Today is a relaxed day on Guam. They take Good Friday seriously here. This is considered the holiest day of the year!
At the crack of dawn, Werner participated in an annual vigil. The locals make a large wooden cross (and some make their own!) and drag is up a mountain in their bare feet! You can see from the photos the height of the mountain.
Then, later on today, Werner and I went to the Guam National Wildlife Park, and visited an absolutely breathtaking jungle/white sand beach area. I even found some baby hermit crabs! Copped a sunburn in less than an hour of exposure, with a 40 SPF suncreen!
Happy Easter everyone. I don't think we will be updating anything until Monday, after the holiday is over!
Oh - watch for more photos on Monday. Tomorrow we are taking a large boat out to lay a wreath in the ocean. This is in celebration of WWI sinking of the Cormorran. Tomorrow is the 90th anniversary of America entering WWI, and it started here in Guam. A German captain would not surrender his ship to the Americans on Guam, so he took it offshore from Guam and sunk it.
So we are headed out early tomorrow for the oceanside ceremony.
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