Gone Again...

I am back. Following a whirlwind almost three week stay at home for Tommy complete with diving, the new cat and the end of my big work project which honestly usurped every waking hour of last week (and most hours of the week before), I should be back to a more regular posting schedule. As I type, Sylvester has his nose between my hands, trying to figure out what I am doing on the keyboard. He is a very curious cat.

Tom's ship left today for a seven week trip. He is due back mid-December. We had a fun weekend before he left. We went diving again and also visited some tourist spots and new places on Guam. Unfortunately, my new camera decided to take a vacation and turn itself off every time I tried to take a picture... very disappointing! Don't worry though, I will figure out what is wrong with it, and be back in full picture posting force soon.

You know, it is amazing how there seem to be so many more hours in my day when Tommy is gone. It does not make sense, I am not sure where the time goes when he is home, but I do know that it becomes much harder to get online every day, and to do a lot of little things I am in the habit of doing when he is gone.

Anyway, I will be traveling to Alameda, CA next week for an After Action Report writing conference following TopOff4. Sounds exiting, doesn't it? Well, it is exciting to me because it means that TopOff is over!!! Hurray!

That is all for now, I will be back soon. I should send some more pictures of Sylvester. He actually carries his toy around the house lobbying to be played with.

Diving and Waterfalls

First, my apologies for not keeping up more with the blog this past week. Tom and I spent every evening last week at dive classes from 6pm until around 9:30 or so. It kept us busy, but we are now officially certified open water divers. We had our four open water dives in class on Friday and Sunday. It was amazing! I did not take my camera because we were learning skills, but we are diving next Sunday, and I promise to take pictures.

In other exciting news, we got a cat. His name is Sylvester. He is about a year and a half old, and he is very sweet. He is also very vocal, but hopefully he will stop that once he gets accustomed to his new home. Here is a picture of Tom and Sylvester. As you can see, he is very cuddly in the morning, before we are ready to get up.


In addition to the diving, we also went on a short hike to Tarzan Falls. The trailhead is just up the road from our house. It was a beautiful waterfall, but the trail was very muddy and somewhat steep.



I have more photos of the hike, but this is running really slow right now, so I am going to post these, and come back to it tomorrow.