17 DAYS AT HOME

Casey made it home in time to celebrate Christmas with us. We enjoyed him very much or let me rephrase that, the time we saw him. He spent most of his time catching up with his buddies. That was ok. He spent the last night with us, we had a nice dinner then played board games. Didn't go to bed until 12:30am. We had to have him at the airport at 5:30am the next morning. Boy was I tired. He was supposed to check in at Camp Pendelton at 1:30. His plane was delayed leaving Springfield, so he missed his connecting flight in Denver. He spent all day at Denver on stand by. He called us at 8:00pm and said he had finally made it to San Diego. We are already missing him.