Rick & I had a fun date night last night while Mallory had a fun night at Auntie Em’s. My old friend Hitch is the coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets and got us tickets to the game.
We had a quick dinner in Greektown and sort of took our time getting to the Joe – I was looking forward to seeing Coach after the game and the time in between was just fluff. Plus I figured Coach wouldn’t know if we got there late anyway. I didn’t even bring my camera because usually the seats are up in the …
Category: Stuff We Do
Giddy Up
Mallory (actually she was still Baby Fred at the time) got this cool rocking horse from Rick’s Aunt Sharon & Uncle Gary at one of our baby showers. They made it for her and it has a blue & yellow “M” on the side – not quite a block M, but what do you expect from those Buckeyes? And I am not convinced that there isn’t a hidden scarlet & grey O on it somewhere…
Anyway, Mallory has sat on it a few times and let me rock her but today she figured out how to make it go on her …
We're back…
We are back to the frozen tundra…and it doesn’t seem as cold as I expected it to be when we returned to Michigan. Mallory was SUPER GREAT on the plane trips today, she slept for 2/3 of the first flight, and about 3/4 of the long 12 hour flight. Rick & I felt like super parents because she was so well-behaved!!
Mallory was SO excited to see Cooper – she was giggling and screeching when he got home from the dogsitter’s, it was so cute. She was exhausted from our long day of travel, even though she slept so much…she even …
Miscellaneous pictures
The view at night from our hotel room.
There it is! The site of my birth :-)
Funny sign at one of the national parks – notice the last bullet point: “Unexploded ammunition, mines, bombs, etc., are extremely dangerous. If sighted, call 911”. All of the parks have this same sign – I didn’t realize what a huge part Guam played in the second World War and that the US saved them from the Japanese. I must read more about it when we get home.
Tackling daddy at the beach…
Mallory having trouble with her new water shoes.
…
Video of the Slide…
Ok, before I sign off – here are two videos for you, a little teaser of all the other video & pictures you’ll get to see once we get home….
The first one is your view going down the slide. The second video you can see Mallory’s face as she & Rick go down the slide. Priceless.
Coming Home
Coming home on the plane from Guam to Osaka, they were showing the movie “No Reservations”, but we couldn’t find the channel that had the audio in English. Turns out that the movie didn’t have the English audio, and they made an announcement that they were very sorry that the movie didn’t have English audio. Then they made the same announcement in Japanese. Um, the Japanese had audio for the movie, why did you have to make an announcement for them???
Sitting in the Osaka airport right now and actually found a wireless network. This airport isn’t like the Tokyo airport …
Revenue Opportunity
I think Rick & I may have a little revenue opportunity on our hands.
At least a couple of times a day, Japanese tourists use broken English to ask if it is OK to take a picture of Mallory. We always oblige and laugh about it. We can’t figure out if it is because of her blond curly hair or because she looks like a sumo wrestler.
Yesterday my dad actually gave a lady his card because it was a cute picture of Mals and me and he wanted her to email it to him. Not sure if she understood his request, …
Catching Up
posted at 6p Thursday January 24, Guam time
As I was reviewing pictures, I realized I missed posting some stuff. Plus, I want a daily list of the stuff we’ve done so here goes (I’ll be able to post as long as Rick keeps Mallory occupied and vice versa).
We went to Two Lovers Point earlier this week (http://www.twoloverspoint.com/). We paid our $3 to get a view of Tumon Bay; there was a souvenir shop and all these buildings. The funniest thing is that in the travel book I have from back when my folks were here way back when shows a …
Warm
Post started at 4.30p Wednesday January 23(?) Guam time.
I forgot to post about how warm the ocean is. It’s like bathwater, warmer than the pools.
Mallory wasn’t so sure about the ocean and it’s somewhat big salty waves. She played in it a little bit, “swimming” back and forth between grandpa and Rick, and then was able to stand up and walk where it was shallower.
She and grandpa went down the slide about five times in a row today. They would get to the bottom and Mals would do the sign for more so my dad would pick her up and …
We found it!
Post written at 8pm Tuesday January 22 Guam time
We found our old house!
Our old address was 56 Y Seng Song, but there is no 56 to be found on Y Seng Song. So my dad stood in the street and tried to remember the old home movies of my mom & Sarah Barden riding motorcycles up and down the street to get a frame of reference. My dad and mom narrowed it down to the blocks they think it was and then we drove up the street real slow. There was only one house that had the door in the …