Day 3 - Beach Tour, Hike & a true Island experience!

Today was Awesome! The day began with no showers, hopping into grubby clothes, and our island 4-runner. Mark and I have dreamed of taking our family to some of our favorite places, and today we got to do it! We wanted to take Betty and John to some of the beaches of the island, and we actually hit up 4 of them... It was great to show them all the different types of beaches we have, from all coral beaches, to perfect white sand beaches, to large waves, to small... it was great to do a little shell collecting also!

Tank Beach, the waves were the largest we have seen there today! It was also a great place for Betty to pick up some shells...

Ladder Beach, Marks favorite. It is made up of broken up coral, no sand, but beautiful water and rock formations.

Obyan Beach, One of the best places to Scuba Dive in the Northern Marianas.....

The other beach we didnt get any pictures of, but we also took them to Lau Lau, for those of you who know where that is.

After the beach tour, we also took them to the forbidden Island look out. Mark has already gotten a chance to hike on down there, but I havent, so this was also a first for me to even go to the view point and see it! What a great view!

After our beach tour and view point, we headed to Naftan Point... Naftan Point is the southern most point of Saipan and is a great place to hike for beautiful views, but also to find coke bottles from WWII. John & Betty actually found a few that were still completely in tack from 1943 and 45, so be asking to see those when they get back to the states!

Mark & John also had fun "clearing the path" with Marks machete.

Naftan Point.

Well after a long day of hiking and sight seeing, we headed home, cleaned up and surprised John and Betty with night at the Hyatt Resort for Happy Hour.... John even said something that we all think needs to go down in the history books... "If we dont ever get to heaven, i think this is close enough." Mark and I were pretty stoked to hear this! So for happy hour we had some yummy drinks, delicious food and some great entertainment and the sun set... we were entertained by both a live band and a tihitian dancer.... it was a little peace of heaven...

enjoying our drinks...

J & B on the beach for Sunset...

The beautiful Tihitian dancer....

Well, from a little peace of heaven, we are signing off to get some rest for tomorrows adventures!

Goodnight & Sweet Dreams!

Stay tooned!