Our Guamazing Adventure

We had a great Guam weekend, especially with the squadron having Monday off. Friday night we had some friends over for Rockband and pizza. There is a saying in Guam, "TIG" that I think has never been more appropriate than Friday. TIG stands for This is Guam, and sort of encompasses all of the random "stuff" that goes on here. Friday night we decided to order pizza from "Boston Pizza Co." that is supposed to have some of the best pizza on the island. I called, was transferred from one non-English speaker to another, and after 10 minutes thought I'd placed an order. The conversation went something like this:

BP: Hello?

Me: Uh, hello, is this Boston Pizza?

BP: Hold on.
Insert bad elevator music here

BP: Hello?

Me: Uh, hi, is this Boston Pizza.

BP: Uh.

Me: Great, I'd like to order a large pizza for pick up.

BP: Yeah yeah yeah

Me: We'd like a large 1/2 supreme, 1/2 pepperoni.

BP: We don't have chicken.


Me: Right, ok, I don't want chicken. Just 1/2 supreme, 1/2 pepperoni.

BP: We don't have chicken.


Me: Got it. Okay, how about just pepperoni?

BP: Half italian?


Me: Uh, sure. Are you located in Yigo?

BP: Yeah yeah yeah


Me: In the Yigo Shopping Center?

BP: Yeah yeah yeah.


Me: How long? BP: 15 to forty

Me: Great, thank you do you need my name? And how much do I owe you?

BP - hangs up.


Consequently, not being exactly sure what we ordered and how much I owed them, I headed to the Boston Pizza in the Yigo Shopping Center only to find that they have been closed down for quite some time now. Not sure where my pizza was, I went next door to the Payless Supermarket and bought frozen ones. TIG!!!

Saturday we spent at our friend Pat and Nate's pool hanging out with them. Saturday night we went to a squadron event at the Outrigger hotel, where every Saturday night they have an all you can eat/drink buffet. Dangerous for a group of 16 pilots!!!! Of course that was followed up by a night of bad karaoke.

Sunday we went to the Ruby Tuesdays (not bad!!) and went to a squadron bbq at our neighbor's house. Very fun!! Monday really took the cake though. I managed to avoid drowning two different times, and we found the ever elusive rope swing!! We had an absolute blast and the snorkeling on the way over was great. Pat, Billie, Derek, Chris and I all conquered the swing, and only 4 of us left bleeding. I thought I was going to lose my pinkie toe, but turns out it was just a "mere flesh wound." There's a pretty great video Billie filmed of me trying to make it up the coral. The waves were really rough, so I wiped out more than a few times. I'll try to get the video tomorrow from Billie and post it. I will say I'm more than a little grateful we waited to watch Mythbusters: Shark Week until after we got home from snorkeling...


Some pics from the rope swing:




Me pre-near-drowning and pre-coral-attack