Room with a view $

Our new house overlooking Half Moon Bay.

After three weeks of searching, I think we have found our new home here in St. Kitts!  Initially, I was searching for a one bedroom place for Rob and I to live in starting in January.  After a fruitless search, we decided to team up with Trevor and Kate and find a bigger place. Trevor and I engaged in some more fruitless searching, but finally found a great place Wednesday morning. We dragged out butts out of bed at 8:30 AM to meet with our realtor, Jo. She took us to the "Dolphin House" in Half Moon Bay. Totally worth getting up before 10 AM!
The house has three bedrooms (perfect if anyone wants to come visit!), 2.5 baths, garage/car port, papaya and coconut trees, a pool, and an INCREDIBLE view!!!

This is the view from the back patio toward the pool, golf course, and Atlantic Ocean!

Hopefully we will sign the lease early next week, and we'll only be 10 weeks from our rad beach pad! I am mostly excited to have a real kitchen again. I am also pretty excited about the view... ok, and the pool. Alright, I admit it, I am excited about the whole place!

One more thing. You might be wondering why it's called the Dolphin House. Well, the property slopes down toward the back, so the rear of the pool is above ground. What to do with a blank wall? I know, paint a huge underwater themed mural! Also, no dolphins are present in the mural- just orcas (which I think are in the dolphin family, but it's still a stretch). The paint is fading at the top where the pool water spills over. I can't decide if I hate it or if it is so outlandish that I love it. Either way, you can only see it from the very end of the backyard... or if you are playing golf on the course behind our house. :) From now on I will be calling it a fresco, cause it sounds fancy.

If cement counts as plaster, it's totally an a secco fresco. There, rationalized.