3 weeks on the Island

We arrived at Guam three weeks ago today and have learned a few things about tropical islands:
Wild Life
--Frogs in Guam are poisonous. "Do not lick the frogs" has become a sentence we have used more than once around our house. Mainly it pertains to the dogs but always good to keep the kids on their toes too. Although I think if one of the kids was licking frogs we'd have a bigger issue on our hands.
--Brown Tree Snakes constrict their prey AND strike with fangs that produce poison. Granted the poison will not be fatal but still prying a snake off you as well as simultaneously getting its fangs out of you seems way too complicated in the heat of the moment.
--The Ocean...we laughed when we read to not turn your back to the ocean. As if it's going to sneak up behind you. Turns out that the calm waters around the island are surrounded by the deepest part of the Pacific just past the coral reef. Who's laughing at the Pacific now? Not me.
--We can unpack an entire household in three days. And with utter surprise nothing of importance was broke in the journey across the ocean!

Life on the Island is definitely a slower pace. As someone told us, it's as if the island is 30 years behind the US. We have packed up the Blackberry (not worth the roaming charges); given up on my beloved TiVo working here (the horror! the horror!) and have no idea when People magazines will arrive in the mailbox. On the other hand we find ourselves settled into base housing and in a safe community at Andersen AFB for all of us. The dogs get out of Quarantine soon and we are all ready for school for all three kids. Pictures will be posted soon -- well as soon the replacement battery and charger arrive via us postal (we think we forgot to unplug the original at the hotel and not surprisingly it was not turned into lost and found) we'll share pictures as we take on island living.