I forgot that re-adjusting to real life and real time was going to be hard too. We got home yesterday around 2p, which is 5a tomorrow Guam time…Mallory slept on and off the whole say home from the airport and the grocery store and then fell asleep during dinner at 5.30p. We woke her up for a bath – I didn’t want her to wake up at 3a if we let her go to sleep that early.
Well, she went down last night without a bottle (now that our traveling is over, weaning her from her nighttime bottle is my …
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.
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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, …
Mike, this post is for you…
You wanted documentation of Mallory being a pill…here she is mid-temper-tantrum, and has tantrumed herself under the chair.
She doesn’t do this very often but something pushes a button sometimes and she turns into a big fat crying mess. I feel bad just letting her roll around and cry but she doesn’t want me to hold her, doesn’t want Rick to hold her, doesn’t want a pacifier, doesn’t want her bear blankie, etc, so I just let her cry and hope she doesn’t hurt herself in the process.
I think this is mostly the result of her being overdue for …
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 …