Deployment Time

My mother in law, Debbie and 2 of my sister in laws, Samantha and Devin came to visit us before Matt left. We went to St Augustine to the Alligator farm. I've added some pics below. We went to Adventure Landing and the girls had fun going down the "Toilet Bowl Slide". It's actually called something else, but it looks like a toilet that flushes you out the hole in the middle. Debbie planted a garden for me and taught me some things about gardening. I'll have to take some pictures of it and post it here. We did a lot of running around while they were here but we had fun. We went on a Family Day Cruise on Matt's ship too. Austin and Devin got the "Big Gun" shells to take home. We were worried the airport wouldnt let Devin take hers, but they did. None of us got sea sick. But we saw a lot of people who did. The rocking motion put me and Debbie to sleep and the "Big Gun" woke us up lol.

Matt left on Friday morning. Austin didnt want to go see him off so he and Tristen went to the neighbor's house. Breanna went with me to see Daddy off. We walked around on the ship a little bit and waited for the CMC to get the CO so that he could give me my Ombudsman Pin. It was an informal presentation, but it still cool. Breanna wanted to stay with Matt on the ship. She got upset when she couldnt. We stayed until they told the visitors to get off the ship. Matt seemed more upset about leaving this time than he usually does when he has to go somewhere. It upset me more that he was upset. He's getting tired of leaving us. But it's what we signed up for. Breanna and I went to the Jetties to watch the ship leave port. I wanted her to see and understand that he wasnt just going to work, but that he was actually going away. We waved to the ship as it left port. We couldnt tell which guy Daddy was because they all wore the same thing, but we knew he could tell who we were so we waved to everyone. Breanna cried a few times that night. She even slept in my bed. But she was ok the next day.

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