We FINALLY know where our permanent station is! We will be heading to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina sometime early July, and will be spending the next 2.5 years (or more) there. I know you all are dying to go see us there, so make travel plans now. We have a twin bed you can sleep in. Any takers? ANYONE???
It's been awhile since I've updated this blog (I'm not apologizing anymore, what's the point?) so I will catch you up on the past six months. Denver made it through OCS (yay!), he did amazing and got into Signal Corps, which is the IT/Communication branch of the Army. We are now in Augusta, GA for advanced branch training. I am loving being able to live with my own husband full-time again and feeling like a real family. We have an amazing apartment here with great neighbors and a pool which we are insanely excited about swimming in this summer. Augusta is a very old Southern city with lots of awesome old Civil War era houses and a sweet Riverwalk on the Savannah river. We are two hours away from everything here - Savannah, Charleston, Atlanta. We are planning on making a lot of weekend trips.
Last weekend we had four days off and decided to make a trip to Disneyworld. The military gets a great deal on tickets - free for service members and $100 four-day passes for up to 6 other people. We stayed at the Holiday Inn for only $31/night (gotta love Priceline!) and even got the room with the bunkbeds, which was one of Libby's favorite things about the whole trip! I was worried about the age of the kids, but this trip was truly a dream come true for Libby. She absolutely loved it. She got to meet a ton of princesses and got their autographs, and told me that at Disney "dreams really do come true!"
This trip affected me in an unexpected way - I have been to the parks a million times and after three years of working there I thought I had done it all and seen it all - but then I have never gone with kids before and got to see the park through "new eyes". We went on rides I have never been on before (spent a lot of time in Fantasyland - teacups, peter pan, dumbo, etc), spent a lot of time meeting characters, and other activities I wouldn't normally do. Seeing the parks though my kids eyes made me realize that this place really is magical for them. It was a very cool experience. Libby was the perfect age I think for going, I definitely want to go back when Mikaela is 4 years old. Anyway, enough of my Disney mushiness...
So Denver finishes class June 24, and then we're off to North Carolina. I am so tired of moving I am having trouble motivating myself to think about it. I am excited because we are only an hour away from Duke University, so I will be spending the rest of this year preparing an application for the PhD program at Duke, hopefully I will get in! If not, I am applying to the University of North Carolina as a backup.
I think we will be coming home sometime this summer, I hope we get to see everyone! I am a little homesick and missing my friends and family. I hope everyone is doing well.
Because I am blogtarded I am not going to upload all my pictures on here, so just follow the links below to see pictures if you're interested.
Disneyworld 2010 photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=161133&id=538410939&l=b8ba46f8e2
OCS graduation/cruise photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=144197&id=538410939&l=149fc96f0f
Hawaii January 2010 photos
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=155061&id=538410939&l=be04cd1243
