The graduation trip

The Graduation trip was great. Nick's requests were that he wanted "married time", mountain dew, and snickers. When we first got to see each other we wern't allowed to touch each other. This was extremely difficult for us both. We went to the hotel first thing. Nick has changed quit a bit. He has matured a lot. He is more sure of himself, has so much confidence, sits perfectly straight and I do mean perfectly straight in a chair, thinks a lot about what kind of image he is setting for others to see, and he really thinks in terms of team, instead of himself. He still has the biggest heart, and he was very happy to see me. Our love for each other only grew stronger with the time that has passed. We spent most of our time in the hotel room, but we did manage to see a museum with big guns, and an old jail. His parents were with us and they are so awesome. I really enjoyed getting to know them even better, and they are a lot of fun. I can see where Nick get's his loving heart, and great personality from. It was very hard to say goodbye again to Nick. That was probably one of the hardest things I have ever been through. I had just seen him again after 10 weeks just to have to let him go. There were a lot of tears on both our parts. Nick got on a bus that next morning at 2am for a 2 hour drive to the airport. His plane did not leave until 11am. They did not give the soldiers any food for the day. He arrived in St. Louise Missouri at 12:40pm. People clapped for all the soldiers as they came off the plane. Nick said it made them all feel good. The airport gave them doughnuts because they were all so hungry. The poor guys had to wait for a bus until 8:10pm that night. Nick finally reached Ft. Leonard Wood that night at 10:35pm. He went through processing and finally was able to sleep at 2am. They had him back up at 6am. It was a long day for Nick. He is doing well now, and he didn't complain at all through that.