Hey guys, so this post might be a little boring because I am just tell you what I have been up to but I will try to make it interesting!
Friday night Matthew and I had made plans to go to the base theater to watch a movie. But, like plans do all the time: they changed! Quickly too! Matthew came home from work Friday night and was like: "how would you like to go to a party tonight?" And so we had a new plan for the evening. Thus, I went to my first beach party that evening. It was a birthday party for one of the guys in MA division and who Matthew has made friends with since being here. It was a lot of fun and there were many people there that were our age. Some of the guys that came to the party had wives too so I was able to meet a couple new girls my age. But here is the discoveries part of my post: All of the people that I met Friday night are wrapping up there time here on Guam and are leaving anywhere from 1 month to 7 months from now.
My discovery: I could easily make girl friends here but could just as easily have to say goodbye in a few months and find more. That is going to be hard!
So as most of yall know, Matthew and I are not big drinkers. All they had at this party was beer and liquor to drink. And LOTS of meat. They were grilling out on the beach. It was good food but all there was was meat, meat and more meat! Around 9:30 they all decided to go to the local bars. A place they like to call "The Trifecta" because there is one place on the island that has so many bars tat you can just walk between them and no have to drive around. Needless to say Matthew and I decided to head on home around that time.
Besides we had to be up early on Saturday because we were driving up to Anderson AFB for a basewide garage/rummage sale that they were holding. We had to leave the house by 7 to get there when it started at 8. I was a little disappointed with the sale though. There were probably like 20 tables set up. That's all! A base wide sale with only 20 tables! I thought it was going to be a lot bigger! Oh well we did get a few things. Matthew got an under armor gym bag, I got this cool looking paper towel holder and we splurged on a table that is in need of some tender loving care for twenty bucks!
We stayed out for about 5 hours just exploring the northern part of the island. We stopped at the local's hardware store to look around and the outlet centers. I discovered that the Ross on the island is THE PLACE to go for home goods. BUT you have to go when it first opens otherwise there will be so many tourist there that you can't move a cart around! So we are going back there after we get our goods shipped in and figure out what we want/need for the house. I am pretty excited about that....and....Christmas/Birthday ideas for the next 3 years....giftcards to Ross and Home Depot! :)
After all that driving and exploring we needed to eat and relax for a little while. So we headed home and watched a movie/took a nap. Then came the fun part! We went snorkeling. I saw some really awesome stuff that I wish I could get pictures of. We are going to save up to get a good underwater camera because we are going to go snorkeling a lot here. But I saw a bunch of blue starfish and "Finding Nemo" fish! And these crazy sea urchins that look like giant hairy slugs! EWW! Lots of other cool things that I don't know the name for. There were points where the ocean floor would just drop and there would be huge cracks in the floor that went down it seemed like forever because it was so dark down there. Snorkeling is fun but we were only able to do it for about 45 minutes because the waves were so choppy today we were getting tossed around and beaten up by the current. It was quite a workout. So needless to say after all that we were too tired to come home and cook dinner so we just ordered pizza! There is a domino's on base that delivers but they don't have all the cool new stuff just regular old pizzas.
Well that is the story of my weekend. It is now Sunday morning and the plan right now is to clean up house and get these curtains up now that we borrowed a drill. But like I said at the beginning, plans can change very quickly around here. All it takes is an idea to strike us and we are off! :)
Friday night Matthew and I had made plans to go to the base theater to watch a movie. But, like plans do all the time: they changed! Quickly too! Matthew came home from work Friday night and was like: "how would you like to go to a party tonight?" And so we had a new plan for the evening. Thus, I went to my first beach party that evening. It was a birthday party for one of the guys in MA division and who Matthew has made friends with since being here. It was a lot of fun and there were many people there that were our age. Some of the guys that came to the party had wives too so I was able to meet a couple new girls my age. But here is the discoveries part of my post: All of the people that I met Friday night are wrapping up there time here on Guam and are leaving anywhere from 1 month to 7 months from now.
My discovery: I could easily make girl friends here but could just as easily have to say goodbye in a few months and find more. That is going to be hard!
So as most of yall know, Matthew and I are not big drinkers. All they had at this party was beer and liquor to drink. And LOTS of meat. They were grilling out on the beach. It was good food but all there was was meat, meat and more meat! Around 9:30 they all decided to go to the local bars. A place they like to call "The Trifecta" because there is one place on the island that has so many bars tat you can just walk between them and no have to drive around. Needless to say Matthew and I decided to head on home around that time.
Besides we had to be up early on Saturday because we were driving up to Anderson AFB for a basewide garage/rummage sale that they were holding. We had to leave the house by 7 to get there when it started at 8. I was a little disappointed with the sale though. There were probably like 20 tables set up. That's all! A base wide sale with only 20 tables! I thought it was going to be a lot bigger! Oh well we did get a few things. Matthew got an under armor gym bag, I got this cool looking paper towel holder and we splurged on a table that is in need of some tender loving care for twenty bucks!
We stayed out for about 5 hours just exploring the northern part of the island. We stopped at the local's hardware store to look around and the outlet centers. I discovered that the Ross on the island is THE PLACE to go for home goods. BUT you have to go when it first opens otherwise there will be so many tourist there that you can't move a cart around! So we are going back there after we get our goods shipped in and figure out what we want/need for the house. I am pretty excited about that....and....Christmas/Birthday ideas for the next 3 years....giftcards to Ross and Home Depot! :)
After all that driving and exploring we needed to eat and relax for a little while. So we headed home and watched a movie/took a nap. Then came the fun part! We went snorkeling. I saw some really awesome stuff that I wish I could get pictures of. We are going to save up to get a good underwater camera because we are going to go snorkeling a lot here. But I saw a bunch of blue starfish and "Finding Nemo" fish! And these crazy sea urchins that look like giant hairy slugs! EWW! Lots of other cool things that I don't know the name for. There were points where the ocean floor would just drop and there would be huge cracks in the floor that went down it seemed like forever because it was so dark down there. Snorkeling is fun but we were only able to do it for about 45 minutes because the waves were so choppy today we were getting tossed around and beaten up by the current. It was quite a workout. So needless to say after all that we were too tired to come home and cook dinner so we just ordered pizza! There is a domino's on base that delivers but they don't have all the cool new stuff just regular old pizzas.
Well that is the story of my weekend. It is now Sunday morning and the plan right now is to clean up house and get these curtains up now that we borrowed a drill. But like I said at the beginning, plans can change very quickly around here. All it takes is an idea to strike us and we are off! :)
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