2003 - Main lodge building construction

2003 rolls along and the construction on the main building continues. We are expecting our first child in our tenth year of marriage. Interior work begins on the cabanas. Jim and Jay move in to the staff quarters building and out of the rancho – still camping but more like in a trailer rather than in a tent. Jim sleeps in the staff quarters and Jay sleeps in a tent in one of the unfinished cabanas so that they both might have an ounce of privacy. I make my last trip down to Panama before the birth of our child and then go back to Houston to do contract work. I find out I have Gestational Diabetes and must watch literally everything that enters my mouth so that I do not grow too big a baby and put it at risk. While work as a contractor was more lucrative it was also much harder. I move into a garage apartment at my in-law’s house as we think that it will be necessary to move out of Jay’s house soon after the baby is born so it is much easier to move pre baby rather than after the baby is born. James III (aka Tres) is born on November 4, 2003. We send a second container full of stuff down to Panama one week after Tres is born. The guys start on all of the infrastructure work to tie the lodge facilities together.