Projects over the last week, Chapter 1

My favorite hole on the Royal Isabela course. This is a KAP photo taken over the tee box. The green is over there at the edge of the cliff.

I've written a couple of times before about this amazing golf course being built on the bluff above the ocean on the other side of Isabela. This Saturday, at the invitation of the owners, Stanley and Charlie, and David, the course architect, about 20 Ola Lola friends are going to play the One and Only Ola Lola Open Golf Outing. (It's the "one and only" because when the course is complete, it will be a private club.) We've been talking about this for a while but the date just got settled last Friday so we've spent a lot of time in the past week preparing for that. All 18 holes aren't finished yet so I think we're only going to play nine holes. But knowing how proud (and rightly so!) Stanley and David are, I suspect there will be tours of the rest of the course.

After golf, we're coming back to Ola Lola's for lechon asada, better known on the mainland as a pig roast. We have the best lechon any of us have ever tasted coming on Saturday.

Saturday is also our farewell to another good friend, Jose. He leaves next week to go to Virginia to get his certification in aircraft mechanics. He is a wonderful mechanic. He can fix anything from an F-15 to our little beer-getter. We wish Jose all the best and sincerely hope he will find a way to bring his new certification back here to work.

You'll hear (well, read) more about the golf and the party after Saturday.