Thankfulness...

This weekend we were blessed to enjoy Thanksgiving and time off from work. :)
We had an awesome long weekend. It started off with some of us girls (Terry, Sandy, Brit and I) going to Pure Spa to get pedicures. Soooo good. My pedicure turned into a massage as well, which was even better. After an evening of that I came home well rested and ready to begin my next two days off! On Thursday we slept in, went for a run, made food for our Thanksgiving Party at Pastor and Sandy's house. We headed there around 2pm. There were about 20 people, with tons of food, even more laughter from conversations and games. It was both of our 1st Thanksgiving's away from home, but it sure felt like we were with family! Thank God for the new people we have in our lives here who are becoming more and more like family.
We spent the evening playing games and then a small crew of us stayed even later to watch Christmas movies. It was a great Thanksgiving day!
On Friday we spent the day with our good friends David and Nina, working out for free at Gold's Gym, then swimming at Micro Beach, eating out at Tasty's Chinese - which was very tasty!
The evening was spent here at the apartment relaxing and then around 8:30, four of us ladies went dancing. It was so fun. We went to Rose's Karaoke Bar - where you paid $2 to ballroom dance with one of the 5 instructors there. Terry, Tami and Debbie and I went and we all had such a ball! (wow - full of puns tonight)
On Saturday we went Christmas shopping with Terry, Sandy and Joel. We started off at the 4th Annual Artists Christmas Sale. Then we headed down to Garapan for some other stores. It was a great morning spent with some really great people - plus most of the Christmas shopping got done...besides Ken - what do you want brother?
Once we got back, Jake and I packed and drove down to the Palms Resort. We spent the afternoon lounging and swimming in the pools, then had some great drinks at Pau Pau Bar's Happy Hour. After that we took the DFS Tour Bus from our hotel into Garapan to the DFS Galleria where we ate our meal at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was a great meal and a great evening. We relaxed back in our room for the night, slept in this morning, ate an amazing free breakfast and then spent the rest of the morning and afternoon at the pool relaxing again.
All in all it was a very relaxing, resting and enjoyable weekend. We were both blessed to spend time with such quality friends that we have here. We were also blessed to spend some good quality time with just each other - at a very nice hotel! God continues to bless us every day. Even though we don't get paid the most at this school, and have other expenses, He continues to provide us with opportunities to enjoy His creation, our new friendships and relationships and life. He is a great God and we are full of thankfulness to Him.
Hope you all had great Thanksgiving meals and days spent with your family and friends. We thought about you all and miss you all tons!
Love always,
J & J