This morning we went to Agat early to do laundry. The laundromat is near the town office and the fire station. It also looks out, across the post office parking lot, at Agat Bay. To the left is Gaan Point Park, the secondary landing point for the Americans when they landed to take the island back from the Japanese.

The town is building a very nice evening market center. This is not a line of store fronts. Instead it is an outdoor market similar to a farmer's market back home. There is a line of small buildings that will be permanent market stalls and a long covered area that will be individual tables selling things. At the far end is an outdoor covered stage with a green room in the back. It is a really nice facility.

Wakana walked over to look at it while I stayed with the laundry and my newspaper. After we loaded the dryers I wandered over myself. The sea was calm with only the faintest suggestion of rolling waves. It was pale green up close darkening to dark blue out near the horizon. A bank of clouds hovered over the scene. Out on the water a tourist boat sat either a dive boat or a whale watcher. There were some other boats farther out. As I stood there a rainbow blossomed, a complete arch of color that ran from Orote Point on my right to where the sea disappeared behind Gaan Point.

I could only stand in awe of the sight and wish Wakana were with me.