Saturday, 3/28/2010 – Spent the day with Nick, Landden, Melissa, Melissa’s family and other close friends of Nick and Melissa. This turned out to be a pretty full day. Todd enjoyed the mix of people, personalities, food and crazy home videos. Landden had a good play day, took a good nap and got a new three wheeler. Of course, I enjoyed myself and time with Nick and Landden. Melissa turned out some great “wet” burritos, yum!
Sunday, 3/29/2010 – Guys day out! Todd Floyd, Joe Crowell and I picked Nick up at 10:00am this morning, drove to the San Bernardino National Forrest, “Big Bear”. Made a quick pit stop in town and then returned to our start point of the day’s journey for hiking in the mountains. We had evaluation changes from 4,000 to 6,000 feet plus. The weather was excellent, sun, wind, snow and lots of fresh air. We were hoping to see a few animals; only a few buzzards, a hawk, a couple of blue birds, 2 ground squirrels and 1 lizard. Still pretty cool though!
We hiked, in my estimation 6-7 miles, this involved climbing up and down the side of the mountains, jogging for the challenge and exercise. Yes, this old guy kept up with the younger guys – Too Easy!!!
After the hike we drove back down the mountain and had some lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings. Got to listen to a couple Valley Girls talk about her “Ex-In Laws” or Friends “In-Laws” and how well the new nose job was such a success. Then sitting on the other side were two guys smoking a Hooka Pipe. We were like, “Oh no there not, are they? Yep, they broke it out, set it up and filled it with flavored tobacco.
We ended the day by watching Repo Men. Kind of an odd plot that could very well be realistic in the future; I sure hope not though.
Tomorrow, we get back to training and work.
Oh yeah! CPT Floyd learned that our team is more than likely going to be split once we arrive “Down Range”. It’s quite possible that all four of us will end up in four different locations with four different CCTs.
Keep checking back for follow-ups.
