Wings

J flew to Virginia on Tuesday to watch K1 graduate from AIT (Tech School in Air Force lingo). The next few pictures are of him getting his wings pinned on him. J did not pin them on. The pictures are not the best, they were taken with a phone.

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Now both J and K1 are in LA. K1 will be here until the 25th and J goes back to NM on Monday. It's probably a good thing too, because every time he comes, it ends up costing me money. The new toy he bought this time was a fancy grill. I post pictures tomorrow of it; we did use it today. Our house has a gas hook-up on the back patio so we didn't need to get the propane tank. It is kind of nice.

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K1 and K2 have been out roaming the streets of Shreveport. K1 wants to live in the mall and K2 isn't to thrilled with that idea. He follows her lead though as he can't drive and she has the car. They are supposed to go the DMV on Tuesday to see if he can get a permit.

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Buddy is very happy to have all of his "people" back in one house.
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In other news, I got my first water bill; it was for over $700 for the month. It said we used 88,900 gallons of water. Unfortunately, the difference between the prior months usage and current months usage was only 889 gallons, so yeah, I'll be calling the water company first thing Tuesday morning to get that fixed.

The Dragon

Today, all 4 of us went out to dinner one last time before K1 leaves Okinawa. He joined the Army and leaves on Tuesday. He wanted to go to The Dragon which is a ramen joint.


He shaved his head the other day so he doesn't quite look like himself. The lighting in the restaurant left something to be desired. The place was packed and the ramen was okay, but it was very dirty (at least to our American standards), but it must be a go to joint for teenagers. I think the novelty for them is the fact that it is very cheap. It was about $20 for all four of us. The bowls were huge. I'm going to be checking out the local stores to see if I can find where they sell them.


This is of both kids together:
A bowl of chicken cutlet noodles:

K1 thinking he's cute:

K2 with her omelet filled with fried rice. In Okinawa, when the Japanese get their pictures taken, they always make the peace sign:

Another thing about Okinawa is that there are vending machines everywhere. I told K1 to pose and K2 jumped in.

If they let me take pictures when he is swearing in tomorrow, I will post those as well.