Riditian Caves

Emmaline's friend, Elaina, had her 6th birthday party yesterday.  He mom arranged a tour of some caves on Ritidian Beach, to which we've never been.  Not for lack of trying :)

We only stuck around for the cave tour and skedaddled when it came time to swim, we had other things we needed to get done and it was HOT outside! But I think I (well, Matt actually) got some fun, cute pictures.

Our baby girl sporting a straw hat.  My oh my...so cute!

 Lottie is in the little green sundress and Emmaline is in the striped shirt right ahead of her.  Lottie was so brave the entire time, marching along over the roots and rocks.  She had no fear of the caves and even kept pulling us further in when it was pitch black!

Emmaline, on the other hand, was terrified of the caves.  Actually, I think it was the spiders.  She saw a lot of spiders on this hike.  She refused to go into this cave although Lottie aparently wanted to live there. 

Matt got this picture, which I think is pretty amazing.  Its just pretty.  I'm so lucky to live in Guam where most of our adventures look like this :)

This is the second cave we went into.  You can see Gabriella's rosy cheeks- she was so warm but she loved bouncing around and kept throwing her head back to look up at the trees.  Matt finally grabbed Emmaline and forced her to go into this cave.  She was screaming "You can't make me! Don't force me!"  The thing about Emmaline is that she is usually terrified about anything new and once we push her to do it, she is so excited that she got to experience it.  She clung to Matt like butter on bread but talked about the cave like she had no problems with it on the way home. 

This last picture doesn't have anything to do with the caves but it was the only picture from our last trip out that I liked a lot. We went to FishEye Marine Park where you can go deep down into the water and watch the fish in the coral. I love the color of the water, the green trees, and especially Lottie and Matt!

We've been trying to get out and experience more of the island lately.  Hopefully we'll keep getting some good pictures!