New St. John Kids

Here’s the Dockside Building, the first building you see when you get off the ferry.

The GoToStJohn.com live web cam camera is on the left corner of the second floor. See it?

(Eventually there will be a sign there for the web cam.)

You can barely make out the St. John Spice sign if you look up the ramp, to the right of the bus.

St. John Kids is now located on the second floor also. The two French doors and the two windows are us.

Here are the stairs leading to St. John Spice and St. John Kids.

This is the view from St. John Kids from the second French door.

The Beginning:

This paneling stuff is called “slat-wall”. It comes in 8’ wide by 4’ tall sheets and is very heavy. There are all sorts of hooks and hanging rails (like closet poles) and other gadgets that just hook right in all those metal slats. Ingenious, really. When you want to move some merchandise, you don’t have to build shelves, you just move the little gadgets around.

Normally you don’t see a room covered with the stuff because it’s pretty pricey. People are usually starting with a plastered or sheet-rocked room and just putting the slat-wall where they need it. Since we were starting with bare concrete, we were able to skip the $6000 plastering and just hang the stuff everywhere.

The Bad News is it was supposed to be white finished melamine. In the States, I guess you’d just send it back. Here, we just adjust our plans and hire a painter rather that lose weeks waiting for the right stuff.

This is Ron and James. Thank Heavens we had James for a few days. He was extremely helpful!!!!!!

I’m still kind of scared of all the power tools.