This place is the greatest and is giving us time and space for recreation. And I mean re-creation, because we're decompressing and relaxing and easing up after the pressures of the first two weeks. This morning we met for breakfast, which was porridge, a ginger muffin and french toast. I'm learning to eat just a little bit of each thing because everything's so good and there's so much of it that it's not a good idea to overindulge. We also had good coffee for breakfast, so I had 2 cups.
Lunch was another delicious meal. Afterwards, we went to a Buddhist monastery, which was very interesting and colorful. It was built fairly recently (within the last 20 years as I recall) and was in very good shape. It was painted in all kinds of bright colors – it's of Tibetan origin, which I think is their tradition. When we arrived, we peeked into a room and some ladies beckoned us in. They were pulling on cords that turned prayer wheels, and they motioned for us to join in. There were a few prayer wheels that were not being turned, so we sat down in these little boxes with cushions on the bottom and started pulling on the cords, which turned the prayer wheels. There wasn't a guided tour or anything, so we just walked around and took pictures.
Then we came back to the hotel and Grace and I went shopping. When we got back to the hotel, we went downstairs for drinks and Elizabeth Clark, the executive director of the hotel joined us. She's very interesting and entertaining and we had quite a lively conversation. Dinner was fabulous as usual and I'm not looking forward to tomorrow because we're probably going to have to miss lunch here at the hotel because we'll probably end up having lunch at the church.
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