop was a lovely market called Market Rue Cler. I highly recommend this cute area to shop for wine, produce, cheese, bread and pastries, the works!</div>
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The French take their cheese very seriously!</div>
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You could smell these shops a block away!</div>
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Yup - I found my nirvana, the wine shops!!</div>
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So on our very last day of vacation, our last day in Paris, it was supposed to rain rain rain! It ended up being 60 degrees and sunny all day! We certainly didn't plan our visit to the Louvre very well or we would have done that the day before when it actually did rain all day! But who can complain, it was gorgeous and a fantastic way to end our trip!</div>
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This is the Pont de l'Archeveche. I can tell you that as we walked up to this bridge and saw it glimmering in the sun I said to my husband, "Look at that pretty bridge". I had no idea it was the famed "love lock" bridge that has caused a great deal of consternation on Trip Advisor's forums. The idea is to take a padlock with you and your partner's name engraved on it, lock it to the bridge and keep it there for all eternity. Many people on TA are furious about it feeling that it pollutes the area and is ugly.</div>
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We ended our last evening in Paris at a tremendous wine bar cafe called L'Ecluse. It was absolutely fantastic and I finally got my foie gras that I had been dying for!</div>
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Here you go Drew - if you get a car from us for your 16th birthday don't be surprised if it looks like this!</div>
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What a fantastic trip this was! Our time in Paris was way too short and has inspired us to return next year in the summer with the kids. </div>
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Adieu Paris and we will be back very soon!</div>
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On Wednesday we started our day with a trip to the British Library which was right next door to our hotel. No photos allowed there but to see the actual Magna Carta among other ancient books, bibles such as the Gutenberg bible circa 1454 etc. was really cool. We then headed to see the usual sights like Westminster Abbey (planned to go in but it was £21, ouch, so we opted for the outside view), the Tower Bridge and Tower of London, Churchill War rooms (very cool) finishing up with a trip through Harrods food market and tea in the infamous Harrods tea room. Then dinner at Jamie Oliver's restaurant Barbecoa with our London friends - fantastic restaurant!!!<br />
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Dinner at Barbecoa with our friends that we met in the Grenadines - what an amazing restaurant complete with beautiful views of St. Paul's cathedral from your table!</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-39752680311356723392013-03-31T11:57:00.002-04:002013-03-31T11:57:18.306-04:00Bathroom Remodel UpdateWell I figured I would take a quick break from blogging our trip to do a bathroom remodel update. I had forgotten honestly how miserable it is to live in a house that is being remodeled. I think it's like childbirth, the mind has a way of erasing the unpleasantness of the process so that you only think of how happy you are with the end result that you're willing to do it again! Someone please remind me of this when I start talking about remodeling the kitchen PLEASE!!!<br />
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All in all this has gone relatively smoothly. (I hope I didn't just jinx us...). Our neighbor is our contractor which is really helpful and convenient. He may feel otherwise...haha! We've just finished week 3 of what we hope to be 4 weeks to completion. I think we are pretty close to being on schedule, just a slight snag with the shower unit being backordered. I had to be picky and choose a non-stocked color! Ugh!<br />
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So here we are moving all of the plumbing around. The new washer/dryer hookups are in the wall as they should have been in the first place, nice to have it properly done this time. This is where the old tub/shower unit was.</div>
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When they framed in the shower area in the back room, I saw an opportunity for more storage in the space to the left!! So I had two shelves framed in!</div>
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There's my little cubby! Toilet paper, shampoo, shower gel and everything else a teenager needs but is too lazy to actually open a cabinet to get will go here on these little bonus shelves!</div>
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Mario is putting the new tile in...</div>
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And this weekend is our turn. Drywall is mostly all up, tile is down and grouted and we are painting in here as much as we can before cabinets go in on Monday. (she says hopefully...)</div>
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Painting this weekend and hopefully the finishing touches of everything will happen next week. Cabinet installation, vanity, shower, washer/dryer (please God let the washer/dryer happen) pendant lights, towel bars, the works!</div>
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Painting is done! The back room which is now the toilet and shower room is a color called chocolate truffle!</div>
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The front room is a lighter more mocha latte color for a bit of contrast but not being too dark.</div>
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I will post the grand finale next week! (she says hopefully...) :-)</div>
<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-85198864901936097912013-03-28T17:45:00.000-04:002013-03-28T17:45:38.613-04:00London!So after a fun filled long weekend in the English countryside taking in the sights (and even more pubs) Tommy and I were up bright and early to catch the very fast Virgin train from Birmingham to London. I tell you I really wish the US would adopt train travel as is done in the UK and Europe. No need to rent a car on vacation or even take a car on a commute. The trains are so easy to catch and are very fast. We left B'Ham at 8:30 and arrived at Euston Station in London by 11 am!<br />
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I studied here in London for my spring semester at Michigan State many moons ago and have been back a couple of times but for whatever reason I never made it back to my old dorm area off Baker street. That was rectified on this trip as I really wanted Tommy to see where I spent 3 great months in college.<br />
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We arrived at our hotel, the Renaissance St Pancras which is an historic old restored building that was absolutely beautiful! This is the view from our fantastic room!</div>
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We were upgraded to a junior suite in the old historic chambers club section of the hotel. I highly recommend this hotel and this particular section if you want a 5 star, luxurious and historic stay!</div>
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Never made it into this restaurant but it's notorious for it's rude wait staff! Sounds very much like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld! We ended up at a Trip Advisor recommended restaurant called The Four Seasons instead. I suspect that some of Wong Kei's waitstaff migrated over here based on our experience!</div>
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So next we headed over to Baker street station and headed to find Hanover Lodge, my old dorm. Fortunately I did some research to find out that they razed the old dorm and built beautiful individual villas. Hanover Lodge, the original Hanover Lodge, was restored and sold for £120!! It has made history as the most expensive home sold in the UK! It's a far cry from my old dorm let me tell you!</div>
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This villa right next door is where I believe the large dorm actually was with the original "Hanover Lodge" home next to it</div>
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This was my old college that we would walk to through Regent's park every morning to get to classes</div>
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My beautiful walk every morning through the park to get to class. Just Like the beautiful walk on MSU's campus as well!</div>
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One more trip down memory lane took us to my favorite fish and chip shop, The Seashell of Lisson Grove. Back then there was only a take away window with a picnic table out front if you wanted to eat it there. They still have the take away window but now a fancy restaurant next door which we opted to do.</div>
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Topped it off with my new favorite British drink - Aspall's Suffolk Cyder! YUM!</div>
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Wouldn't be our trip if we just had statues and historic buildings now would it?! Finished off a great first day and a half in London at the pub!</div>
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Lord knows we wouldn't want our alcohol titers to drop so Sharon breaks out the Buck's fizz! (mimosas here in the US)</div>
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So this pub was established in the 1400's if you can imagine! Great pub with great history! More photos later during our visit there (you didn't think we wouldn't go in did you?!!)</div>
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After a fun day in Stratford we headed to Birmingham to visit a CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) pub where there were 16 different ales on tap. Tommy and Kevin were determined to get through the entire menu which they did! Thankfully we took the train in from Longbridge so we were responsible drinkers!</div>
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One of the cool things about this pub is you can bring in your own food. Poor Sharon shlepped a giant bag with bread, a cheeseboard and some egg and sausage leftover from breakfast (just to annoy Kevin who doesn't do leftovers!)</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-83614514716304817772013-03-24T12:02:00.000-04:002013-03-24T12:02:31.695-04:00England Day 2 - Warwick castleSo we stayed with our friends Sharon and Kevin at their place in Longbridge near Birmingham. We tried to shake off our jet lag but sadly NO COFFEE in the morning for most Brits. I had to make due with tea and believe me, it didn't cut it for this coffee addict. Suffice it to say, as soon as we headed out for the day to visit Warwick castle and we entered the place, I smelled coffee brewing and I was like a starving dog running to a giant piece of meat! Coffee...nirvana...ahhhhh. What fun visiting Warwick castle, even the "Disney-esque" theatrics in the dungeon were pretty entertaining.<br />
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Beautiful town of Warwick with the cathedral in the background</div>
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Taken from inside the castle up above</div>
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<br />Rachel Hokehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16976137412957984861noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6839875989017776854.post-43166419437323852752013-03-22T17:00:00.000-04:002013-03-22T17:00:04.459-04:00Anniversary trip to London and Paris!! DAY ONESo I've gone from not posting anything on this blog for months to finally catching up on things. The blog is great if for no other reason than to document our travels as a travel journal of sorts so that we can remember the great places we went, things that we did and our favorite restaurants and cafes! I planned this trip as a surprise anniversary gift for hubby and boy was he ever surprised!!! He's never been across the pond so this was a great first trip to the UK and a quick jaunt over to Paris as well. Amazing how close everything is once you get over there.<br />
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I splurged and used up all of my FF miles with Delta (along with robbing some miles out of Tommy's and the kids accounts as well unbeknownst to them!) for first class seats to London. Boy were they ever worth the 200,000 miles! I'd like to fly internationally like that every time!<br />
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champagne anniversary toast before departure!</div>
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a few glasses of wine and warm nuts before dinner</div>
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and a 6 page menu with first, second and third courses, dessert and a fabulous wine list! Yay for me and the fabulous wine list! Haha!</div>
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Ooooh la la look at the dessert cart complete with liqueurs, fancy cheeses, cakes and ice cream sundaes! Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and the gorgeous model are sitting in first class and he says "More everything!!" Hahaha!</div>
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Kevin and Sharon, our British friends, arrive at Heathrow to pick us up and we headed directly to Leicester for a rugby game! Pub first of course...</div>
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Tommy's first proper British pint! (many more to come I can assure you...)</div>
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Fun to watch this game, probably the closest thing they have to American football although after scoring a touchdown (called a Try) when they go to kick the extra points (a try is worth 5 points and the kick is worth 2) the entire stadium hushes to complete silence!! CRAZY! I felt like I was at a PGA tournament NOT a football game. I can't wait until Sharon and Kevin come visit us in September and we take them to Spartan Stadium. If you see a bald British guy standing up trying to Shoosh everyone during the kick for the extra point just say "Hey Kevin - welcome to the States mate!" Haha!</div>
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Yup - another lager at home before dinner! They knocked themselves out painting and getting the place looking fabulous for us and it was exactly that - FABULOUS!</div>
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We ended the evening with dinner out with great friends of Sharon and Kevin's, Jo and Bern. Loved them! We had a fabulous Indian dinner at a restaurant called The New Dilshad in the cute little town of Alvechurch. This restaurant was SO good that Tommy has now converted to an Indian food fan from a former non-fan. Yay!! Now to find anything nearly as good in the States...</div>
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hookups for the double sink/vanity where the single sink and toilet used to be. I hope this cuts down on teenage arguing... well one can hope anyway! </div>
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the back room. The door is moving to the left as well.</div>
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and the new door entrance to the back room, now shifted to the left. Cherry cabinets, toilet and free standing shower (no tub since we have teenagers) will all go back here.</div>
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So we are still finishing up framing of the back room for the shower, etc. and the plumber still has a bit left to do. Electricians were here all day yesterday. Inspections tomorrow then drywall and tile next week. I will update as we progress!!</div>
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