Last night was fun. I met Wakana and Akiko, her friend from Japan, in front of the Jamaica Grill in the Chamorro Village. Wednesday nights at the village are a lot of fun. The place becomes a carnival with live music, booths selling eveything from cheap toys, t-shirts, seashells, tuba, used videotapes, and jewelry to machetes dresses, chidren's clothes and carabao rides.

We went to Gordon's booth. Gordon makes jewery from semiprecious stones and bits that he buys. A lot of it is bead work. Wakana bought a nice silver pendant.

We also went to supper at the booth that sells barbequed squid. We all intended to get squid but they were out of bodies and only had legs available. I tried a sample. It was good but too spicy for me. I couldn't identify a flavor that I could call "squid" but it certainly was chewy.

We wandered around the place for a while to let Akiko shop then bought a funnel cake to share. Lastly we went back to Gordon's booth where his wife gave us some betel nut to chew. It was Akiko's first experience with betel nut and the second for Wakana and me. None of us are interested in pursuing the experiment further. I am not interested in acquiring a taste for that stuff. It dries your mouth out so thoroughly that you can't even spit it out. Ugh!

This afternoon after work the three of us will go snorkeling at the Piti Bomb Holes. I've never been out there. These are natural formations, round deep holes in the coral that look like bombs blew up there. In the middle of one of them is the Fisheye. It is a tower built down to the deepest part. Tourists can pay to walk out along a bridge to the tower and then down the stairs to look at the fish in their natural habitat as well as the scuba divers who frequent the area.

Should be fun.