6:40 AM
Our alarm went off. I quietly and stiffly got up and went up to breakfast.

7:00 AM
Breakfast at the main house consisted of fresh fruit, pancakes, coffee and juice.

8:00 AM
The concrete arrived. We did another 18 foot section of the main driveway, and a couple sections of walkways. I did mostly hand “floating”, edging and a little framing reinforcement around some steps.

11:30 AM
We broke for quiet time of reflecting on our verse for the day, 1 Cor. 3:11, “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” I drew a diagram to help me process these thoughts.

12:30 PM
I headed up to the house for lunch. It was spaghetti, Costa Rican style. It was good! Then I checked my email and am heading out to work again.

5:00 PM
We end our afternoon work to clean up for dinner.

6:00 PM
We leave in 2 mini-vans for a Brazilian restaurant that serves meat carved off of skewers! We arrived by 7 PM. The food was delicious! We then shopped at a nearby supermarket, and I had a Costa Rican, Choco-Bigger ice cream bar. I bought Britt coffee beans and Vanilla to take home. We had a great time of laughing and talking while traveling in the vans both to the restaurant and back.

9:49 PM
Bedtime. We get up earlier than normal tomorrow because the concrete is coming at 7 AM!.

POSTSCRIPT
One of the joys of this week are the campus dogs! Mandy is Brian and Stephanie’s dog, a mix of Irish Setter and Golden Retriever… a great mix! She has a sister here named Sydney, then there is also Donald and Erika’s Golden Retriever, Clifford, and the Edward’s dog, Puppy… and a black and white mix named Cassie. Here is Mandy enjoying a short siesta during one of the hotter days! Ah, what a life as a missionary dog!