Casino Night

For our own little going away party we decided to host Casino Night. We had craps, blackjack, texas hold 'em and roulette. A different set of neighbors from the christmas tree thing helped us out a lot, and really helped make it that much better. It was a huge hit.

Everyone bought in and received a rack of chips then got to play whichever game they wanted and bet as much as they wanted. At the end of the night we held an auction (using the chips they won or lost depending on who it was) for prizes. We had some pretty good prizes too, dive gift certificates, dinner and movie gift certificates and even more great stuff. One person was far and away the winner with over 70,000 in chips. He actually won it all in the last hour, betting upwards of 5000 a hand on blackjack.

We don't have any action pictures, I was too busy dealing blackjack, but here are a few set up shots.

The Thousand Dollar Chili Cheese Dog

Last Monday Christine wanted to venture out to a local hot dog emporium called Nacho Usual Dog House (actual name) so she could have a Chili Cheese Dog for dinner for the 3rd day in a row (I don't know why either, but hey I made her move to Guam its the least I can do right?). We got in the truck (which had been for sale for a few weeks now) and headed out into town. Not fifteen minutes away from home we hear the pop, flap flap flap of a flat tire. I pull over and see something stuck in the tire, it looks a little like a piece to a tire iron, not the actual angled tire iron, but an extension piece for the jack. I begin to change the tire and it was actually going really easily. All the lug nuts were off, the truck was jacked up no problem. Then I couldn't get the tire off the truck.

It was stuck. I kept double checking for a missing lug nut or screw I might have missed but nothing. After about 30 minutes of trying to get it off the truck I called a friend to come and help. While waiting for him to arrive a nice local couple stopped and offered us some assistance. Using a baseball bat, the spare tire, pretty much everything we had between us, we still could not get the tire off. He tried to help for about 20 minutes before he left. Then my friend showed up and he couldn't get it to budge either. He actually crawled underneath the truck and kicked from the inside out. He also put a second jack under the truck just in case the first one moved from the kicking of the wheel. That didn't seem to work either. So we were about to give up and call a two truck when he leaned on it and it moved. The wheel then came off and we put the spare on.

Once the wheel is of though we can see what actually happened. The tire iron thing actually went through the wheel and the rim, came out then went back through the wheel and the sidewall. Great so the rim is pretty shot now along with the tire.



Fast forward 12 hours and someone stops by the house cash in hand to buy the truck, of course now that the wheel and tire needs to be replaced he wants to haggle. Well it came down to lowering the price and he fixes it or he pays asking price and I fix it. He opted for the former and the deal was done. We now, for the first time in probably the last 12 years of our lives do not own a car. Its oddly freeing in a way, but we still miss the truck.

And to top it all off, the Chili Cheese Dog was horrible. Christine says: "The chili had beans, barf!".

And we didn't even get a picture of the most expensive, least appetizing chili cheese dog either.

One Year Anniversary

For our one year anniversary, we went to a huge almost all meat buffet out in town. One of the few places with Prime rib.

After, we went to the Two Lovers Point, which is basically a cliff on the outskirts of the main drag, where the local romeo and juliet story was to have occurred. They actually did a really nice job of making it more than just a cliff with a little observation deck and lookout point.

As you can see the tourists like to purchase luggage tags and hang them from the fence on the observation deck. The little gift shop actually sells them for that purpose.

Here are a few unique ones we found:

Christmas Witches

Our neighbor invited us to a Christmas Tree burning party down on one of the beaches. Everyone saves their Christmas tree and after they are all good and dry they put them on the beach and light them on fire.

They also have quite the spread, to include an entire pig roasted in a hole in the ground (I'll spare you the picture since my last roasted pig picture didn't garner too many rave reviews).

The first hour or so we were just hanging out, looking at a large pile of old trees, and checking out the stars. We were about 100 yards away from the nearest house so there were no lights, most people had flashlights to find a spot to sit on the beach.

Then someone with a ten foot long stick (complete with kerosene soaked rag on top) and a Christmas light helmet came running from the woods. He did a little dance on the beach then ran to our left away from the trees. We then saw a huge ball of fire light up as two people dragged either a huge ball of clothes or another tree towards the pile of trees. Once they hit the pile it lit up like the for 4th of July. I was about 50 feet away and it felt like I was inches away, it was that hot. Now all those people with flashlights, they got put away as it was as bright as high noon in the surrounding area.

The actual fire only lasted a few minutes as the trees were so dry and I think were outweighed by the amount of kerosene on them.

Here are some nice fire pics, taken by Christine.

Hook, Line, Sunk

A week or so ago we went to our local Long John Silvers / Taco Bell. When we ordered Christine got her usual as did I, shrimp for her and fish for me. We were then alerted to the fact that they had run out of fish and shrimp. I double checked to make sure we were at the right place and yep, the fish store was out of fish. No problem, I'll just order a taco, oh wait they were out of the tortilla's for tacos too. We ended up getting whatever they had, which happened to be about fifth on our list but at least we got some food. Only on Guam.