Time For an update!

Well, its about time I quit putting off updating the blog. I need to get with the Program! So first things first. I cant figure out how to move the pictures where I want them. So you get to see them first. :)

...after I got home from Chicago. (Which is by far the worst place I've ever been to visit!) I got all of Den's things ready to ship to him. The most important thing being his cell phone! I must say, he did pretty good making sure to call me off the pay phone for a few days until his phone got there. He would call me once a day, and we'd talk for about 10-15 minutes a day. This was the best to finally talk to him everyday! But I came to the conclusion for the first little while it was rough having to go from talking to him through letters, and now we are able to talk whenever we wanted. Mad me miss him tons more! But I was thankful to get to talk to him all the time!

Before I left Chicago I remember Den telling me how fast 14 weeks would go by fast. Psh! Who was he kidding?! I wasn't about to wait 14 weeks to see him again! Once he recieved his phone one of our first conversations was about when he'd be home again. And once he decided he wouldn't come home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, I took matters into my own hands. And started looking for flights to go see him. Ofcourse, I couldn't just jump on a plane and go see him, I had to talk it out with him. While we were talking one day I just happend to be checking our online banking, and saw that there was a charge for plane tickets...as much as I wanted to jump up and down. I kept my cool and waited for him to tell me, but he just kept talking and talking, so I prolonged our conversation until he finally said "Oh by the way, I found a good price on a plane ticket for you!!!" Thanks Honey!!!!

Now for the good part. Dennis has always been so frugal with our money, which is so good, but not in a case like this. I was supposed to fly out on Friday November 5th. and come home the Monday the 8th. Now writing this, I realize I must sound so selfish, but I really wanted to spend as much time as I can with him. My itenerary said I arrive to Connecticut at 10 pm, just in time to go to bed! haha. But really I am SO thankful that I was abel to be with him. And we made the most of our time together. We stayed in Rhode Island the first night.. And bless my husbands heart, again he was looking to be frugal and save some mula, so we stayed in two more different hotels for the next 2 nights after that. haha. I asked how much he saved and he said $25..and if it were me, I would've just spent that extra money to stay in the same hotel. But oh well. It made for good memories! haha

Before we left Rhode Island, we took a little tour around the city, and stopped at the mall. This mall was HUGE! Not as big as Mall Of America. But it was pretty big! On our way out of the mall we saw a bunch of people so excited, out side Barnes and Nobel. So I decided to give it a look and to my surprise it was BUDDY from Cake Boss!! too some pics! He is soo nice!After that we drove to Groton, which is where Den is stationed at the moment. We drove through thee most BEAUTIFUL towns! Oh my heck, they were pretty. And it was the perefect time of year, with all the trees turning colors and the houses. Oh my heck, it kinda reminded me of a town like on Hocus Pocus. Not as creepy, but old houses and tall colonial style houses and the trees. I was secretly wishing that we'd get stationed there! :) Then we arrived at our next Hotel for the night. When we pulled up I had to have a little giggle. This hotel was cute on the outside but was a joke on the inside. It had walls of paper in there. I was woken up at 3 am to the sounds of "shouting for joy" in the room next to us. I couldn't believe Den could sleep through that!!

The next day we went to the Ocean, where I saw my first lighthouse! It was soooo pretty! It was at that moment, when I thought that as much as I hate the idea of living far away from family, I am so thankful to be able to travel and see all of these things, in which I otherwise wouldn't have been able to see. Later Den took me on base and showed me around. We weren't able to take pictures there because of confidential something or other..but was impressed how big base is. We had so much fun being together! I miss him everyday, and some worse than others. But in the big picture we have eternity to be together! For that, I will be forever thankful!!!!