into His world: Our Busy Thanksgiving Weekend

I know I'm a little late with this, but I need to get caught up before our trip to Hong Kong next week.

The day after Thanksgiving, Nick & I ran the Turkey Trot 5K. I was so proud of myself for running the whole thing with only a very short 30 sec. walking break. But come to find out, the course was half a mile short, so my balloon was busted! Later that night, we went to the Pleasure Island Dance Festival in Tumon. There were dancers from Guam, Japan, & other parts of the world. We didn't stay all that long, but it was a lot of fun anyway.

Howie on one of the Carabaos on Vacation

Dancers from Guam

More dancers from Guam

Dancers from Japan

Of course it started to rain

Howie watching from above

This same night was the first night of the lighting of the Christmas lanterns.

On Saturday afternoon, we gave Howie a much needed haircut. He did really well & sat still pretty much the whole time. Of course it helped that his favorite movie Madagascar was playing.

Later that day we went to the Japan Autumn Festival. It's basically a celebration of the Japanese culture put on by the Japan Club of Guam. It was really crowded & parking was a mess! But it was still a good time.

We ran into the Morrison & Ramirez families there.

There were Japanese dancers. . .

yummy corn on the cob. . .

fresh (huge!) tuna being cut into sashimi. . .

and a shrine being carried by a bunch of Japanese people.

We only stayed for a couple of hours, then it was off to the Annual Christmas Festival at Skinner Plaza. We saw some beautiful Christmas lights and more island dancing, including fire dancers! Santa was there, too, but we didn't take the time to visit cause there were much more important things to do:

Riding the carabao!!!