And this is the view from the back of the stairs. It gives you an idea of just how well the place is secure now! Our kitchen equipment is on its way in a cargo from Miami this very minute and is due to be with us Tuesday, so we really needed to get the place secure in time for then.

We have now had our security gates put in. They are a sight at first and do take some getting used to, but they do the trick. We do not want anyone to be able to climb over the wall and enter the restaurant that way. This is what you see as you approach the restaurant.

The bedroom. Well, the will-be kitchen! The bath, sink etcetera has actually been removed, I just forgot to take the camera today to give you all up-to-date photos. But I will get some soon enough as tomorrow we are going into Belize City to pick up our crockery, a till and to give our 'Corkers' logo to a seamstress who will then have it embroidered onto some polo shirts for staff to wear. And us of course!

This is now the bathroom! It is the soon-to-be wash-up area for the kitchen. We have people in there as we speak smoothing the walls down ready for a sink to go there and for the walls to be tiled around it. The shower that you can see on the left will be a wash pipe coming down into the sink with what would look like a shower head on it so the dishes can be rinsed down. to the far left where the toilet was, a waste disposal unit will be going in and then a large draining board.

...and this is the bathroom.

Or should I say was the bathroom!

Ok, moving on from green floors, does everyone remember the first bedroom? This is the one nearest the restaurant that we were deciding what to do with. Well this
is the view of it from the doorway looking in....

And the view of the bottom of the stairs. Please excuse the drips of green on the inside of the steps - they will be painted white when it stops raining! That's the rainy season for you!

Going down the top set of stairs

Walkway down to the stairs all painted and pretty

The entrance/exit hallway

Alltogether everybody..."ahhh...."

So now we have a little lip of olive around the edge of the floor going up the wall just to finish it off.

....as you can see!

In this picture we have removed the railings. We have plans to put a nice piece of mahogany on the wall to make a long table and put stools on the balcony to the right to make a nice seating area rather than having lots of individual tables. This is much more cost effective and also a little different! Plus it makes the outside look a lot more spacious and open....

As you come up the stairs leading to the restaurant and you keep walking along the side this is what you see. Now the building you can see there is actually two hotel rooms which were included within our lease. Initially we were not going to do anything with them as of yet however as the kitchen is too small for Geoff then we are going to turn the first bedroom into a kitchen and know the wall through that faces the entrance to the restaurant to make it an open plan kitchen. So watch this space for pictures of that!

And now for the floor. Guess what colour? Yep - green!

Curtain poles. Finishing touches. We are not actually having curtains but when we do what we plan on doing with them then I wil post pictures
and you will see!

And the cubicle doors in the ladies and the gents we had replaced so they are plain wood. The ones you can see here are from the ladies.

Just finishes it off nicely.