update

The Family Place is becoming a very noisy place these days. The air conditioners are being installed and because of the thick, old stone walls, it is proving to be quite a challenge! Take a look at that drill bit; it took hours to get through the wall with that thing.
The noise from the mega drill is deafening and it vibrates the whole building. As I have mentioned, our building is very old so replacing missing tiles is proving to be a challenge also. We were sent to a huge tile factory where we were told we might find some of the old patterns. We dug through 1000's of tiles and came up with something that matches slightly. Since we do not own the building (YET) we don't want to tear out all the old tiles and put in new. The owner told us today that the fireplace in our cafe is close to 200 years old. How cool is that? Darrell has a project a minute and he works long hours over at the building. The fact is that he cannot leave the workers there alone so he has to be there anyways. Today, at one point, we had 2 foreigners meeting with their language helper in our office, 3 painters, 2 electricians, our business partner, the landlord and Darrell and me all at the center at the same time. It's fun to see activity around and know that things are slowly getting knocked off the list. When our US teams arrive we will really see some huge leaps forward. Can't wait!!