Category: travel

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.
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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 …

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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 …

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Started 7a Monday January 21 Guam time; posted at 9a Monday.
We went on a site-seeing adventure yesterday. We headed to the other side of the island to find Talofofo Falls and Yokoi Cave.
On our way to the falls and the cave, we drove through the old Navy base where my folks lived after they moved from Dededo. The naval air station was closed by Bill Clinton in 1997 and the property was turned over to the Government of Guam. The old Officer’s Club and adjoining buildings are occupied by the Police, and the housing is now occupied by civilians. …

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Posted Sunday January 20 at 6am Guam time

Here is our little pool baby. You can just barely make out her strap marks on her back. Thank goodness she was lathered up in 50 SPF!

Yesterday & last night we got fairly normal sleep out of Mallory. She took two brief naps and she went down for bed around 8.30p. The best part is that she didn’t wake until 4.30a this morning. I know it’s early but 9p-4.30a is about what I get at home so I was happy. The only hard part is that we …

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