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Well I have been a bad, bad blogger over the summer and thought I would do a quick recap of what we were up to over the summer, but do it mostly through pictures. We went camping to Fort Meade, Maryland near Baltimore, took a quick trip to Ocean City, Maryland, went to Chocolate World in Hershey Pennsylvannia, had a fun get together at our house on the Fourth of July, went to Hershey Park in Hershey, Pennsylvannia, took a trip down to Charleston, South Carolina to scope out the area before we move there next year. Went to the beach there and got to see our first alligator!! Celebrated Vanessa's birthday, enjoyed some summertime thunderstorms and finally sending off the kids to another year at school. Whew!!!
Well we had a whirlwind weekend here in the Bennett household. Vanessa went through the temple on Saturday and a friend of her's from Washington State flew out for it. Walter was still sick and Nicole was coming down with the same thing so he stayed home with the kids while I got the great opportunity to go with Vanessa. It was a gorgeous, hot day here in Maryland and the temple was packed. Parking was hard to find, which is a wonderful thing. We enjoyed our session and spending this special day with Vanessa. 
After the session and photos we headed out to a late lunch to Red Robin in Germantown. I haven't been to Red Robin since Spokane. We had a nice lunch with Vanessa, David, Ben, Kathy and me. Walter graciously agreed to pay. LOL!! It was a long day and we finally got home in the evening. Then Vanessa, David and I headed to Sam's Club to pick up Skyler's birthday cake and decided after that to show David the covered bridge. We got home pretty late and we were exhausted and had to get up early the next day to head into D.C. Oh ya, the dogwood blossoms at the temple grounds were just stunning!! These are my new favorite blossom. Just gorgeous!!
On Sunday, Vanessa, David and I headed into D.C. for the day to show David the sites. It was going to be another scorcher day here on the east coast. In fact it got into the 90's there and I thought I was gonna die. LOL!! We took him to the White House, Washington Monument, Holocaust Museum, World War II Memorial, Lincoln Memorial and then walked the entire mall up to the Capital building. Whew!! That's alot of walking if you know D. C. We then headed to Union Station for lunch and a little shopping. After that we caught the metro back to Shady Grove to head home for Skyler's Birthday dinner, cake and ice cream. (I will post about that tomorrow). It was a jam packed weekend and my feet are throbbing and even managed to get a blister, LOL, but it was fun and exciting. Okay, I am off to design for NSD!!!
Well we knew it was coming and we were waiting, well not so patiently. Walter turned in his Base of Preference list to personnel back at the beginning of March. They said they would load it right away. We had a list of 8 bases we would like to go. Walter was nice enough to let me pick 2 of the 8. This list we were allowed to do because of the kind of assignment Walter had this time. Well he kept checking with personnel to see if it was loaded yet and it was not. We were getting concerned because the window allowed for us to use this was running out. So the other day Walter yet again called down to Andrews AFB personnel to see if it had been loaded. Still not done. Then just barely 2 hours later he gets and email telling him he has an assignment. What? LOL!! During that slim 2 hours, personnel managed to finally get his base of preference loaded and he was selected for an assignment!! I still am shaking my head in disbelief that the Air Force is even capable of giving us this much notice. LOL!! So without further ado here is where our assignment will be to. Oh ya, only pics right now, ya gotta guess!! Oh one more thing, of the 8 listed bases this assignment was one of my 2 choices!!
Mystic tanning, yep spray tanning. I thought why not give it a shot. How bad could it be? I went tanning with my SIL Vanessa yesterday and decided to give the Mystic a try. She laughed and said I would look like an Oompa Loompa. The girl was giving me instructions and from the booth next to the front desk we hear "Oompa, Loompa" (My lovely SIL singing). The girl stops the instructions and everything goes silent. So she starts again and we hear "Dompity Doo". Yep she started singing again. I about died laughing. When they took me back to the room with the "Paint booth" she showed me the lotion I needed to put on my feet and hands and told me how much to use and not to rub it in, just leave it all gloopy. She shows me the sensor door opener and closer and the sensor starter for the "Paint Booth". So she leaves, I lock the door and proceed to get my tan. I slop on the inches of lotion on my hands and feet as instructed, put on my hair net and step into the booth. I wave my hand in front of the the sensor to close the door and nothing, I try again, still nothing. After several attempts of this I figure it is the 2 inches of lotion on my hands causing interference and use my arm to wave to shut the door. I then wave my hand in front of the start button (not learning my lesson obviously) and again nothing. So once again I resort to my arm and then take my spray tan position with eyes closed. The machine says, "Spraying to start in 5 seconds" and counts down. It then goes through my head, "what was I thinking?" The spray starts and moves up and down. Once it stops the machine mumbles something, wasn't sure what she said but I figured I better turn around. So I take my stance again and the machine counts down again and sprays the back. 30 seconds after it starts it is done and the door pops open. I tried not to fall out of the booth with my lotion slick feet. I got out trying not to breath in the fumes and chemicals and then proceed to wipe off the excess (as instructed to). They told me it would take about 4 to 6 hours to show up. I left thinking, "Wow, why don't more people tan like this, fast, easy and instant tan!! 6 hours later I had an answer as to why they don't. While I am not an Oompa Loompa, the tanning is not even at all and where they told me to slather all that lotion on, got NO tan what so ever. So I have white hands and white feet with funny white lines on the wrists and ankles where I had lotion on. It also did not cover all over very nice and I have some spots on my thumb and the palms of my hands are dark (that wasn't suppose to happen according the instructions). So lesson learned, never go the quick and easy route, cause well, you just may end up an Oompa Loompa.
