Monday, March 23, 2009

Homecoming??? Part 5- Last day in Guam, 1st day in Hawaii & a note for Bri.

When I last left off our plane was broken and we were stuck in Guam for a second night and told to check with the terminal at 6am the next morning for a status update. What I didn't tell you was that in order for our plane to be fixed they had to order a part from California. Now I tried to remain as calm as possible but all I kept thinking to myself was How in the hell are they gonna get a part here from California by tomorrow? It's not like we were someplace close like Arizona, we were in Guam. Even still, when we left the terminal that afternoon Charlie and I were okay.

Sierra on the other hand was balling her eyes out.


When we called the next morning they told us that rollcall for our flight would be at 9:25pm. So we did what anyone in our position would do and made the most of our day.

Charlie and Sierra got to see a few critters up close and personal courtesy of Moses & Kim's front yard.


Then we took the girls to a waterpark that one of the wives told us about (Thanks Christine!!) and had a great time. Charlie and Sierra went down a few waterslides with Daddy and I took Sierra on the lazy river. But mostly we just hung out as a family and had a good time. We figured if our pre-vacation was gonna be in Guam we may as well enjoy it.



After we left the waterpark we had lunch at the beach.



We even saw a chicken and her little chicks.


After a good nap and a great dinner (thanks Moses) we were ready to head back to the terminal.
Sierra and Charlie got to see one last critter before we left Moses & Kim's place.

We made it back to the terminal and finally boarded our plane at around 11pm Monday night.

The beautiful thing though about traveling across the ocean is that you also travel across time zones. So we went to sleep on the plane late Monday night in Guam, and woke up on the plane Monday morning in Hawaii.
We didn't waste any time- We immediately took a cab to our hotel and by 10:30am we were on the beach. We spent the whole day there until the girls we exhausted and and had to take their naps. It's ~4pm right now. We're going to a luau at 5 and tomorrow we catch our flight at 3p.

Here are our pictures from today!


The View from our hotel room.

My favorite people in the world walking to the beach.

The girls.

Hot Mama.

Oh and here's a special note for Bri regarding Charlie's hair. You know I wouldn't do my girls like that! My intention was to braid all of Charlie's hair at once. When I ran out of time I put the unbraided portion in a ponytail fully expecting to go back to it. But once we started going through all the drama with our flights I was more worried about keeping the girls in a good mood than anything else. So when I asked her if she wanted me to finish her hair -and believe me I asked her many, many times- and she said, "No", I figured I'd let her be happy rather than force her to sit and get her hair done. :)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah...your in Hawaii....good for you guys....Now I bet your happy you have paid tickets for the remainder of your journey to the states. It almost over....Love all the pics from Guam...I think there are more critters there than in Oki....lol.

Angie

Brianna said...

AWWW. lol...i am glad you haven't gone crazy on me Nik! good thing charlie is beautiful no matter what!

well you are at least on American soil now so i am relieved about that and super excited. you could not have made up this experience if you tried...it's a good thing you have a blog!!

Anonymous said...

Aloha,Hallelujah and thank you God!!! We can not wait to see you!!
Now we can all relax and let the vacation begin. Joyaspa here we come!!

Anonymous said...

Just come home, we miss all of you.

Love Mon and Dad

Dana said...

Ok - I am glad that I am not the only one who was questioning the styling choices that Charlie was rocking, but agreed she did look beautiful regardless. I was hoping it was some type of Okinawa fashion forward thing that I would see here in the next couple years (hehe).

So glad you are almost home. I cannot wait to see you and squeeze the mess out of you.

BTW - Your stomach is looking mighty fine!! Good job!!

Luvs

Anonymous said...

I had been wondering about Charlie's hair situation too, but figured it was just as you said. You started it, and never got a chance to finish it. Been there, done that. And I'm with Dana, the abs are TIGHT!!! You have inspired me. My ab muscles will remember being that way, once i get started. Hopefully, it won't take too long. Keep up the good work, cuz.
Love you and give Uncle Charles and Auntie Lois and big hug and kiss from me and Kazuri.

Ahki

Dana said...

Ok - I am just going to put it out there... Where are you!?!?! You get us all the way to Hawaii, then nothing. Are you in AZ, NV, CA? Details girl... details.

Just wanted to let you know there are a lot of anxious folks that want to see you. Hurry up =)