Sella Bay hike

At the bottom of the blog page is a slide show of  pictures from a hike we did on 2/3/09. We drove to the southern part of the island, parked, put Samuel in his hiking backpack, and hiked down to Sella Bay. The hike took about 45 min. each way, but it was satisfying because the trails were rough. The bay and beach were beautiful. Samuel did great and had fun. 

The bridge pictures are of a 'Spanish Bridge,' built in the 1600's at the site of an ancient Chamorro village. There is no village there now...just the bridge over a creek.

About the pictures, you can speed up the slide show by hitting the + if the pictures are going by too slowly.

Samuel turning pages of a book

Hopefully it's not annoying that I'm posting this just to brag about our little guy. We just thought it was amazing that Samuel knows how to turn the pages of his board book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear..." 

He now loves turning the pages of this book and gets excited when we pull it out to read it with him.

Church Guest Book

Rudi and I got married over five years ago on December 27th. At our wedding we had a guest book for guests to sign, as weddings typically do. After the wedding, friends gathered our belongings from the church (including our wedding guest book). However, along with the wedding guest book, some well-meaning friend accidentally picked up the church's church guest book (it is ivory and gold and says "our church guests" on the front cover). We have had the church guest book for over 5 years. I meant to mail it back to the church (since we didn't live in the same state as the church where we were married) shortly after the wedding. However, we are not good at mailing things, so it never got done. Then, we even moved to the state where we got married and lived 30 minutes away from that church. I carried the church guest book around in the trunk of my car for 3 years while we lived there, hoping to drop it off when I was visiting friends near the church. I was in the area a few times, but never dropped off the guest book. Now we live on Guam and I mailed the guest book to the church today. I hope they didn't miss it too much.