Birthday in Guam

 May 24th - Jessicas 17th Birthday

The day began with two fun surprises: 
First - Shannon (one of Jess' good friends) started off the day just right! she set up her first period class with turtles all over!
Second - When Jess got home from school she had a special email from Reed waiting in her inbox.

I took Jess out of school early so that we would have a day to go "play". We didn't want to waste anytime so instead of going to a beach up north we hurried home to change and then went down south. We first went to a look out point in Umatac and took some pictures while waiting for Big John and his Caribao, Betsy, to show up.

Big John walks all around the southern part of the island giving rides to people. We came on a great day! The sun was out and Betsy was hot so Big John let Jess go into the water on Betsy. It was so cute, Betsy's legs couldn't touch the bottom so she just floated there with her little snout sticking out.   

 After the ride went went down the road to the Priest Pools. (Pools of water that ancient priests bathed in) We had seen pictures and it looked beautiful, however when we got there it dawned on us that it was the middle of dry season so all the water in the pools had dried up. We still had fun sticking our feet in the water.

We got done with the pools around 1:30 so we headed home to pick up Rachel and Tanner from school. We cleaned up and then headed to pick up Chad from the airport (he had been at the Far East soccer tournament). We had some time to kill so went to an awesome new ice cream shop down in Agat. He got in around 4:30 and then we just went down the hill into Tumon to have dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. (She is her fathers daughter)

 On our way home we saw a ton of smoke so we went fire chasing and found the fires in the back yard of one of our friends. So we stopped to make sure they were okay. Being the adventurous person she is Jess thought that was one of the best parts of her day. 

 We had a continuation of her birthday on Saturday so Chad could be with us. We went Zorbing and then to the Inarajan pools to have a picnic and go swimming.

 (Zorbing is When you get inside that big ball and then roll down the hill.)

(The girls had a contest trying to catch the fruit snacks in their mouth)

Since we first found out we were moving here Jess has been asking for a pet turtle. We went to Chamorro village on Wednesday and they were selling turtles for a reasonable price but because we're heading back to the states for the summer we had no one to take care of it.  I said we could get one when we got home so a stuffed one would have to do for now.

Jessica and "Zoom"

 We had a great weekend celebrating with Jess and it will for sure be remembered.