AFTERMATH OF EMILY IN MEXICO!!!

Hi: it is 6 a.m. here, i have been working all day cleaning up the mess
from the storm.

Mostly just blown sand and some water, a few leaves. we are 50% open, basically only our personal are not finished. that will be done today.


We discovered that some water had leaked into a couple of rooms, and a few
mattresses were wet, but 90 degrees and lots of good sunshine has fixed that
problem.

We are replacing one mattress that was damaged, but it was old anyway and would have to be replaced in a couple of months, with the other older mattresses.

I am getting a new bed, now all i need is time to use it!!

The general feeling here is that we lucked out for this storm.

Emily changed direction once it was on land, and exited the yucatan about 50 miles
east of us, so we missed a lot of the worst stuff. and most everyone has the
problem that we are relieved that we did not get hit badly while we also did
not want to profit from someone else´s misfortune.

To top it all off, i have a cooler full of munchie food that we have to eat!!

Pasta that we cooked before the storm to use when the power was off and not waste gas, hard-boiled eggs which are now going into salads and sandwiches, etc.

We prepared a picnic basket for 3 days worth, so now we are eating it.

We have had many phone calls from canada and the states, and many emails from
all over wishing us well and enquiring how we made out.

We are pleased that so many are concerned on our behalf.

There are many others on the carribean coast that have bigger problems, we hope
that things will work out for them, as well. we know that there are some tough
times coming over there, for we have enquiries for space from vacationers who
are flying into cancun international airport and not being able to go
to the place they had expected. so they are looking for something else, the
air tickets and vacation time can not be changed at this late date for
them.

So we Will get new customers and they will not have the usual business in the
high season and we feel guilty that their misfortune is our good fortune. i just
can´t win!!

I thank everyone who wrote or called.