Three more days!!!

That's right...three more work days until I get to leave. I've kinda given up on reading my tour book, because I've read everything I need to and have an itinerary planned. Yesterday was my day off and the goal was packing. I got my back pack in the mail (thanks mom!) on friday, so I set about packing it. The problem was, that it's considerable smaller than I thought it would be. So I took out all the stuff I had set aside from my packing list and it just wouldn't fit. So I spent the afternoon paring down and debating whether or not I really needed 2 pairs of pants, or whether I could just wear the one...I really want a spare. I think I am now down to bare bones, it'l be better this way. The bright side is that it will be a lot lighter to carry, since I plan on doing a lot of walking and hiking from town to town. Another bummer is that I have to wear my uniform down to LSA (the base we leave from in Kuwait), so I have to schlepp that with me too. I think I'm gonna ditch that in an airport locker though, so I donn't have to deal with it.

OK, the next book. On Saturday I read The Kite Runner. I haven't see the movie yet, as I wanted to read the book first, and it was awesome! This one isn't real short, so unless you plan to sit in a room with very few distractions for 13 hours like I did on Saturday I doubt you'll finish it, but it was great. as soon as I picked it up I couldn't put it down. It's about these two boys in Afganistan. It starts right before the russian invasion in the 70's and goes to 2002. It is a great epic story and very engrossing. I just went and bout his secone novel at the PX yesterday. Well, gotta go to work. Much love!