Mysterious

On Wednesday night we went out with some of Greg's friends from work.  We headed to Chamarro Village which is a local spot where you can pick up cool local gifts and try some local cuisine.  We were shown around by a guy who has lived on the island most of his life.  He took us to get some food and told us his brother worked there.  So we waited knowing it must be good, because the line was forever long.  We finally got up there and he told us to stay together and get whatever we want, there was no limit.  So we got food and at the end we just got to take it and go. We didn't have to pay anything the guys brother took care of all of us!  It was very cool! When we finished we wandered around the village.  We learned about some of the traditional tools the Chamarro's used for different things.  I learned about betel nut, which apparently is something you chew that gives you a natural high and also stains your teeth.  (See the crazy things you can learn if you just ask questions!)

We continued to wander when we saw a sign for tuba, which made me laugh.  Tuba is a drink that locals make.  It is a fermented coconut milk.  What an interesting drink.  We continued walking and found more very cool things and foods.  We will have to go back just so we can try the foods.  Before we left we went to get smoothies.  I got a delicious strawberry colada (strawberry and coconut flavored).

After we were done at the village we went to a little place called the Mermaid Tavern.  We sat and talked with one of the guys Greg works with.  We were not there very long and we paid our bill and got up to leave.  About that time a guy sitting there said "Penn State".  I wasn't sure where that was gonna go, but he had seen it written on my shirt.  So we started talking and I found out he grew up in PA and went to high school in Camp Hill, which is right up the road from where I grew up.  As we talked they pulled up chairs and invited the 3 of us to have a drink with them.  We probably talked for at least a half an hour.  It was really neat.  I have this habit of starting conversations and they turn into really long great conversations.

I want to push ahead for just one minute, because I want to tell you what happened Saturday morning.  We got up early to go to a rummage sale, which was a total flop.  It was near Navy so we decided to go snorkeling at Gab Gab.  It was amazing so many more fish and reef to look at!  We saw some awesome things and watched some people go diving right from the dock.  We were in for about and hour and decided we had better get out we don't want to get too sore or do anything too crazy.  We were washing off when who pulls up right in front of us.  These two guys that we met at the Mermaid Tavern, Bruce and Pete.

They saw us smiled and asked us if we would like to go out on a boat with them.  They needed at least one more person on the boat so they could dive.  It is required that at least one person stays on the boat while the dive is happening.  They took us on a free boat ride! We had a blast!  We jumped off and went swimming while they were diving. We sat around on the boat. Everything about it was great!  We went on 3 different dives so it was cool!  We both got a little too much sun.  So we are still a little sore. 

After our boat adventure they invited us out for dinner at a really cool place called House of Brutus.  I had the burger called the "The King" it was enormous.  I will be eating that another day.  We had a lot of fun with these new friends and all because of a Penn State shirt!  It was so cool the way that God worked that whole thing out so we could see these awesome guys we met a few nights before. 

Now back track with me to Friday.  Friday Greg had off and we spent a lot of our day getting all of our utilities transferred into our names.  We also stopped by the DMV, which was so packed we decided not to wait.  We stopped by the stand outside and got a classic sandwich of Guam...egg, cheese, and spam.

Afterwards we just went home, because it just kept raining.  After sitting around we thought we should do something so we went to Jeff's Pirate Cove.  We explored and ate.  The burger we had there was good, but very small. 

I am not thinking of any other super exciting stories so that is the end of this blog.