Guam Catch the Wave

Our annual Guam youth retreat was July 9-10 at what was formerly known as Onward Beach Resort.  (It has a new name now. It's Japanese, and all their literature is in Japanese, so I will just call it Onward.)  

We had the same lessons as Saipan, but new kids and a new environment.  There were two new girls (to me) that joined. They had moved to Guam last year from the Philippines.  They were a fun addition to the group. Everyone else had known me for years.  I shared a room with 8 other girls. (And the crazy thing is...I got more sleep that night than I would the next two nights. I whoppin' 5 1/2 hours!)

The resort has a waterpark attached.  I had been to the water park one time...at least ten plus years ago.  But I also recall having a terrible migraine that day, so I really didn't enjoy it.  In fact, very little looked familiar.  I only remembered one slide, but I think that was because it was on the commercial when I lived in Guam.   They have a lazy river, which I did remember.  (And it was actually better than I remembered, which was even better!)  

Only the islands have a covered pool.  And it was the most crowded pool the entire time! 

Since our stay was a week night, it wasn't super crowded.  After our first session and getting checked in, we had about 2 hours until the water park closed.  I counted less than 15 people other than our group of 13.  We only waited on our people for slides. It was awesome!

We ate lots of food and even had a birthday! (I finally got my SPAM fried rice!)

There was a game room open all night long, so late night ping pong and foosball was a must. 

And that was followed by even later night karaoke. (I am so sorry to those in the rooms above and below ours.  Hopefully they were empty!)  Thankfully, I am in control of my blog and don't have to post the video of me doing a Whitney Houston song in a moomoo.   

 But I promise, we had some great Bible studies as well! 

And I can't forget to mention the full moon and firetrucks. (We were afraid the firetruck came because of the birthday candles.)

It was a really special event.  Three of the girls had been sent to live with relatives 7ish years ago. I hadn't seen them since they were very small.  Now they are lovely young ladies and a part of the youth group.  That was a fun reunion!  I love my Guam teens and young adults.