Birthday on a Tuesday

So this year my birthday fell on a Tuesday. Matthew, of course, had to work so I stayed home during the day. I basically did absolutely nothing all day but read and eat and watch tv. Later on though we had plans to go out to dinner to celebrate my turning a quarter century old!

Well, of course Guam is a tourist place to go for the Asian countries that it is closest to. Needless to say any time that you go somewhere that is in the tourist area there will be a lot of Asian people hanging out too. I found a dinner and show type of attraction that we decided to check out for dinner. It had a buffet dinner and about an hour and a half show of all the traditional dances of Micronesia (the small island in the Pacific). The dinner was made up of traditional Chamarro BBQ foods and mostly Chinese/Japanese foods.

The show portion of the dinner was pretty cool. We saw A LOT of different costume changes and dances. Those guys and girls did a really good job keeping us entertained. We were not allowed to take photos of the show....but I snapped a few anyways! :)

After the dinner Matthew took me to the Cold Stone Ice Cream shop on the island for dessert. It was a pretty good birthday overall and now we are looking forward to this weekend and the marriage retreat that we are going on.

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