Papi's home for a while

(The girls love wearing our shoes and they found Papi's boots. Eve's in the white shirt, Sy's in the blue. If you click onto the picture it'll blow up bigger so you can see clearer. Enjoy!)
Sylvin made it home! Yeah, but he had to stand duty the first day back. So the three of us spent alot of time on the ship with him on Friday. DJ, one of the other chief's on board volunteered to relieve him for a few hours so he could come home and spend time with us here for lunch. We went back down to the ship and I brought him dinner and the girls were able to run around the chief's mess on board, so it was a nice homecoming anyway. He spent the night on the ship and we three girls went home. Only to wake up Saturday morning to a 6.7 earthquake! I had gotten up to go to the bathroom, a rare occurrence, and I had just got back into bed when I began to feel the mattress tremble. I was questioning myself and the situation when all the sudden the trembling increased into an undeniable bed shaking earthquake! Geeze they're freaky! Feels like someone had just dropped a quarter in the bed and there's not a slot I can assure you. I asked Sylvin when he got home if he noticed it or not? I wondered with him being on the ship, but he said yes they felt it too. He said they were all debating if the engines started up by themselves or not. I guess being moored up to the pier with shore tie cables that are extremely heavy assist in the experience. We made the Chicago Tribune paper!?

6.7 quake jolts Guam; no damage or injuries reported
By Associated Press
8:24 PM CDT, May 9, 2008

HAGATNA, Guam - An undersea earthquake off Guam with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 shook the U.S. territory Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

There were no reports of damage or injuries. A magnitude-6 earthquake can cause severe damage.

The quake failed to generate any destructive, widespread tsunami, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu.

The quake struck at 7:51 a.m. at a depth of 54.4 miles, the survey said in a statement. It was centered 125 miles west-southwest of Hagatna, Guam, and 250 miles southwest of Saipan in the neighboring Northern Mariana Islands, it said.

Kim Alba, lifestyle editor at the Pacific Daily News, said that the quake jolted her house and woke her up, but that the shaking was apparently the extent of its impact on the island.

Air Force Tech Sgt. Brian Bahret, spokesman for Guam's Andersen Air Force Base, said there were no reports of damage there. And Sarrah Iguel, a dispatch operator for Civil Defense in the Marianas, said no one called to report damage.

Guam is west of the international date line, about 3,700 miles southwest of Hawaii