Hi ALL...
I dont know if I mentioned this to anyone, but, we were on TOTAL communication lockdown mid Dec, till a few days ago.... No notice, just came into work one night, and no more capabilities to check anything but mil sites..
The only thing we could get on, was .mil sites.... no yahoo mail, no gmail, no BYC, no nothing....
SO, to keep you updated:
Friends of mine at the terminal got me on a C-17 cargo flight on 22 Dec, so, I made it in time to pick up the kids from the Frankfurt Airport on 24 Dec... (Cpt Fowl got a few photos with the load masters!).
The kids and I spent a week or so together, and had an absolute blast. We even got to spend a few days in Amsterdam together.. Cpt Fowl spent lots of time touring with us...
We went to Trier, Heidleburg, Mannheim, Landsthul and other cities, that I can't spell ....lol... Cpt Fowl has photos taken in the most craziest of places.
On the day I took my kids back to the Frankfurt airport, I checked the Pax terminal, and believe it or not, I knew a load master who was taking 3 medical crews back to Balad... so, I got a seat. It all worked so well.. hard to believe, how smooth my trip was.
Now I am back and on a 10 week countdown... to go stateside.
I am thinking I will be home, end of March or so.
My plan from here on out is to look for a job when I get home, and now, my 18 year old dau, transferred from FSU to go to school in Jax, will live home with me for a year or two - so I get to play mommy again!
Even tho, they opened up restricted sites again, we still cannot use usb's to transfer photos, and phtobucket is still a banned site.
Please be patient as I figure out ways to get photos to Darlene, so we can post Cpt Fowl in our austere surroundings...