18 wonderful days.

The past few weeks have been amazing and I couldn’t have asked for a better time together with Collin. He arrived on March 1. I picked him up from Frankfurt Airport early in the morning. His flight was scheduled to arrive at 6:50am and luckily it was on time despite the predicted rain storm. There were a few other wives waiting for their husbands. One by one they were reunited but I was still waiting for a few more minutes until he finally came out the sliding door.

 It felt so great seeing him and hugging him. It felt like he wasn’t gone at all. He still looked the same, he still smelled the same. It was amazing. And judging from that I knew the next few weeks were going to be amazing as well.

I didn’t want to fill his time here with many surpises, I wanted us to do the same things we always did. So instead of going on huge and expensive trips, we only did a 4-night stay at the Edelweiss Lodge in Garmisch. It is a hotel/lodge for military and government personnel only. There we went to see the Neuschwanstein Castle, we went skiing for one day and the rest of the time we just relaxed at the pool there, went around town and had a few drinks at the bar there.

Here are a few pictures of what we did:

Relaxing at home.

Dinner with Tina and Markus.

Bowling in Vilseck after seeing Semi-Pro at the movies.

Us at Neuschwanstein Castle.

At our hotel in Garmisch.

Dinner at Edelweiss Lodge. We got free breakfast and dinner at the lodge because of Collin serving in Iraq.

Us being goofy.

Saying goodbye was sad but not as sad as in August. We have already made plans for when he comes back for good in November. Let me tell you, I can’t wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas!