Where Have I Been?

Exercise:
7 miles=4-8mph, 0-3 incline, 65 minutes

I can't believe it's been a week since I last logged in here. Okay, I've been slacking I know.

Well, let's start off that we (myself, my mom, the boys, Lauren, and my sister) went to Ft. Rucker, Alabama to visit my husband. He is now a W1....Warrant Officer...the lowest rung of the ladder. But hey, he'll start climbing now.

It was a nice ceremony. It was in the Ft. Rucker Aviation museum. A small band played. We arrived a bit late since my husband said it was at 1:30pm and we arrived at 1pm and it just started. We didn't really have a place to sit since we were "late". We also had to get a camera. So Mom went and found a little souvenir shop and got one. We didn't get a picture of him getting pinned. It was too late. We just got after photos. That's okay. We did try the camera on the phone but those came out crappy!

Well, we had left at 4:30am from my sister's house. We picked up Mom at around 5am. The drive was nice. The anticipation of seeing new places always appeals to me. First real view of a new place was Shreveport, Louisiana. At first it looked like any other "po-dunk", then out of glaring sun you see glittering hotels. Sparkling like jewels of gold and silver. Ahh....Viva Las Veg...hmm...I mean Viva Las Shreveport! Yeah, those hotels were casinos! LOL! Nothing much else to see in Louisiana. Lots of road and trees. We finally crossed the state line into Mississippi. VICKSBURG! Oh, that was a very pretty place. As soon as you cross the Mississippi River, there was this beautiful but yet old place. It was so well landscaped. I would liked to have stopped there and seen the "old" place. The history was calling out to me. But we couldn't stop....no time to. We had a deadline to meet. Get to Alabama before 5pm. So on we went. Again, nothing much else to see. We went through Jackson, but it was like any other small city. No biggie. Then as soon as we crossed over into Alabama we got off the main interstate and took a "highway" to Montgomery. Okay, lots of two lanes and old people. Had to hang back until we could pass them. Ended up in Selma. Supposedly a historical place and the highway leading to Montgomery...historical also but we didn't have time to find out why. I'm thinking Martin Luther King, Jr. Anyway, got to Montgomery...RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. UGH! That was no fun. That slowed us down immensely but we finally got through and headed south to Ft. Rucker. Again lots of road and trees. What amazed us though....was that we were soooooo close to the ocean but yet we were in the hills and mountains and lots of twisty-turny roads. We didn't expect to see that. Was that the tail end of the Smokies? Could have been. But we finally made it. Checked into our hotel. And trust me, I was never so glad to see the beds in our room. We didn't get to see Bobby. He was at a reception and really.....I think we were tooo pooped to care.

Anyway, it was nice to see Bobby. The boys enjoyed the hotel pool. LOL! They enjoyed the fact that we ate out almost every meal. LOL! Now they are spoiled....and wanted me to take them to McD's yesterday for dinner. LOL!

This morning, I had a bit of chaos. Poor Daisy. Last night, she wanted me to let her out of her kennel. I thought she was being ornery and was just wanting out to be out. Nope. She had to "go". This morning, I woke up to the smell of poo. I go into the bathroom and it hit me like a tidal wave. UGH! She had diarrhea. So I let her out immediately and took the kennel outside too. The boys just got done rinsing it out and is now sitting in the sun to dry. UGH! Poor Daisy. Bad, bad, bad Mommy! I'm just not used to her "clues" yet. I don't trust her to leave her out yet (chewing!!!). And I never am sure if she is just wanting out to play or out to go do her business. Eventually, I hope, I figure it out.

On a good note, Lauren has, yet, another tooth coming through. The top right front.