On my way

Well I am now at Norfolk Naval Station waiting for my flight later today. We (me and 3 other people from my base) flew in last night and checked our baggage into the terminal then went to our billeting rooms. I fly out of Norfolk at 5:30pm and from there go to Bangor, ME, and then Ireland before landing at Al Udeid, Qatar. We take a chartered plane to Al Udeid and have to stay on it for quite a while. I hear it kind of sucks.

Anyway, from Al Udeid I will fly over to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) and then take a Rhino (up-armored bus-like vehicle) or something similar to my base in the International Zone (IZ). I will email or update this again when I get there on the 2nd if I can. Hopefully everyone is figuring out Skype so we can talk over the internet. If you have questions, just call Richard.

Take care while I am gone and God bless!

Love, Micki

Webcams

Well we finally got our webcams up and running. We are using Skype to communicate for now. May switch to Yahoo Messenger or others at some point. My user name is amanda.smeeding (clever huh?) and his is Nukeproof2k. Try giving us a call some time! You don't need a webcam to call, but it is more fun that way! Later...

Preparations

So this is the first post and you may need to bare with me. Richard is off in Colorado being a guy- camping, hiking, 4-wheeling, going to a wedding.. Ok maybe not that last one (even though he is going to one today). I am at home trying to help get stuff ready for my deployment. This is as far as I got besides napping today. I love Sundays! Probably won't write again till I get there but now you know this exists.

~Micki