Things I've learned:

As the ..military business trip... has gone by, I've learned a few things. 

It's been a good little trial run of a longer trip, for sure, and I can't wait to see the goodies C (or rather... Hochi, now..more on that later) is bringing back. Regardless I'm certainly firmly in the "ready for you to come home now" camp. I won't say much more than that, for OPSEC, PERSEC and all the SECs purposes. (I could not resist, I am so sorry.)

Now, to what I have learned so far. 

1. Take Sunglasses, especially if Hochi is flying one of the jets over. This serves two purposes. Shielding your poor sensitive eyes from the beaming rays of the sun. They also hide the fact that you're basically sobbing, from everyone else around you. Don't worry, they cant hear you over the A/B. 

I have never been so happy for sunglasses. 

2. Having family there makes it a lot easier. Granted, I knew this from all of my Dad's deployments, but it is arguably different when your spouse deploys instead of your father. We had a lot of fun, and a full house (7 people, including me)

3. Dogs are great, but probably don't rely much on them for conversation after everyone leaves. 

Also, you know you have reached adult status when you are super stoked to finally have a fence installed in your yard. 

4. If there is a chance Hochi will be gone for your anniversary, He definitely will be. 

No big deal though, He sent me a lovely gift (365 reasons he loves me!) and some beautiful flowers, and we can celebrate when he gets home. 

This is less of a thing's I've learned, and more of a super sneaky random update on how things have been going while he's gone. 

Tricked you. 

Fly Safe,

Barb

The Apartment:

Remember when we first moved to Cola and lived in a short term lease apartment? Remember when I said I would upload pictures of said apartment?

Well, when C was coming up to go on a ...military business trip... I ended up taking a break so I could spend some time with him, and while he has been gone my hands have been a bit full. I am not one to break a promise, the day has finally come... pictures of.. what I have now dubbed.. the SWAT apartment.  

 When you first enter the apartment. Living room and balcony to the left, dining room to the right.

 

The Kitchen and Living room. The kitchen had two entrances, the one you see in the first picture, and one in the hall. 

The hallway, and second bedroom. It was the only floor plan available, we just used it to hold some boxes of our clothes.


This floor plan had two bathrooms, one had an entrance from the master, and the other from the hall...but the real treat was that they both had an entrance to each other...ya know, in case you get lonely while you're pooping.


Master bedroom, which purely existed to hold our air mattress...the air mattress that decided to get a hole into it two weeks before we would move out. Poor C tried everything to keep that thing inflated all night.

Looking back at these makes me so happy to have a Home. It was cute, but it was not dubbed the SWAT apartment for no reason.

Fly Safe,

Barb