Well, its Monday! The beginning of the unknown. Surprisingly I woke up feeling pretty good. You see Sunday night after I arrived I at first was greeted with my entire suitcase soaked in a perfume I guess you can call it from my cat. She was not happy that I was leaving and told me all about it. I went straight away and washed ALL my clothes. With fresh smelling clothes, I then waited in the lobby for dinner. A hand full of people gathered and we were all chatting about. I noticed myself getting quieter and quieter and at the same time my head began to pound harder and harder. I wasn’t quite sure if it was travel, lack of caffeine (the resort is caffeine free), or hunger. I tried to blow it off and act as normal as I could considering I wasn’t really non discreet! . Dinner began and I scarfed it down but it didn’t help. They then started orientation all the while my head pounding and pounding. I finally excused myself and ran to my room. Within minutes I was in the bathroom expelling everything from my body! (sorry so graphic) Surprisingly after that i felt great! Unfortunately I broke all the blood vessels under my eyes so thank goodness this wasn’t a beauty contest! I quickly went to bed and was hoping for a better Monday.
Monday started at 6am where we had our first class. It was more of a tutorial than class. We learned how to do a class they call “circuit” which turned out to be one of my favorite classes. We then had breakfast followed by our first hike. You see, every Monday and Saturday our hike is called “stop sign” hike. Its called this because you start at one stop sign and 4.3 miles uphill 11% you stop at another stop sign. I have to admit, I was nervous about this. Everyone had talked about this hike like it is torture. Turns out yes, this hike is a touhy, but definitely doable! I did my first stop sign hike in 1 hour 11 min. After my first finish, I decided that every morning, I would face the beast called stop sign.
Stop sign done, and onto our first class. This class I had next was called “mountain”. I was thinking to myself, didn’t I just climb one mountain and now I’m taking a class called mountain?!?!? Any who, I still did it! This I have to say, was one of the hardest classes of all week. I learned that if I don’t pace myself, I was not going to make it to tomorrow. To a lot of people that is not a problem, but to me it is! I am usually an all or nothing type of gal. The positive is if I’m on track or striving for something, I fight and push till I get there, but on the other hand, if I’m in the “nothing” mood, that’s what you get…NOTHING! This was only the first of many times this week where I will have my all or nothing mentality challenged. Balance is what I learned Monday or at least tried to start learning it! Balance in my life, not living black and white, but realizing there is color out there!
Lunch, 1 educational class, 3 more exercise classes, dinner, and a nutritional class and the day was finally done. I went back to my room, called my boys, and hit the hay!
Until tomorrow…

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