Our Visitor

Hafa Adai!!

Things here on Guam are good!! It's been really sunny and not much rain so it's really hot and humid!! "Winter" is almost over and summer is coming FAST!!

Mike will be home in a few weeks. He's been really busy out on the ship. He just got his FITREP, for you non-military, it's kinda like an evaluation but it's an evaluation for promotions. You can get rated 1-5, 5 being the best, Mike just got a 4!! 5 are hard to get, not impossible but hard. Mike had some on record. Anyways, the good FITREP is exciting not just because he's doing good, but because he needs a good score for future billets. He's currently looking into NPS and the better FITREP and a letter from the skipper, will help the board decide whether or not they accept him. I don't think he's going to have a problem!! So wish us luck on that!!

As for me, I'm great!! My school starts in a few weeks. So i'm preparting myself for that. I'm now up to 18lbs down!! I'm so proud of myself. Everyone else is too!! I swim at least twice a day, walk about 3-4 times a week. I'm going to start increasing that once I get a new bladder for the camel back. So things are good. I'm still working on my tan. The workers call me a Chamale. It's what they call the locals that are white/chammorro mix. So in other words, i'm blending in better!!

We are preparing for a visitor. My sister Heidi is coming to visit in a month. We're so excited and she is too!! I'm trying to find all sorts of fun things to do with her!! I do know we'll got snorkeling and i'm trying to nail down a good time to see the sea turtles. I just have to find a time that they come in but it has to be one of those times that it's quiet and not everyone is at the beach.

So we had a new visitor of a different kind. No it wasn't an alien, it was a monitor lizard!! They're all over the island. We see them up on the air strip and if you go hiking in the jungle you'll see them, but they aren't usually in housing!! This one was on my tree out my bedroom window. The cat was watching something so I ran out to see what it was. I thought it was a snake. If you have snakes, you have to call and have them caught. The brown tree snakes cause nothing but problems here!! So, I went out and saw that it was a monitor lizard. I got a few pictures but they aren't super clear, but I'll post them anyways. I forgot to wipe off the lense. It fogged up. If you want to read more about the critters here, check this page out http://www.heptune.com/Guamcrit.html

So overall things are good. I'll try to post Mike's FITREP on here too. I just need to make sure there isn't anything in there that can't be posted!!

Love~Laugh~Wish

Bonnie and Mike