As I said, Easter is taken very seriously. Therefore there was no one hundred people at the party. It was a birthday celebration for his daughter and another family member. His daughter is in her teens and the other kid is in her stroller.

It was quite a spread, as island parties tend to be. There was more food than anyone could eat. Even taking the smallest portions no one could have left the food table having tried it all. There was BBQ ribs and chicken, two kinds of lumpia, shrimp kelaguen, cold but spicy, spaghetti, potato salad, papaya cole slaw, and many more. The deserts were all over the board including some of the best watermelon I've had in a long time.

It was a very nice time. I met another friend of theirs who came to the island for two years and has been here 38 years now. This is a very different group from the bunch I knew in Maine who told me all the horror stories about life in Guam.