I’m up early this morning, at 6 am, to catch up my writing. I hope keeping a record of my experiences will help others decide whether this is the right thing for them. I know that for us it was a leap of faith to come to Costa Rica without meeting any of these folks first. I’m so glad we did.
10 hours of sleep felt really good, and I think I’m pretty close to being adjusted to the time changes and the travel. Breakfast isn’t until 8 am and I am decidedly hungry already. At home I would normally have eaten something already. But here, I am going by scheduled eating times. So far that’s made me more hungry at mealtimes than I am at home, where I tend to satisfy the urge as soon as it appears. I like the way waiting makes the food taste, and now I want to eat just three times a day when we get home.
Ah, breakfast felt great. Cantaloupe and watermelon. Hanging around in the kitchen beforehand, I learned a new way to cut these fruits. You can cut them like I was already cutting kiwi fruit. Cut the ends off, place them on an end and cut the peeling off in strips down the sides. The watermelon is easier to do this with if you also cut it in half first (in a plane parallel to the cuts you made on the end.) Watermelon is an excellent thing to eat before going on a hike (think of this comment as foreshadowing…)
After breakfast, Thomas, one of the interns, asked me if I’d like to get a “before” picture taken, to compare with another one at the end. It should be interesting to see the difference. I expect to lose some weight, particularly water weight, from water my body might still be hoarding to dilute the toxins in me (perhaps from things like that rice and bean burrito we had Friday night 
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