More Field of Dreams Photos
Chris and I sitting on the bar wondering what to do next.
One group booking, twelve prison guards from Rikers Island in New York, wanted the bar and restaurant open 24 hours a day. SO! Chris worked from 4 in the afternoon to 4 am un the morning. I worked from 4 am till 4 in the afternoon.
Good division of duties as he liked to stay up late and I had no problems getting up early. It was a very profitable long weekend.
Putting ice in cooler getting ready for the drinking clients.
I'd say the sale has not come a moment too soon. We only averaged 4 rooms a night in April. 120 in total. I have been using my pension to make good on the shortfall but since I turned 65 in April I'll loose about $560.00 a month in the supplementary pension my company was kicking in each month.
The bar restaurant still should be in the black this month but it isn't.
I have to wait for a couple who got stranded here for 4 days with no money. They were in an all-inclusive but without any money left on their credit cards they couldn't go back after they missed their flight to Montreal. I spotted the food and the $40.00 needed to pay the departure tax. If they send the money ($265.00) as promised we'll be about $200.00 to the good.
In the spring, April of 2006, Wanda gave me a surprise birthday party.
When she was with me she was fantastic, hard worker, sexy and the best woman I could ever imagine or want to be with. But she could fall in love with some Dominican in a flash and leave to live with him.
In that summer her son and daughter came to live in the hotel for 6 weeks. They had a lot of fun and beside the hotel was a quad wheeler tourist trips. Well one of the guys took the kids out a couple times and hit on Wanda. She fell for him and told me she was leaving.
She wanted her liquidation (wages owed for working over a year) in cash. I gave her $600us in cash. She left with her brother to buy a bed for her new apartment. The brother took a $100us to get it changed to pesos. He never came back. At first she claimed I had not given her the money but I had the taxi driver, Victor as a witness to her getting the money.
She was so embarrassed she left for Consuelo instead of living in Puerto Plata.
Looking from the roof towards the entrance to my 2 bedroom apartment.
Just behind the 4 blue lounge chairs is the apartment where Wanda and I lived during the 3 years of construction and managing the hotel. It was a very convient and comfortable place to live. It had two bedrooms and a large kitchen living area.
Wanda and Janina sitting at the bar after serving the lunch time meals.
The severance pay (liquidation of employees) came to a little over $3000.00 dollars. After I had paid the water bill, taxes and accountant it made for a lousy May with only 84 rooms occupied. And that included a group here for the 3 day May 17th weekend and Martin who was here for a month. The only good part was the restaurant which because I was selling and not replacing stack made over $1,000.00 dollars.
The morning sunrise at the Field of Dreams a beautiful time of day.
When we finished building I still owed the architects $5,000.00. They were good enough to wait untill the hotel was doing better. Helena had been around last year and I had some surplus so I gave her $500.00.
She had not ask for anymore as she had moved on to other projects. She did pass on the debit to her former partner and now her partner is after the remaining money owed. I told her she'd have to wait until after the sale closes.