I've been lucky enough to be able to talk to Ben a few times since he left on Thursday. He and his fellow Marines have had an interesting trip. It seems they got stuck both places they landed; the first time because of bad weather at their next destination, and the second time because they were just a small part of a huge group of people that needed to be moved. Last I heard, he was supposed to be heading to his end destination sometime Monday evening, but I haven't heard from him again to know what's actually going on.
So now, we wait (and those of you who know me also know that waiting is not my strong suit). We knew before he left that communcation might be limited once he arrived in Afghanistan. We're hoping that the longer the unit is over there, the better the communication facilities will get. We'll see, I guess.
And now, all that's left is the picture of the day. As I mentioned before, the kids are both making paper link chains, with a link for each day of the deployment. They looked pretty pitiful for the first couple days, but now they're starting to fill out a bit. Here they are after the addition of their day 6 links:
Tomorrow's day 7 - almost a week down (though it's not technically a complete week til 4:30am on Thursday)!!
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