I can't thank everyone enough for the kind words.
At the moment, the plumbers are digging under the deck to fix one of their faux pas. If you look back at the pics with my girls, you can see 2 dark gray "returns" in the beach entry. Well, when we started the pump, we found out that the bubbler, that is supposed to be in the center of the beach entry, is actually the one on the left near the wall and the one on the right in the pic (center of beach entry) is a regular return. AAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHH! I'm sorry, just venting a bit! Probably something that happens occasionally, but would have been avoided easily with proper QC at steel/plumbing phase.
Any advice, thoughts, comments on my recourse would be appreciated.
EDIT: Comments like "Nuke 'em Dave" or "hold their kids for ransom" are very welcome!