Adventures in Guam

The week before Christmas we decided to plan our first big trip since arriving in Japan.  We decided on Guam since we really just wanted warm weather where we could swim in the ocean and pool....or in my case mostly relax by both.  :)  The flight to Guam was about 3 hours each way so the trip was not bad at all.  We flew into Guam on a Monday afternoon and our rental car company picked us up at the airport.  It was a little rainy on arrival but it stopped for just long enough for us to check out the hotel and surroundings on the first night before dark.  We had four full days in Guam and the weather turned out to be great.  We would get a quick shower now and then but you pretty much stayed outside since there was never any thunder or lightning.  We were so happy at the resort we stayed at that we didn't have much reason to leave.  We went to Outback and Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and ordered food in a couple nights for dinner.  Our big night out was doing a sunset BBQ on the beach that our hotel put on.  We really enjoyed the show and atmosphere despite me and the boys not eating much of the grill your own meat.  Lincoln always tends to prefer the pool while Hayden enjoyed the ocean and had his first experience snorkeling with Eric.  I gave Eric a Go Pro camera early for Christmas so they had fun taking videos of the underwater creatures they saw....and of themselves on the big water slide our hotel had.  The hotel provided breakfast daily and we ate at the pool bar for lunch most days.  Another great part of our trip was they upgraded our room on arrival so we had a Junior Suite which actually had a bigger living area than our house in Japan!  It also had a large outdoor terrace Eric and I enjoyed relaxing on when the boys needed a rest in the afternoon.  Our flight back to Japan was early Christmas Eve morning.  We got into to Japan 9:30am local time and had a driver hired to get us back to base so the boys napped most of the way back.  Here are lots of pics and some videos from our trip....

The hotel entrance.  They had Christmas decorations everywhere and played Christmas music in the halls.

View from hotel balcony and video below

Hayden's first swim in the Pacific Ocean

The ocean floor was a little rough.  We had swim shoes but Lincoln was still a little hesitant.

Me and the boys!  The water was pretty warm and you could walk out really far without it being too deep.

The boys coming in from a swim

Loved the lights on the palm trees at night

Breakfast room at the hotel had beautiful views

A rainbow on our first full day

I love the beach!

Hayden the snorkeler

The boys playing together in the sand.

While we watched from the hammock

Lincoln fell asleep like this one afternoon.  The big boys took lots of silly photos.

Beer thirty on the terrace while the boys nap

Beautiful sunset

Me and E on the overlook near the hotel.  It was windy!

My boys and the beach

There was a short beach hike a little ways down from our hotel

The boys enjoyed the trek by the water

Family selfie at the end

After the hike we rented one of the cabana's at the hotel.

Hayden napped while Lincoln played in the sand for almost an hour

In the zone

The pool was a little chilly for me but I enjoyed watching the boys play with daddy

Showing off for mommy.  :)

And back to the ocean

Lunch at the hotel pool bar and then back to the slide....see video below.

Sunset BBQ

That is a lot of meat!

We all enjoyed the fire show

Handsome boys

Family photo

Last day so we rented the cabana one more time to relax

And nap

While the big boys enjoyed a couple hours of snorkeling

Flying back into Japan on Christmas Eve.  We could see Mt. Fuji in the distance.