Let Island Life Begin

Let's hope our flight and first couple days on the Island of Guam are not any indication of how our three years here will be. I was terribly sick the whole flight over and had to go to the hospital for an IV upon landing. The next day Brent got what I had and neither of us could hardly move let alone care for the girls. Luckily some wonderful people helped us get to our hotel and got us some food. We will forever be thankful for their generosity. By day three we were both doing much better and began to eat solid foods again.
We have been house hunting and did find a home on base. We move in on Tuesday the 7th at which point we will receive all of our household goods that have been shipped over. Yeah!
We have been to two small beaches. There are very few waves because there is a reef that surrounds most of the island so the waves break farther out. Morgan likes that because big waves scare her. It has been really windy and we've gone in the evening so haven't really swam yet but it is a very comfortable temp and pretty clear. We hope to venture out more tomorrow.
We had our first hard rain today. It came on pretty strong and Morgan looked at me and said, "Mom, who is taking a shower?" It was loud against the house but only lasted 15 min or so. This afternoon, Brent went to get something from the car and saw a crab crossing the street. You know you live on an island when...Also about the snakes. The rumors seem to maybe be true. There are snake traps set up about every 15 ft. along the cyclone fences of the base that back up to a lot of trees. There is a live mouse inside a cage inside of the trap. We have already seen several snakes stuck in the traps so I guess it works and hopefully that keeps them out of our neighborhood. We'll have to get a picture of those.
Other than that, the weather has been pretty good so far. Warm and humid but nothing like Mississippi. Maybe we were prepared for this. The base is great. It has everything we need. We'll post more on the house once we're in and more on the island once we've begun exploring. But just wanted to give an update.


We don't have new cell numbers yet but hopefully soon. Email is the best way to reach us for now. Sorry I haven't posted in three months. I should be better now. I did post 10 new posts today, Enjoy!