So I would tell you everything I did, but then I would be in jail for a long time... but as you can see, they don't let us shave, eat, or give us t.p. (where do you think the sleeve went?) Yes, this is what I look like 20 pounds lighter and short a good 15 hours of sleep. I can still remember exactly what I ate after SERE. That night I had a bowl of homemade chicken-rice soup, a pork taco with avocado and sour cream, small steak, muffin, two slices of zucchini bread, and three cookies. The next day was steak and eggs with cheese, a bagel with cream cheese, another bagel, two slices of pizza, and then a double bacon cheeseburger with a monster order of fries, then we went to dinner at outback, splitting cheese fries, bloomin' onion, buffalo wings, and then the 9 oz sirloin with baked potato and salad. Then.... well that was only the first two days after SERE (search evasion resistance and escape). There was still plenty of food on saturday and sunday. Surprised?
Someone was ready for trick-or-treating. Kate, Elizabeth, and I went to a Halloween party. We decided Elizabeth was the tallest albeit youngest baby at the party (who would've imagined that?)
Our first full day in Hawaii, it was raining off and on. So it was only me who went out onto the Arizona memorial. It was certainly a moving monument. The National Park Service shows a thirty minute video before you go out to see the monument reminding you of the importance of these men's sacrifice. I wish I could show the water better than the couple pictures I have. You could still see the forward and aft turrets under the water, rusting away. The water was still stained with dark grease smudges and oil spots shimmering on the surface, looking as if the ship itself was still bleeding for the 900 men aboard.
Here is the view you get approach- ing the monument. The saddest part of the this whole experience is how you are only able to get about 30 minutes with your group at the monument. In my mind that is no where near enough time to take it all in.
And, because I can not leave the post on a non-lighthearted thought, this picture was from Kate and I driving around Oahu. This picture was taken from Bellows beach on the North East side of the island. I thought the mountains were gorgeous. The whole time we were driving around the island, the rain clouds were obscuring the peaks in the center of the island, making the mountain peaks look like Mount Olympus (because if I was a greek god, I would choose to live in Hawaii instead of Greece). And, I would stop underlining this last paragraph, but Kate's computer decided it wants to keep it underlined and there is nothing I can do to stop that.
So I would tell you everything I did, but then I would be in jail for a long time... but as you can see, they don't let us shave, eat, or give us t.p. (where do you think the sleeve went?) Yes, this is what I look like 20 pounds lighter and short a good 15 hours of sleep. I can still remember exactly what I ate after SERE. That night I had a bowl of homemade chicken-rice soup, a pork taco with avocado and sour cream, small steak, muffin, two slices of zucchini bread, and three cookies. The next day was steak and eggs with cheese, a bagel with cream cheese, another bagel, two slices of pizza, and then a double bacon cheeseburger with a monster order of fries, then we went to dinner at outback, splitting cheese fries, bloomin' onion, buffalo wings, and then the 9 oz sirloin with baked potato and salad. Then.... well that was only the first two days after SERE (search evasion resistance and escape). There was still plenty of food on saturday and sunday. Surprised?
Someone was ready for trick-or-treating. Kate, Elizabeth, and I went to a Halloween party. We decided Elizabeth was the tallest albeit youngest baby at the party (who would've imagined that?)
Our first full day in Hawaii, it was raining off and on. So it was only me who went out onto the Arizona memorial. It was certainly a moving monument. The National Park Service shows a thirty minute video before you go out to see the monument reminding you of the importance of these men's sacrifice. I wish I could show the water better than the couple pictures I have. You could still see the forward and aft turrets under the water, rusting away. The water was still stained with dark grease smudges and oil spots shimmering on the surface, looking as if the ship itself was still bleeding for the 900 men aboard.
Here is the view you get approach- ing the monument. The saddest part of the this whole experience is how you are only able to get about 30 minutes with your group at the monument. In my mind that is no where near enough time to take it all in.
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