Sarah & Lisa's Visit

I have to confess, I am a little burnt out on the blogging (my job probably doesn't help) so I'm going to cheat a little on this one and, rather than upload an obnoxious amount of pictures to the blog, I'm just going to give you this link to our Picasa Album. By the way, I should give credit to Sarah for all of the pictures...I had to steal them from her after our beloved camera suffered an unfortunate death shortly after their arrival.

I will say, however, that it was fun to have Sarah & Lisa here. We did all of the typical touristy stuff - Banzai, Suicide, Bird Island, Forbidden, Grotto, Hidden Beach, King Fisher, American Memorial, etc. We did do a couple of things that we didn't do with previous guests though. We got to climb into a scary, dark cave with human skeleton remains. Sarah and Lisa camped out on Managaha one night. And, they were fortunate enough to help me chaperone the Youth/Single Adult "Prance" which, by the way, the youth absolutely love those girls and are trying desperately to get them to move out here.

Thanks for coming Sarah & Lisa. I hope you enjoyed it!

Day 1

Patrick & Natalie flew in at about 3:30 A.M. on Monday, after almost 24 hours of travelling, but that didn't seem to slow them down.

I know I've posted pictures of all of the main Saipan tourist spots about 100 times, but the difference is Patrick and Natalie are in the pictures this time!

On our deck

Wing Beach

Banzai Cliffs

Patrick using his brute strength to hoist Bird Island...& with a smile on his face!

These pictures are classic!

Giddyup!

Patrick having a superhero moment on Suicide Cliff

Pat getting a tat. The chinese symbol for "strong" (I think?).

Steven & Mary's Visit - Saturday

Wing Beach

You would want to jump too if you had our student loans.

Banzai Cliff

Old Japanese Jail

Sunset dinner at 360 - rotating restaurant

Random Loveliness

Top: Managaha (small island off of Saipan), 2nd: Banzai Cliffs (where the Japanese committed suicide during WWII), 3rd: Bird Island, and 4th: the view from our Bungalow!