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Costa Rica Mission Trip

Costa Rica – Day Nine

February 3, 2007

6:30 AM
I am awake, so I quietly got up, showered, dressed and headed up to the main house to type this blog, while Steve and John Tanner were asleep in our cabin. I guess I am too excited to go back to sleep, plus I have to start preparing to change my internal clock again [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Eight

February 2, 2007

7:30 AM
I wake up to a new day – sun streaming into our hotel room. Out on the balcony the air is already hot and humid – just what you would expect in a tropical climate! Time to go get some breakfast and hang out on the beach and around the pools until we need [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Seven

February 1, 2007

7:00 AM
The alarm went off, but I was already awake. I headed up to breakfast at 7:30 and had coffee, Post Honey Nut cereal (with almonds), fresh papaya, strawberries, and scrambled eggs with cheese..
8:00 AM
Steve Tanner and I went to work on forming up our “circular” concrete form for a branch of the driveway. We [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Six

January 31, 2007

6:00 AM
The alarm rings. We get ready for a quick breakfast before the concrete truck arrives! I also eat “monkey brains” at breakfast!
7:00 AM
We are busy getting forms and areas ready for fresh concrete. I spend the morning floating and edging new concrete driveway and walkway sections.
11:30 AM
We break from work. I jumped in the [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Five

January 30, 2007

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 [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Four

January 29, 2007

7:00 AM
Our schedule varied a bit today. We had a great breakfast, then went right into our time reflecting on the idea of God as our Rock. After that quiet time, we headed back to the shop area and framed up an area to be filled with concrete, as well as a sidewalk area. Later [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Three

January 28, 2007

7:00 AM
Another beautiful day in San Isidro, Costa Rica. Sun is shining and the temperature must be in the 70’s. I just finished breakfast, with lots of good Costa Rican coffee!
The night was a little rough due to the tingling in my hands and forearms from the hard digging yesterday. I have new appreciation and [...]

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Costa Rica – Day Two

January 28, 2007

Today was our first full day of physical labor! I ended up working on a septic drainage pipe trench digging crew with Bob Boerman, Stewart Nelson, Ken Kool (Karen Edwards’ brother) and our foreman, Ken. We figured that we dug a ditch about 80 feet long by one foot wide and 3 feet deep. By [...]

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Costa Rica – Day One

January 26, 2007

We made it to Costa Rica – safe and sound!
3:45AM
The day started at 3:45 AM, getting up and packing the van. Deb drove me to pick up two other guys, Eddie Alexander and Pat Italia. We met the rest of the team at 5:30 AM at the U.S. Airways ticketing area of Terminal 2. After [...]

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Going to Costa Rica

January 13, 2007

I leave for Costa Rica on January 26, 2007 with a group of men from my church. We will be working at and around the Sonlife Multiplication Center near San Jose. You can get more details about it here, and view a short video put together by Brian Claus, one of the staff people at [...]

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