Tiki Tan Day 4

It is now Sunday and the painting continues....not exactly where we expected to be the day before we are scheduled to reopen. Thankfully the Stroupes have offered to help again today, and Tiki Todd is still hanging in there and helping every day. Everyone is starting to get tired of painting.

Yesterday we put Zach and Nick on the task of painting all the doors dark brown and as everything that didn't really go as planned. They painted for 3 hours and were only able to really get a couple of doors done. They were trying really hard just for some reason the doors did not want to cover with paint, they kept streaking and I think the boys were getting frustrated. So they politely commented that the next day they would like to paint some big areas like walls. Their wish was granted...we had them paint the two biggest walls in the front of the salon, little did they know those walls were going to take three coats of paint. Not sure which was worse, the doors that wouldn't paint or the three coats of yellow..haha.



"Nick do you think I have enough paint on this wall yet?"



"Zach I don't know....can you tell where I have painted? I am lost in all this yellow."

"Not sure what was wrong with the boys painting these doors or why JT couldnt get the sprayer to work....things seem to be going just fine for me."

Well after Saturday night and the unsuccessful door painting Mike and Jeremy decided to give the sprayer another try. After all we only needed to paint 11 doors. Between the two of them and some helpful advice from the hardware store right across the street, they were able to get the sprayer working good enough to do the doors. Mike ended up spending the entire day spraying doors and his shoes.

After getting a couple of the rooms painted Camie and I decided to start trying to get the beds clean, again we are supposed to reopen tomorrow so guess we better have a couple of beds ready.

"Come on Camie, you can do it, just lay in here and you can see all the filth!"




"Camie I think we are supposed to be cleaning, not taking a rest. I know we are all tired and sick of painting and cleaning, but really we still have a lot of work left to do."

So at the end of day 4 we had almost half of the salon painted, doors done and three rooms with beds cleaned and ready to be used. Guess that will have to work for the reopening. Stay tuned for more Tanning Salon fun.......