Today is Christmas and Jake and I want to first wish you all, family and friends, a very Merry Christmas. May you enjoy this time with those around you and remember us as we remember and miss the snow and you all, but will be celebrating our Christmas on a beach. :)
The second thing we want to share is that we were blessed with the greatest Christmas gift this year, Jake's whole family coming out to visit us.
They arrived on Tuesday night around 9. We took them home, walked around our campus, hung out on the beach so they could put their feet in, and got them settled in for the night. Yesterday was filled with a Winchell's coffee/donut walk, beach cruising (we hit up Obyan Beach, Ladder Beach, Lau Lau, Forbidden Lookout, and Tanke Beach) We swam at Obyan together for awhile and it really hit me that we have family here and it's Christmas and we are swimming in the water. WOW! We are truly blessed.
After all our swimming we came home, showered and relaxed for awhile and then drove around Garapan and the rest of Beach Road so they could see all the places we go. We ate dinner, walked around, came back home and played German Uno, while making them stay up until a proper bed-time. Something Jake had to do to me when we first got here too! :)
It was a good night...and today is Christmas. It doesn't even feel like Christmas today, especially because we'll go to church (normal), open presents (normal), except that we plan to open them down on the beach (not normal), pick up a Christmas dinner from the local bakery (not normal), go snorkeling afterwards and then head to PIC for sunset smoothies (another not normal activity for Christmas Day). We are excited though and wish you all a wonderful and blessed Christmas Day today.
We love you all!
Love,
J & J
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