Day 10 - Round 1 Complete

As mentioned in yesterday's post, breakfast this morning was served at 7:15am to accommodate those guests having to leave on the 8:30am bus.  A few members of the group had already left after 7 days of cleansing and 6 of the guests, including Tammy and I, were staying over the 4-day break to participate in the next program, so that left 20 guests, give or take, who were leaving this morning.

The 'bus' really only took a handful of guests away to the airport (Maroochydore?); a smaller group of guests  had separate transport arranged for a little later in the morning, heading for the Brisbane airport.  Perhaps somewhere around a third of the guests lived within 2 hours drive of LVS and several had brought their cars, heading home at various times during the morning.  As the Canadians in the group, we had traveled the furthest to get here by about 15,000km (two or three of the other guests were from Tasmania!).

The route shown would cover over 1/2 the globe if stretched out!  Thankfully, our travels were a lot more direct!

The pink "A" locates Living Valley Springs on the map of Australia!

"A" marks LVS relative to the major cities
of Sidney and Brisbane

Right around 12:00pm, we were told that we could move our things into our room for the break and 2nd 10 day program.  It's a much more spacious room with a nice deck just outside.  Though a bit farther from the main centre, we'll certainly enjoy the extra space and quieter location.

Room 1

Looking from the green chair towards the bathroom door and the deck

The deck, of course!

After lunch we visited with a few of the guests and staff until we'd waited long enough to try a steam bath.  We got into the steam room around 4pm and had a 10 minute steam session followed by a 1 minute cool-off shower; then, since Tammy was actually still able to move her legs decently and to stand (mostly) on her own, we went back in for another 7 minutes and then cooled off again.  

Tammy didn't lose nearly as much function as she has in the past either with saunas or hot baths!  Getting Tammy to sweat regularly will be an important part of the detoxing, hopefully for the rest of our time here!  We'll try another one earlier in the day tomorrow and if Tammy's recovery is as good as it was tonight, we may just try another in the evening!  Of course, we want to be very careful not to push too much...

We rested on the sun deck for about 15 minutes then got dressed, had a cleansing tea at the main centre then headed down to the gym for 5 minutes on the Cellerciser and 10 minutes on the Chi massager. 

During the break various staff will be in to look after meals for the 6 of us guests who are spending the break here.  Gavin, the resident Cellerciser expert and also a therapist, made us an excellent pumpkin soup!

Of note, the front office has arranged a day-trip for us to the Australia Zoo, which was established by Steve Irwin, the famed Crocodile Hunter.  That's supposed to take place this Friday!

Also of note, we've been blessed to have an appointment arranged to see Eric Davis, the biological dentist in Brisbane who's worked with Gary on a number of guests over the years.  We sent ahead some scanned x-rays from 2004, 2005 and 2007 as well as a few pics of Tammy's teeth.  Gary wanted us to get an opinion from someone like Eric as to whether Tammy's cross bite may be playing any role whatsoever in her condition... that's slated for the morning of October 29th... logistics to be determined!

Pull 'em all?!?  ... we do live in Goulais...