Am I Going To Be Left Behind On The Main Land!?

We said goodbye to my parents yesterday and drove to Albany, NY. Gil thought the goodbye went really well till I got in the car and started crying. Of course my parents know me so well that they called me after we left the house and all my dad said was "You need to stop crying." Which of course didn't help. We will see them again when they come to visit us in Hawaii next spring, which is nice to know.

We only spent one night in Albany. We took Gil's cousin out for ice cream and a little shopping. We were up bright and early this morning to take Gil's car in to the shop. Since we can only bring one car to Hawaii we are leaving his car with his relatives in NY. So, we got it all cleaned out and up to date on all it's check-ups and it is ready to go into hiding for 3 years.

Gil's Aunt was nice enough to drive us to Boston so we didn't have to lug our 4 suitcases on the Greyhound Bus from Albany to Boston. We made really good time and met up with Gil's brother, Anthony before his class. During our drive though we got a call from the travel agent as well as the transportation office in Quantico, Virginia. Apparently they were having a problem issuing my plane ticket for Saturday. The tickets were under my married name but Gil's orders were never changed so they had my maiden name. Of course that doesn't fly with the military and it has to turn into a worst case scenario of me not flying to Hawaii with Gil on Saturday! Lucky us we were able to get in touch with just the right man who had the power to change Gil's order on short notice even though he isn't associated with Quantico anymore. He said he would "take the blow for this." As my parent's like to say, "Welcome to the military." Nothing can be easy with them. I am sure we have many more years of this to enjoy! If our first move is this difficult maybe it can only get easier....right!?

No need to fear anymore. All is well with our flights and we will BOTH be flying to Hawaii early on Saturday morning!

Now that we are in Boston we are just waiting on Gil's youngest brother to fly up from Tampa and we will spend tomorrow with them before we leave.

Now I have to go get ready for dinner because it isn't much longer until the new season of The Office starts! Hope you all watch it and enjoy it!

The Begining

The past year has been full of exciting change. We not only graduated from college but Gil decided to join the Marine Corps and I traveled to Spain to try my hand at Spanish once more. Also, after six and a half years of dating Gil and I finally tied the knot. On top of that we found out that our first duty station will be Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii!

It has been an emotional year with me living in New Hampshire at my parents house, working and planning our wedding and Gil in Virginia going through OCS (Officer Candidate School), TBS (The Basic School), and IOC (Infantry Officer Course.) Now after 4 graduations, Gil is finally done with school...at least for now.

Our wedding took place in New Hampshire at my parents house. It was a perfect day and I couldn't have dreamt of anything more. Both of our families flew in for the occasion. Many of our high school friends who we hadn't seen in years as well as our college friends flew in for our wedding. So many of them put other things on hold to make it to our wedding and we are so appreciative of that! It wouldn't have been the same without them.

After six months of planning the day had finally arrived! The weather was perfect, the chairs were set out, the decorations were up and it was finally time to get married! Everything went off without a hitch. The gathering of old and new friends and family was great. Everybody made the party phenomenal. The food was amazing, the music was great and the storm held off till the very end. We would both like to thank everyone who came out to celebrate with us, it meant a lot.

The very next day Gil and I were up at 4 a.m. taking him back to the airport to get back to IOC! Of course the roller coaster didn't end with our wedding day. He went back to school and I stayed in New Hampshire and packed up all of our gifts. I traveled to Virginia a few days later with my dad and got settled into our apartment. Of course we were only there long enough to get settled when the movers were knocking on our door to pack all of our things back up. Sometimes I wonder why we ever unpacked at all. Now, my little Ford Focus is on a boat headed to Hawaii and all of our things are in crates, which we are hoping will arrive in Hawaii sooner rather than later. We have left our little apartment in Virginia to travel back up to New Hampshire one last time for who knows how long.

We are spending our last week in NH with my parents, NY with his Aunt's and Boston with his brothers. It is bittersweet spending time with everybody because we don't know when the next time we will be back on the main land.

After a very eventful year we are off on yet another adventure...Hawaii! I am not sure what to expect but we are both very excited to begin our life together.

I think that will be it for our first post. We fly out on Saturday and finally begin our honeymoon and hopefully when we return we will have a house waiting for us. I am not sure how much access I will have to a computer since mine is on a boat somewhere but I will update as much as I can. There will be lots of tropical pictures on the way as well.