Too much to catch up on?!

So I obviously have not developed and kept a good schedule of blogging about this adventure in Chile. At all.

Our first two weeks in Santiago de Chile, the capital city of the country, home to some 8 million people, sprawled out between two cordilleras - mountain ranges.  It's big.  And noisy and busy and tense.  The Andes are on one side - massive mountains that at first made me think of Denver but then realizing their size and closeness to the city I have to rethink it and say, "No, not another place - just here."  And that is something I have to do a lot.  When I travel, I find myself thinking, "Oh, that looks like California!"  Or some other place I've been to before, comparing and contrasting.  But I have to take time to recognize the here and now and the uniqueness of wherever I find myself in that present moment!

During my first two weeks, we stayed at the Cecy and Enrique's apartment in Las Condes.  A development of five buildings, each 21 or 22 stories tall.  We are on the 15th floor, with decent views and a large balcony.  Cecy is a talented decorator and the home feels live-able but well put together.  So we had her cover everything white (our boys are annihilators of white furniture) and we spend some time redirecting behavior (like stay away from windows and terraces that do not have screens on the 15th floor...and I pray a lot about that and keeping the door of fear closed.)

I lost two pounds though I was pretty bitter about it.  I worked out every day, did my intervals, walked a lot, did the vibroplatform "gym" with my sister in law four days a week, took the stairs once a day, and was hungry for two weeks.  And I lost TWO pounds.

So I kind of went on a food bender the past ten days of holidays within our vacation.

And now I am back in Santiago, and will go back to being hungry, working out, and seeing what to do next!  Grrrrr.  My MIL is suggesting that I go to the doctor here and get a work up of my hormones.  I was having trouble the past several months with them and seemed to be doing much better since going after the issue in prayer.  I am not sure what to do...