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381 August 29 - Wednesday - 7:00 P.M. My Sweety Darling: Your letter of the 16th finally got here - took a two weeks even but there wasn't any other mail. What are your chances of coming home by ship now? I’d really like you to, even if it does take longer. And hells bells you won't ever get a Pacific cruise for nuthin' again. How did the Japanese on the island react to Allied victory after they had a chance to think about it? Did any of them really think that Japan was going to win? I'm curious, after recalling some of the things you wrote when you first arrived on Tinian [pg 2]. Celebrations!! I could take one before and after breakfast in our room, and then go right on thru the day with time out for a nice relaxing sleep every once in awhile - Golly, but it will feel good to really enjoy sleeping and everything else again. 8:30 P.M. Tonight I had a really luxurious supper - jumbo size Louisiana shrimps - the first since Boulder. Such tid bits are just beginning to reappear on the grocery shelves, and they are snapped up pronto. Sweety - I wish you could see our ruffly big purple petunias out back, and the little white ones beside the patio. I should be putting in [pg 3] more plantlets, but I don't think I will, just one more thing to make me believe we'll be leaving Carmel before too long. Not one call on the carriage so I guess we’re stuck with it. Saw Dana downtown this morning, and she babbled on for about twenty minutes starting with the usual “What d'ya hear from Warren?” She did mention one thing I didn't know, tho you've probably heard about it already. The Language Pool was to move from Hawaii to the Philippines in November, but of course the end of the war has put the kiwash on that. Wendy button nose has been lots of fun today. She finally learned how to get down from [pg 4] a step by “ditting down” first. She was so pleased with her new accomplishment that she kept practicing all afternoon. She also learned to say book - “boop.” She is into everything and that's no exaggeration at all. The waste basket gets turned over every day, and each piece of paper and bit of string is carefully examined. I love to watch Wendy when she drops something she stands perfectly still, with a very solemn expression on her face and says “Aw.” Such a satisfactory sprout, sweety you've just got to get home to us soon. We love you lots and lots, darling- Bobby
