Welcome to the land of october

hope last month was good for all of you. this month has got even more going on. tomorrow i and katie have to go to my aunts wedding, my other aunt is coming up with her little one so we can see him again. we also find out hopefully what we are having for a baby, as long as it cooperates. that and i wont have to keeping using the it as a designation for the poor little baby. we got our bed a few days ago and it is soooooooooooo comfortable. ok onto the big news. for those of you that are not in the area or have been not listening to any news or reading any of the papers, Tim McGraw is going to be the opening act for the new events arena at the Casino on Dec 2. and we have another update for you this week, sorry its so late but i wasnt at work on wednesday to get it. so here we go. a little of a suprise for us when we read it ourselves. we knew nothing of this, and the rumor mill has proceeded to fail us in this littletidbit of news from the casino, but i digress...enjoy. "Tower and Winter Garden to Open This Week This is a big week for the Oneida Nation and Turning Stone Resort and Casino. On Wednesday, the resort will announce the first musical act to perform at the new 5,000-seat Events Center, and on Thursday(actually friday), the Tower Hotel and Winter Garden will welcom their first guests, Robert McEleney, vice president of hospitality for the resort, said most of the rooms at the Tower will be ready for occupancy this week, with the exception of the top two floors.The 18th floor houses seven luxury suites, and the 19th floor is home to the resort's new members-only restaurant. The lap pool and fitness area on the third floor also will be closed for a couple of weeks to allow proper curing of the floor tiles and final finish work. The Winter Garden also will open to guests Thursday, although the restaurant areas won't be ready for a few weeks, Robert said. Everyone is anxious for these lelments of the expansion to open , he sais, both within the Nation and outside. 'In mid-October, there's a stretch of about eight days where the entire resort is full,' Robert said. 'All the hotel rooms -- the existing hotel, the Tower, and the Lodge -- and the conference center and Evets Center are full, 100 percent capacity. 'We're getting a lot of repeat guests from all around New York, Pennsylvania, and other areas,' he ssaid. 'They cant find anything like what we have here, between the golf and the lodging amenities.' The Tower at Turning Stone The front desk for the Tower at Turning Stone is to the right as you enter the Winter Garden. LAst week, crews were putting the finishing touches on the lobby area, hanging drapes and chandelliers and preparing office space. Carpet installation, wallpapering and furniture setting continued on the upper floors. The standard Tower rooms have either on king-sized bed or two double beds with double pillow-top mattresses and box springs, set against cherry wood-and-faux leather beadboards. High-speed internet access is available at the desk or next to the bed in each room, and each room has a mini-bar and 'smart' lamps that aloow you to plug in your laptop, cellul.ar phone and other electronics without crawling under the desk. The closets are furnished with extra pillows and blankets, an iron and ironing board, and a safe for valuables. Most of the rooms have full-length showers with the same double 360-degree rotating Grohe shower heads found in the Lodge. Furnishings in the rooms are sleek and streamlined, similar to the furnishings in the Lodge. 'We really wanted the rooms to be clean and copntemporary when it came to eh furnishings,' Robert said. 'We didn't want it to look like just another hotel room.' Floors four through 17 each have a corner suite, with a plasma television in the living room and a panaramic view of the upstate NEw York countryside. The Winter Garden The Winter Garden, the new main entry to the resort, will welcome guests Thursday as well. LAst week, crews were installing one of the two massive revolving entry doors, similar to the one at the existing Hotel lobby, and finishing the grading for the semi-circular driveway. Under the port cochiere, the bricked driveway will be heated by a stream coil system, which will empty into a dramatic rock formation in front of the drive in a steam 'fountain' Inside, workers are finishing the grand stairway and the water features, including a 'river under glass' that will flow into an indoor fountain between the twin waterfalls in the center of the Winter Garden. The marble flooring is completed, and most of the trees and plants are in place. Work continues on the restaurant areas of the Winter Garden and will be complete in the next few weks. The new expanded buffet will be on the main floor of the Winter Garden near the waterfalls. A pastry and coffee shop, similar to Opal's, will be on the main floor close to the Smokin' wing of the resort. The new brazillian steakhouse restaurant will be ont he second floor of the Winter Garde. The Events Center Painting and other finishing work continued at the Events Cente4r last week. The marble floor and wall covering for the rotunda, which links the Events Center and the mezzanine of the Winter Garden, have been installed. The Events Center will host its first business meeting and trade show in mid-October, and the fall show of United South and Eastern Tribes will take place there at the end of October. Atunyote Clubhouse The Clubhouse at Atunyote also is scheduled to open this week, jsut as the golf course prepares to host ht Eastern PGA Championship tounrament. Paneling and wainscoating installation continued at a rapid pace last week. Carpet has been laid throughout the building, and tiling in the locker rooms was finishing up last week. The frame for the enclosed porch off the main dining room has been erected and is being finished, and crews are working on landscaping around the veranda, which overlooks the golf course." as you can see they are slowly completing this newest expansion. seems really neat. we are going to go check out the winter gardena nd part of the hotel this afternoon before break. i really cant wait, form what i was able to see yesterday when it was supposed to open it will look awesome. talk to you later joe FYI: Thomas Edison coined the term "hello" and introduced it as a way to answer the phone.