There's no place like... Guam?

Saturday, December 27, 2008

at 11:27 AM Labels: christmas, family, my nephews make me want to have 18 children of my own

It's true. There is no place like Guam. It is pretty much how I left it though. I FINALLY made it back home late Christmas. Christmas was pretty anti climatic really. Woke up on the plane, looked at the screen, realized we'd crossed the international date line, turned on some Christmas music on my ipod and went back to sleep. Christmas dinner consisted of a bag of Hawaiian cookies, a stale dinner role and about 8 diet cokes. Ah, the glamorous life of a Navy wife!! We landed about 7:30p Christmas and I was so excited to see my friends Kate and Julie waiting for me at the airport. I was a little nervous about coming home and being alone, but fortunately I had about 7000 ants anxiously awaiting my arrival in the kitchen. Hats off to whoever stayed at our house and threw trash away despite the "use the phone, internet, tv, just don't throw away anything" note.. ahhh!!! But, it certainly gave me something to do, and I even put on a bad Christmas sweater to scrub the floor. It really was so nice to sleep in a good bed and take a shower without flip flops on!!

Yesterday I spent with my buddy Jolene hitting the after Christmas specials. I was searching for a tree, but the only good one I found was at Macy's - 60% off and still $245. I could fly to Japan, cut one down and bring it back for that price... luckily Julie let me borrow hers. A little counter intuitive to be decorating the tree the day AFTER Christmas, but that's just how this year is going to go. At least our neighbors probably thought I was taking down the lights, so I won't be committed... The tree is up, the lights are on, there are presents waiting to be unwrapped and now I just have to figure out to do with the remaining hours of the day. It's 11:30a. Got some serious time on my hands here!!

Last I heard from Chris they are on their way home... YEAH!!!!! Hoping they'll be here New Year's Eve, and no idea how long they're staying... could be a day, could be four months. Hopefully it's closer to four months :)

I'm way behind on pictures, so here are some from Truesdell family Christmas, my long journey home, and our Guamtastic decorations!

Early Truesdell Christmas

Blaise and our neighbor's MONSTER snowman!

Bree Bree being goofy

Arie got her Santa Buddy (Tanner) ShamWow!

Declan is such a kick!!

We bought mom and dad tickets to the Phantom of the Opera in April

Chris bought Sophie a musical jewelry box from Japan

Mom and dad with Deck

My home for 4 days

My wine buddies - Molly, Emmy, and Cynthia. They all have candy canes (courtesy of the terminal guys) in their mouths. I have the wine opener. Classy.

No trip would be complete without a gift shop t-shirt.

Of course I held a gymnastics class. These were my talented students.

My sweet bed (well, until I moved and the luggage cart rolled away causing me to shatter my tailbone. Okay, maybe it's just bruised, but still. Please note the awesome gymnasium lighting. It was my own Christmas song: 5 screaming babies, 4 calling birds that somehow got in the terminal, 3 security announcements every half hour, 2 flip flops to shower in, and a partridge in a pear tree.