Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...

I never thought that there would be this much to plan, buy, decide on a new house. WOW!!!
We now have our windows and are already installing them.
We purchased over $10,000 worth of rock to go around the outside of the house and it is also being installed, (is that what you do with rock? Install it?)
We ordered garage doors, both a 9 foot and a 16 foot one for the two openings at the back of the house.
Doors for the master bedroom, the kitchen and the front of the house are also on order. The kitchen is getting a french door, our bedroom a glass door with a up/down shade inside the glass, and the front door has sidelights. Of course I had to set my heart on a really expensive wood front door by Simpson called the Bellaire.
Now we are moving on to finalize our fireplace plans, the cabinets in bathrooms and kitchen, as well as my scraproom, tub and showers as well as the vanities. I like the styles they sell at Costco, like the Ove Decors Moon Vanity, the Ove Decors Mist Vanity, the Ove Decors Bali Double Vanity, and the DECOLAV 41" Antiqued Espresso Finish Vanity. Now I just need to get the correct measurements and I can go shopping. Yeah!

First Flight Behind Me...

On Friday I completed what's known in the industry as my "OE" or On-board Experience. There were seven of us on board, including the senior flight attendant, and two already OE'd gal's from our class. So the 5 of us who were "new" got to rotate through most of the stations to get some hands-on experience. It wasn't as smooth as everyone would have liked, but we got it done. On the way out, from Bellingham to Orange County Airport in California, we had 51 passengers on our airplane, which holds a full capacity of 150. For the return trip we only transported 23 people north, but we made them all feel pampered and taken care of. Some of the small issues we had to battle were frozen water trucks, (hence no potable H2O on the first leg of our flight!), a broken wing light (which caused us to have to delay take-off till first light!), so we were running a wee bit late. LOL All the meals, breakfasts on the outbound and lunch on the return flight, were catered by Haggen, a great grocery chain here in the area. All comments from the passengers regarding the meals were positive and everyone seemed to enjoy the flights.
I am on call tomorrow and will fly to Phoenix on Thursday afternoon.

Over the weekend Martin & I flew San Juan Airlines to Orcas Island for a Birthday Getaway weekend with some friends. We stayed at Rosario Resort on the island, a wonderful historic mansion, where we had a wonderful dinner and cocktails followed by a lively game of poker. The weather co-operated with us on Saturday and we had a wonderful view on the flight out, whereas coming home we experienced a bit of turbulence. We plan on doing this kind of thing more often, as we enjoyed our time away from cell phones and responsibilities. Grace stayed home with her Auntie Chelle, but we missed each other during the time we spent apart.