westbaylodge - Office is open!

Well our new office is open for business and doing great. The office faces the street at an angle and is towards the mall. Our front porch is already a very popular place and it seems everyone stops in to say HI when they go by. We are renting the cell phones for $25 per week which includes a lp100 phone card. These phones will work all over the island, calling to the mainland and even to the states and Canada. One very good feature is that if you reserve your phone in advance we can issue you your cell phone# and you can leave it for your friends and family back home to reach you encase of an emergency. We have preprogrammed these phone with local taxi driver and hotels/restaurants phone#'s for your convenience. We also are getting a good selection of bottled wines at prices from $10-$14.
The power is on here today, however the island is still having some trouble. I heard yesterday that the main generator can only operate at 60% until the new bigger one comes in. What RECO (the electric co) is doing is shutting off blocks of power off each day to help the old generator last. They are trying to have a schedule for everyone to stay prepared. We are on the part of the schedule where we get ours shut from 9-1pm. This is OK since it is after breakfast and most people are headed to the beach anyway. They are trying to keep power on as much as possible in West bay/West end for the tourists.It has been really beautiful here for the last 2 weeks. No clouds, blue sky and a slight breeze We have been so busy here that we haven't been to the beach for a few days. We even missed Sunday at the Palapa bar.
Can anyone believe that tomorrow is already the end of Feburary?
Have a great day,
Celeste