Last Thursday I got an emergency call from my head nurse stating that I needed to come to Garrison Headquarters on base and pick up Shannon (Lori’s 6 year old daughter and also one of the providers at the clinic). She said they were going into an emergency meeting and she would explain later. Josh and I went over and got Shannon. She immediately asked if we could go to the park to play, so we headed over there. We started playing when Josh asked Shannon, “Have you ever played Lava Monster.” I thought “oh this is going to be good….and what the heck is lava monster.” Shannon said very excitedly, “No, what’s that?” Josh said, “We can’t touch the ground otherwise the lava monster will eat us.” After about 30 mins of playing the game, Josh decided that he would be THE lava monster and chased Shannon around. Many times that night, Josh asked Shannon if she knew his name…she said “Yes, you are the lava monster and you are married to Ms. Gretchen.” :)
The emergency was that Baumholder had their first case of Swine Flu. So Friday and this week have been very interesting at the clinic. At times Jean and I have to laugh at how fun (and by fun I mean entertaining) the Baumholder population is. Friday I was told to man the phones at the nurse’s station and this week Jean has been covering for the phones…...one more week of work and my job gets a little more interesting.
This past week Josh and I drove to Belgium and France (two day trips). We went to Belgium to get beer and France to go to Ikea to get Josh is big manly desk and a bookshelf. On our way to Ikea I kept talking about their ice cream and how I couldn’t wait to get it. I told Josh it was the best frozen yogurt in all of the world. When we got there I asked him if he wanted one and he said no. So when I came back and asked him if he wanted a lick he put the rest of the cone in his mouth (they aren’t that big). I couldn’t believe it but went to get another one. So I came back and stupidly enough asked him if he wanted another lick….again, I turned around and it was gone. He thought it was hilarious and I walked right back up to get another one…. received a couple smiles by the cafeteria personal. Josh asked if I could help him move something, so after he was finished moving his part I asked if he could hold my ice cream cone. He agreed and when I asked for it back, found there was no cone left. I may have laughed just because I couldn’t believe it but was very sad inside. I told him I would NOT go order a 4th cone and he said we had to leave. After we started driving home, I asked if we could stop to eat dinner somewhere and he said “I’m not hungry, I just ate 3 ice cream cones.” THE NERVE.
On Monday a group of 20 or so of us went to Hooters for Lorintz (Jean’s husbands) birthday. Monday they have all you can eat chicken wings to so much fun was had by all. I got the hot chicken wings and found that they were too hot for me but looked over at Josh and found that not to be the case for him….his next order was 911 wings (the hottest). Josh took a little nap on the way home….I was the DD. He is waay spoiled by me.
Tomorrow we leave for our honeymoon/anniversary cruise. We are both looking very forward to it, although Josh says this cruise counts as my trip…so that means the next one he gets to plan. I find nothing fair in this statement but I guess I can agree to it since he got me my balcony. Jean and Lorintz just got back from a 2 wk cruise so they had lots of good tips to offer us….one being that they slept in till 11 each day because they had an inner room so never knew what time it was. I thought for a second and realized that this balcony thing was going to back fire at me…turned to Josh to tell him that and he was already smiling. He loves to get up early so I just know that at 6 am every morning he will be gearing up to get his cup of coffee to sit on the balcony…and on his way out he will be opening the curtains all the way in hopes of me joining him.
So I will be out of commission for a little over than a week but I hope you all have a fabulous 4th of July. I will write shortly after we get back to let you all know how our cruise is.
Love,
Gretchen
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