I didn't sleep very long - we arrived minutes before midnight and were in bed by 1:15 pacific time - my body was still on eastern time and I was wide awake, but not very refreshed at 3 am pacific time!! I had to force myself to go back to sleep for a little while longer finally getting up at 5:30 am.
After a quick shower, I startd puting away clothes and getting things organized. We just dropped all the bags, changed quickly into our pjs and that was it for day 25! The girls slept together in one of the beds and I was able to put away both bags and organize the room without bothering them!
Shortly after 6:30, I woke the oldest daughter and had her shower and get ready. Instead of actually waking the little one, I just flipped on the TV and let it wake her up!
It wasn't much after that when I heard from my wife. Instead of having to wait until 4pm as we originally thought, she would be getting off around 8:30 am or so which was nice. That helped get both girls going and we were out the door a few minutes after 7.
When you get a rental car after dark and are totally tired, you don't always remember important facts the next morning like "which car is mine?" I got to the point in the parking lot where I thought I had parked it and hit the emergency button on the key FOB - we had a grey Chevy!!
As we got outside the hotel, we were greeted with that famous Seattle rain! It was in the mid 40s but the rain was cold! We had a 45 minute drive south on I5 to the army base - on the way we stopped for breakfast at Jack-in-the-Box!! Had been about 15 years since I had eaten at Jack's place - it was pretty good. The girls didn't enjoy the milk - it was that fake california stuff where they take a little bit of milk, some milk fat and water, swirl it together to make something that looks close to milk but not really!
We drove through Tacoma and then continued to Ft. Lewis arriving a little after 8:15. My wife was in the process of finishing her muster and team meeting so our timing was pretty good. We were able to pick her up and get off the base by 9am!!
One thing about my wife, she's not a big fan of the military food so she's lost some weight. I think it was her main mission this weekend to pack on a few extra pounds! She has a complete adversion to MRE's - I never had an issue with them but she refuses to eat them. No matter, everyone was happy to see her.
We came back to the hotel and all three girls went swimming. The hotel we are staying in is okay. We're close enough to Seattle it will be a short trip and far enough away from the military base my wife won't have to worry about that for the weekend! The girls had the pool to themselves in the morning - I sat on the side and read the paper - was nice not having to have all my senses on full alert for a little while!
Our internal clocks are totally messed up so we were starving around noon pacific time plus we were a little groggy! We drove over to the local mall which was quite nice and had lunch at Rainforest Cafe. The food was good but you still pay for the atmosphere there just as much as you do the food. We walked around the mall for a few minutes then headed back to the hotel for a nap! That nap felt wonderful!!
Of course it was raining so we headed over to the same mall - it appears the indoor mall is of major importance here because it was packed! We had a nice supper and walked around a little bit. After that we came back and we just took it easy in the hotel!
Day twenty six comes to a close, here's looking forward to day twenty seven!!
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