Looking great! Congrats! I like that tile a lot, and as others have mentioned, everything looks great together now that you've got plaster and water. As far as dreading the landscaping, I'll tell you that in our first Summer with our pool (2007) we didn't even bother; we just enjoyed using the pool, and got to work on the landscaping later. We're still not done; it'll hopefully be reasonably complete sometime in the Fall. At first, we didn't even know what we wanted to do...we just lived with the new pool for a while then started making some decisions. We're going slowly, but enjoying the pool at the same time!
Greg