Due to the overwhelming requests for a blog continuation while we are out here, welcome to our first entry!! These past couple of days have been an adventure to say the least, but we wanted to start out with giving you a run-down of where we live, so here it goes!
If anyone has seen 'The Unit' that gives you a pretty good idea of the base housing community - the wives are mainly stay-at-home moms or part time workers. They play strange games once a month like ' ' which is some sort of girls only bonding time, and they are already recommending starting a family in this odd place (save me!!).
The base itself is fairly small, and you can walk to most of the buildings in 15 to 20 mins. The library has 4 computers, 2 fiction shelves, a few non fiction shelves and a big wall of movies (does it sound like this was geared towards Geoff?!), but you can request books online and for now I am reading 'Marx'. There is also a small bowling alley, a subway, a pizza place, the commissary (which is about the size of a small safeway and has only american food), the RX (which is like a mini walmart with basics like clothes, pharmacy stuff, toys and kitchen items), and a bunch of work buildings. The one thing we found out very quickly is that Sundays and Mondays EVERYTHING closes on base, so people around here live for Tuesdays.
Our temporary house is a duplex (like a townhouse), it has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big kitchen, dining room, living room, and has new basic furniture in it. Our estimated time frame for moving is 3-6 weeks but we have no idea what kind of place we will get at that stage as of yet.
I will get my camera out in the next couple of days to give you a better idea of the area - and will update with our crazy first few days in a little while!
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