Inarajan Pools

Me jumping off the diving board

The other side of the stairs

At the top of the stairs

    Last week we went to Inarajan Pools. They are fresh water pools mixed with saltwater pools at the southern end of Guam. They are a great snorkeling spot and have a ten foot tall diving board. To entertain ourselves we brought some paints and found some coconuts and painted the coconuts. I did not get to snorkel much but my mom and Mrs. Cindy did. They saw an octopus in the water under a rock and he looked really cool. His tentacle was curled up in a swirl and you could see his suction cups. Its was really cool! The pools are pretty deep, so when you jump off the diving board you don't touch the bottom. My mom and I jumped off the diving board, but no one else would do it. Neither Benji, Mrs Cindy, or grandma did it. There were also a broken stair case that you could climb up and get a good view of the pools!  My mom, Benji, and Mrs. Cindy all took a picture up there but I could not get to it. It was a lot of fun going to those pools, and I want to go there again!

By Jackie

Ritidian Point

Ritidian Point

            Last weekend my family and I went to Ritidian Point, a wildlife reserve and beach. It’s a beautiful jungle area with cliffs on one side and a narrow beach on the other. Here’s a website if you want to read more about it http://guam.stripes.com/travel/ritidian-point-gorgeous-slice-tropical-guam. My grandma, Mrs. Cindy, and my older cousin Christopher were visiting from Colorado and Hawaii at the time. They were leaving the next day, so we decided to all go for a day at the beach at Ritidian.

     

 We got there at about 10AM after going to Subway and picking up lunch. When we got there the sky looked dark and within a few minutes it started to rain. Luckily, the rain only lasted for about 20 minutes, so it didn’t really mess with our plans. The waves were really cool because they would splash up against the coral about 100 feet out. My mom, Mrs. Cindy, and Christopher went snorkeling and had a good time. My grandma was reading, and my sister was playing football. I built a sandcastle with many walls, which my dad then used as a cage for a hermit crab. We watched the hermit crab escape through the layers of walls that I had built, only to get to the outside and wander back into the ocean, where it got swept away.

            After watching the crab, I dug a massive hole and buried myself in it.

        

 Unfortunately at the bottom I accidentally crushed a crab, but found another one and captured it. The poor crab was a little confused and unhappy. We tried to put it in my castle, but when we did, it just dug a hole and we didn’t see it again.

After that Jackie, Christopher and I tossed a football for a while. We left at about 1 PM, which is pretty early, because my sister had a dog walking job. But afterward we got to go to Yogurt Land, so we had a good day.

Texas

           For those of you who do not know, my Aunt Barbara was in a car accident and passed away on February 13.  So, we got on a plane and headed to Texas.  We pretty much spent the whole week in Austin and it was good to get back there and see everyone. I got to see a lot of my family including Jimmy, Kelly and Joey. It was a lot of fun going there besides everything that had happened there. The plane ride to Austin was pretty terrible. I never really liked plane rides anyway. But the good thing is that we got TVs on our seats so I was able to watch some movies and TV shows. We went from Guam to Japan to Houston to Austin. We had to go through customs and check our bags again in Houston and when we got to Austin, one of our bags were left in Houston. The bad thing about that was it was my suit case with my clothes in it. We got it the next day, so that was ok.
My Aunt Heather came to visit from Germany too with her younger kids. There are 3 of them and there names are Marcus, Tori and Alex. Tori is the oldest followed by Alex then Marcus. Tori had a birthday the night before she left so we had a celebration for her. We went to the zoo in Austin and it was kind of fun. There was a little train ride there that we thought went around the whole zoo so that could see everything, but instead it just took past some brush and some old Halloween decorations. We named it the lame train :-) My favorite thing that I saw there was a panther. It was really pretty and it reminded me of my old school's mascot. While we were there he was looking at Marcus like he was lunch.

Cousins from Germany

The funeral was very touching and very sad. There was a video played in memory of my Aunt Barbara, and I liked it a lot. We got home safely and this time we went through Honolulu and it was a very beautiful place. I will miss Aunt Barbara a lot and she will be dearly missed by everyone that knew her.

Friends made a great memorial video of Barb.  If you would like to view it, the link is: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200625019458824

Posted by Jackie