Short Stop-in Havasu (04-23-15)

Life is quite busy right now, and our stop in Lake Havasu was a brief one. We arrived in town just in time to meet up with our friends Kirk and Karen, who were on their way back to California from Mexico.

We showed them around town, and of course stopped by the model home to show off what our new house will sort of look like.

One of the things we like about Havasu is that there always seems to be something going on. 





  After Kirk and Karen went on their way, we realized that the coming weekend there was going to be a Poker Run, featuring  boats that attain speeds in excess of 160 mph. {Update; This year's Shoot Out  Race winner topped out at 182 mph}

Although we wouldn't be in town for the actual races (Next year!), we heard about the Desert Storm Street Party.  The main road in Havasu was closed to traffic, and many of the race boats were on display.

These boats represent some serious money….

and as Paul said “some serious testosterone”.

Many of the “players” showed off their cars and trucks as well-

We saw a Maserati, a Ferrari and a GT, among others.

As I said, we would have loved to have been here for the races, but that’s OK- we have some awesome plans for the weekend and were quite happy to head out on our mini road trip.

House Update

When we were last in town, the grading of the lot had been started but not finished.  It is now done and here are the before and after pictures.  What a huge difference!  We weren't completely satisfied with the job the grader did, so we asked Wes to meet us at the lot. 

 He explained that a few areas will have to be finished later, once the house is started, but also agreed with us that they stopped short of the lot line, and need to bring in some more fill to finish the job.

Here’s the view looking towards the lake-before-

and after-

Here is looking towards the street- before-

and after.

While we were in Vegas we looked at granite, and once we got to Havasu we started trying to narrow down some other items.  We have chosen the exterior color ( a very light sandy looking color):




And we have also chosen the roof color. The company we are working with sent us around town to look at houses that are the same color as the ones we were interested in, so it was easier to make a decision.

We looked at a lot of floor tiles and think we have a decision made, but we will revisit it some other time.  We really need to look a the granite, floor tile, wall color and back splash all together to see if it works for us, but we don’t have the time right now.  At least the basic exterior colors are chosen!