Valentines Day and Getting Around the Island

I've been doing just what I said I wasn't going to do.  That is, slacking on my job doing this blog.  I must do better...I can do better.  And since I'm late, today is a 2fer on the blog posting. Anyhow, sooo...lets see what's been happening.  Well Valentines weekend, my husband and I got a chance to go to a marriage retreat at the Mariott which was put on by the Chapel on base.  It was a great time. They discussed the 5 Love Languages.  I had no idea that we had primary love languages.  They also gave us a great idea about doing date nights by having a "date night jar" full of ideas of things that we want to do.  I pretty much ran out a day or two later and picked up a jar.  I plan to decorate it and so I will definitely post that once its complete.  Here's a photo of some of our lovely friends and their spouses at the marriage retreat.

In other news, this past weekend was a holiday weekend and so I am proud to say that I was able to drag my husband out of the house to sightsee a little.  We went visited 3 places: the Plaza de Espana, Latte Stone Park, and Two Lovers Point. Guam has alot of history.  The Plaza de Espana was the Spanish Governor's Palace from 1669 until the invasion of the World War II.  There's a circular house there called the "Chocolate House," which is where the Governor and guests had hot chocolate and tea.

 My kids were totally obssessed with this structure simply because it was called the "Chocolate House."  There's not much too it anymore and yet they just loved it because of its name.

Here's a few more pictures from Plaza de Espana.

We then made our way over to Latte Stone Park which is where were built around 500 AD and are thought to be pillars for elevated houses. There was also a Japanese cave around the corner which my kids were scared to go in.

And lastly, we ventured over to Two Lovers Point.  This place has a legend that a couple whose lovers would not allow them to marry, tied their hair together and jumped to their deaths from this 378 ft. cliff.  This place has some amazing views.