Final Guam Entry — Part 2

This is the second part of my final entry to chronicle our adventures on Guam.
This adventure was to hear our favorite band on Guam play, MOJO. Two of the members are friends of ours whom we met through the numerous multi-sport events on the island. This first one is Eric.




This is Mark (kinda scary picture, huh??) 🙂

Once we shipped all our stuff last week, we had to move into a hotel, and thanks to Anna’s friends at the SandCastle, we got a very nice room at the Hyatt. Here’s the aerial view of the hotel.

This is the view from our hotel balcony.

While we didn’t have a ton of time to enjoy all the amenities, we did make it down to the pool area a couple times. On the way down, you cross over a large koi pond, where this little girl and her mother were feeding them.

Here are the playful and colorful fish up close.


Then, down to the pool area.

When I arrived down to the pool, I found this stunning woman reading a book next to the pool.

We also found that there was a Japanese film crew doing what looked like a reality couples show in the pool as well. As far as I could tell, two couples would get on the floating raft, wrestle to get someone off, then music would play and they would dance. Then the process would repeat.
Here’s the setup.

First though, they had to get in the water.

Then, the dancing.

Finally, the wrestling.

It was rather entertaining, even if I couldn’t understand a word that was being said.
So, after baking in the sun (as well as bemusedly watching the Japanese TV show) and getting one last swim in the ocean, we headed next door to watch the SandCastle’s Magic on Ice dinner show. As usual it was very entertaining. In fact, our friend Lisa (who’s a dancer in the show), even gave us a little signal to say hi while performing.

This is the lobby of the SandCastle, and if you want to see a Vegas style show on Guam, this is the place to do it (ok, so it’s the only place, but it’s quite good!).

Here are some of our friends from Guam who came to say good-bye. We were fortunate and had several opportunities to say good-bye to friends (although these are the only ones pictured).

These are the really hardy friends that came to say good bye at the airport at 4:00AM!

So, that was the end of our time in Guam. We already miss our wonderful friends and the beautiful island that we were fortunate to call home for a short while. Who knows, perhaps someday we’ll be able to come back and visit. If we’re really blessed, we’ll have a chance to live there again.
So, until the next adventure in Los Angeles (our first stop back on the mainland).
–Jim