Grandpa visits Saipan

Grandpa is here in Saipan for a few weeks.
Coming from cold, cold Wisconsin, the Saipan weather has been a welcoming treat. So to really get the winter cold out of his bones, we spent the day at the beach. The weather was perfect with a warm breeze and sunny skies.
Sera Ann with Grandpa...

Grandpa visits Saipan

Tayah with Grandpa...
Tayah, Max and their friend Shea playing on the beach at Sugar Dock.
Tayah, Max and Sera Ann with their friends Shea and Connell...
This was absolutely histerical...Nate was digging a huge hole in the sand with the kids when he found and pulled out a rubber snake - we just couldn't believe it!
Of all the places to be digging, and of all the people who could find it - it was Nate the Snake guy who found this lost rubber snake two feet under sand on the beach in Saipan!
See, even on Sunday he is doing his job! Too funny!

Grandpa visits Saipan

Max holding up one of his SANDballs - he feels very deprived that he has never been able to make a SNOWball...
once again, Sera Ann is off to the water...
Grandpa with Max - just hanging out...
the boys...

Boogie Boarding!

We spent the last day of the kids Holiday Break (3 1/2 weeks of break!) at Sugar Dock Beach. The waves had been great for boogie boarding the weekend before and the kids had had so much fun, that we were back again this weekend. The waves weren't quite as good as the week before...but the kids made the best of it and had a blast.
When not in the water, the spent their time digging sand holes and collecting flowers, seaweed and coconuts.
The day before Sugar Dock, Nate and I put the kids in Kids Club at PIC and we spent some time taking photos of interesting things on Saipan.
This is an old torpedo from WWII...
and here we are at Bonzai Cliff...a historical landmark of WWII.
We had some Korean tourists take this photo - ha!
We felt like we were on vacation!

Boogie Boarding!

Sera Ann studying the water for the perfect wave...
heading out...

"But mom, I can't go home now! Just look at those waves!"

Boogie Boarding!

Sandy, smiling faces...

even Strider has the sandy, smiling face...

Boogie Boarding!

The three head out to deeper water in search of any little wave...
Tayah's friend Megan joins in the fun

Happy New Year!

First day of 2009 - and we are off to a good start!
It is a new year that hopefully will be full of new beginnings...
we are wishing you all a healthy, happy and adventurous 2009