I've been neglecting this....

I know, usually I write in here EVERY day, but I've been so busy since last Thursday, there hasn't been a spare moment. All of my spare time was spent with Ben until Sunday and since then, I've been playing catch up with sleep and homework.



9/28/07-Friday:

• Woke up early and got to the base reception center early. I drank a cup of cocoa and talked to my mom for a bit, then I caught the shuttle bus on base to the graduation site.


• Picked out the closest seat possible to where his flight would be and sat down to wait. Took off my shoes because they were KILLING my feet. (I definitely should have worn panty hose...blisters are no fun.)


• Watched the graduation ceremony, got chills when he marched by and took his Air Force oath with his fellow Airmen.


• Ran down to the field when it was all over and threw my arms around him. I'm so proud!


• Went back to his dorm to see where he had been sleeping/living for the past 6 1/2 weeks. I got to meet his T.I. who was friendly, but VERY intimidating.


• Walked back to the Mini-mall and had lunch with his friend Sawyer. We also went and picked up his pictures in his dress blues. I wish I had a scanner to put them up!


• Waited around until the rental car was ready and went back and hung out at my hotel for awhile. We watched some tv, visited, and listened to music. He wanted a nice relaxing day, and that's what he got!


• We had dinner at Jack in the Box (first time we'd eaten there), and I then had to take him back to the base :(

9/29/07-Saturday

• Woke up early and went to the reception center. I was walking around by myself and one of Ben's friend's families was there and grabbed me and had me come and hang out with them. They were really cool. Parents from Ireland and now they live in NY. It was nice having someone to hang out with.


• Ben showed up a bit late because he had to get his dry cleaning, and we went back to the hotel to make some phone calls before we headed out for the day. After we left the base, we realized that we had to go back so we could buy tickets for the museums we were going to visit that day! We bought tickets to Ripley's Believe It Or Not and Louis Tussads Wax Museum. It was a combo ticket. Without his military discount, it'd be about $19 per person. With it, we payed $12 total. Isn't that AMAZING?!


• We managed to drive to downtown San Antonio without getting lost (how did that happen?! People in Texas drive like bastards) and we went to the Alamo. It was really cool seeing all of that.


• We walked around for a bit more and then went to the 2 museums. I loved both of them. Wish the wax museum would have had more!


• Went down to the Riverwalk and ate at the Hardrock Cafe. It was very expensive! At the end of our meal, we were waiting for the check, and our waiter informed us that someone in the restarant had paid for our meal! Ben insisted that he know who it was so he could thank them, and our waiter pointed over at a man who was getting up to leave. He was going to do it anonymously! Ben thanked him, and the man said, "Thank you for serving our country." I had to put my sunglasses on quickly so I could hide my tears.


• We left downtown San Antonio and headed back to the hotel for awhile. It's nice to hang out there because we could hold hands or hug! When he's in uniform out in public, we can't show PDA.

9/30/07-Sunday

• I got to the mini-mall early that day, the reception center was closed. I met up with Ben outside and we went in with a couple of his friends to get some Starbucks and visit.


• We went to the graduation grounds with a couple of his friends to get some pictures (we weren't able to on graduation day because of all the commotion).


• The rest of the day was spent on base going around to the Base Exchange, the Mini-mall, Burger King, and just driving around. It was a lot of fun!


• The good-bye was incredibly hard. My stomach was aching and it was like someone was taking part of myself away. He was beginning to cry, so we said our "see you soons" (we don't like to say good-bye) and I left. I cried and cried and cried on the way to the airport. I couldn't believe how fast the week had gone by, and I didn't want to be separated again.


• To make matters worse, I got stuck in stand still traffic for an hour and every exit to the airport was blocked off. I had no idea how to get there and managed to get lost. I called the airport and they finally got me directed to this little access road that had no signs about the airport on it.


• Dropped off my car at Enterprise and got slowly shuttled to the right terminal.


• Ran inside, went to the wrong ticket counter...ran across the hall and got to the right one. I heard my name paged to come back to the other ticket counter, but when I ran back, they acted like they hadn't just called me. I thought, "screw it, I'm late" I ran back to the correct ticket counter and realized that my flight was delayed. Thank goodness! I would have missed my flight had it not been delayed!


• I got all checked in with security and got to my gate. Figured out that my connecting flight to KC was delayed too, so hopefully I wouldn't miss it and have to spend the night in the airport.


• Got on my flight and it took FOREVER to take off. It was a long flight too...like 2 and a half hours. When we landed, he took his time getting us to the gate. It was very frustrating. Got off the plane and realized that my connecting flight was leaving in 10 minutes from the other side of the airport. I booked it and RAN. Made it, got on the plane. Landed at like 1am.


• Justin and Jenna picked me up. I was going to spend the night there, but I decided to just go home. Definitely missed class the next morning, but oh well.

Now I'm just trying to plan our wedding for next June....there's sooooo much to do!