Snorkeling Paradise

We've been incredibly busy with inprocessing stuff and getting settled. When ever Shelby moves to a new place there is a nice long checklist of tasks handed to him with all the stuff he must complete and people he needs to greet. Stuff like go check in at the medical clinic and give them your records, go check in at housing office and let them know where you plan to live, go make sure your family's insurance information is updated and they are enrolled at the new base, go meet the squadron leadership, visit finance and start working your travel voucher from your trip. It's a lot of work. And with this new, less customer service oriented, Air Force we are seeing, it can be time consuming. When we aren't doing that we are running around trying to connect utilities and get things turned on. One thing we found completely hilarious is that every single utility company asked us to draw a map to our house. LOL We already knew that GPS isn't the best here, but paper maps! LOL GPS satellites are everywhere, that is not the issue. The problem lies in that GPS makers such as Tom Tom and Garmin just don't have good maps of this island. We use Google Maps on our phone and it always knows where we are, but when we have to search for an address or a business we are often given the wrong location on the map. We've learned to ask for landmarks and directions to pinpoint the general vicinity of where we need to go on the Google Map and then do our own navigation to get there. Thank God for iPhones! However, we don't live in the jungle, we live in a highly popular subdivision with hundreds of homes, how could they not know where it is?! Not to mention the workers are mostly locals that have lived here all their life, you're telling me they don't know the island like the back of their hand? Sheesh!

But after a long day's work and rat race of completing checklists and drawing maps we come home to this.

And under the water is paradise. It's like swimming in a giant aquarium. Every time we go out we see something different, eels, lion fish, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Here is one of the videos taken during a snorkel trip. The videos do the fish and coral no justice, but you get an idea.