The Weekend Update

Well, it's a hot one... Today is the hottest day we have had yet in D.C., and we are promised that it will cool down next week (here's hoping!). The team is in high spirits after a strong finish yesterday and a night off to celebrate. Today there is a special event on the Mall, so we are restricted to only light construction, and will be working on the interior until this evening when we can power up our generator again.

More pictures of our progress to follow, however here are two to close with:

Hard to believe that just this past March we were pouring our temporary foundations...

...And on Saturday, just 8 months later, here we are sharing a meal at what could only be described as a "unique" Mexican restaurant, while our house was standing on the National Mall. The most surreal dining experience to date...I don't know if it was the excitement of the previous 72 hours, or if it was the mexican soap operas, Bryan Adams music pumping through the juxebox and waitresses in hotpants and high heels (no, we still don't know why they were dressed like that), but everyone was in good spirits. It's hard not to smile after all we have accomplished.

Jody put it best today when she said, in reference to comments made by spectators on the Mall that our house is beautiful, "I tried to be humble, but I had to agree with them that it is."