Fri 18 Jan

We're back! Safe and sound from a wonderful trip. I felt badly that we weren't able to get to church on Sunday. I hadn't anticipated any problem since I assumed that Costa Rica was a heavily Catholic country and Mass would be readily available, if not at the resort, at a nearby and easily accessible town. I was wrong. We would have had to take a taxi to La Cruz, about 45-60 min away at a cost of $80 to get to a Mass at all. Not until we were leaving the resort did we see that there was a public bus that stopped at the resort. Don't know what the timing or cost would have been if we could have used the bus, or even if it ran on Sundays. The concierge that we had asked about getting to Mass never even mentioned it as a possibility, even when we blanched at the thought of paying $80 for a cab. Miss my yummy French toast with lemon curd and flambeed fruit for breakfast. Also the wonderful tropical fruit: papaya, persimmon, etc. Food: 6:55 am 1 c Quaker Oat Squares, 1/2 c soy milk, 101 g blackberries, coffee 12:55 pm 2 fried eggs, Thomas English muffin w/butter, sugar/molasses cookies Exercise: 9:30-10:30 am Body Pump class