Summer Plans

We've been waiting to see where we'll be headed this summer. We had high hopes when the slate first came out- there was a slot in RI, and a couple on Okinawa. Those were our top choices. Then the slate was revamped and those were taken off the board alltogether. Next, Dan was told that due to an overpopulation of lawyers, and the fact that we are at a desirable location (say what?!!), Dan will get crummy choices.

He was given a couple options and none of them were law billets. This stressed him out considerably. His choices included: being a range officer at Camp Pendleton, A recruiter in Kansas, or working on the drill field at Parris Island. If you know Dan, any of those would be a fate worse than death. Any of those probably would have had us staying here for another year and would have ended with him getting out of the Marine Corps.

Fortunately, right now we are penciled in for Washington DC, to work for the Secretary of the Navy. No clue what that job may entail, but it was the best option we had! We should have more concrete info by the end of the month. We hopefully will know stuff like: if we are for sure going to DC, and when we need to be there. Joshua doesn't get out of school till the second week of June, and the Sprint Triathlon will be in May, so any time after that is okay. Except we have the family reunion in CO the end of June. I don't even want to think about the cost of flying a family of 6, and renting a van!! Aack!