Into the wild blue yonder!: Im back "home"!

I flew on another C-5 simulator. This time it was with a Lt. Col. He said that it was the closest he's ever been to flying the C-5 solo....Haha. That's him basically telling me that I don't exist.

It's great to be back familiar surroundings again.

This past week has been a whirlwind of me being all over the place!

I was going crazy my last few days at Dover to get everything done and ready for my deployment. It's tough to do when half of the base (it seems) is either flying on a mission or already left for Christmas break. Haha. It was so funny walking in to empty offices all last week. Oh well, I got MOST of the things that I needed done accomplished.

Boy do I have a funny story to tell everyone. I had a bit of an ordeal when I bought my plane tickets online. Its hard to explain my screw up in a few words but just know that I got my cities mixed up. I wanted to leave from Philadelphia to New Orleans, but I actually bought tickets out of Baltimore.

I Dover on the afternoon of Thursday, 23 Dec, to sleep in Philly (where I thought I was catching my plane). I sent a status update on Facebook telling everyone that I was going to be in Philly for the night and if anyone was around that I wanted to hang out and maybe see some of the sights in Philly the next morning until I had to catch my plane. My buddy Tom called me up and told me he was in Philly at his parents house. He told me to come over for dinner and took me to a bar/grill later. It was real nice and hospitable. I drove back to the Navy base, where I was staying for the night, took a shower and laid in bed. I decided to check my email to check the time of my departing flight the next day. Ha! I saw on the email from Southwest that I booked a plane out of Baltimore and not Philly! Haha. I'm an idiot. I just drove an hour and a half to Philly, partied with a buddy and am now sleeping in a Navy base hotel......., in Philly! It was to funny! I had to cancel our plans for the next day and drive to baltimore instead to catch my flight.

On top of that I had already made parking reservations at the Philly airport and now there was no more parking at Baltimore for "regular" price. So I basically got price gouged by PARK N FLY. I think that they're terrorists by the way for doing that to Americans.

I finally made it home and saw Kristen.

Christmas was nice. We've had a long few days seeing everyone and going to different shindigs...., and it's not over just yet. But I don't care, it's just nice to see family and friends and hang around my old stomping ground.

We got to hang out with my buddy Julio who is in the Navy and about to leave on a boat for eight months to kill some pirates of the coast of Somolia. Got get 'em buddy!