Thanks for the compliments Gomboman!
Cappykat, our lumber came from Lowes and I am pretty sure it is southern pine. The work was done by a contractor who is actually a good friend of our family. He did our original deck and then I said. "we need a second one for our hot tub". It was at that point that I could see the lights go off inside his head!! He already had great Ideas for us.
We just had the deck stained yesterday so we have a while before we can put back all the furniture. We are very happy with the whole project. Here is a pic with both decks stained. I will post some more pictures once we move all the furniture back onto both decks.