holy cow! that's quite a change (it looks great)

Thanks Bob -- and everyone. You should see it now, after we've
started to put all the artwork up. The place looked pretty sterile in
that video walk-through without our Sonerai prop mounted over the
check-in window!

:-)

The old lobby was a compromise, at best. It worked, and we had lots
of fun decorating it -- but it was never properly functional for a
hotel. Our new lobby is everything you would expect and want in an
area that can occasionally become quite popular.

I shudder to think what would have happened if we had not made our
deadline of finishing the lobby by U of I graduation. At one point
last Friday we had 70 people in the lobby/meeting room area --
imaagine funneling all of them through our temporary "closet"? (Or
even or old lobby?)

No rest for the wicked, though -- we've spent the last two days
getting the pool up and ready, and we've got at least another day to
go before it's ready to be re-filled. Ah, the "easy life of an
innkeeper" -- someday I want to experience it!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"