Ohhh….it’s been a long couple of days.

I started cooking our Thanksgiving feast for two on Wednesday. I think I got about 4 hours of sleep that night before I was up again at 1:30am to start the rolls & put the turkey in the oven.

The goal was to have everything cooked & ready to go as of 7am Thanksgiving morning.

Why so early?…

Mandatory Fun Day.*

Eric’s battalion was ordered to report to formation at the football field at 0845 for a mandatory fun day of watching Enlisted vs. Officers in a game of flag football.

I got some great pictures to share but I’ll have to share them Sunday. I’m beyond exhausted & tomorrow morning I’m hoping a bus with 44 other battalion wives to go to the Namdaemun market for some last minute Christmas shopping. It’s supposed to be an all day affair getting us back home at 10pm. So yeah, I’m gonna need all the sleep I can get.

But I promise to take all kinds of good pictures to share as well.

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

*Mandatory Fun Day – the military’s answer to helping soldiers deal with stress. Make them show up to events they’d really rather not show up to at all, fuss at them if they’re late & in this case, make me have Thanksgiving dinner ready by 7am because I have to go with Eric to stand outside in the cold for hours watching the Enlisted guys kick the Officers butts. It was fun the first hour or so, but it didn’t matter if some of the soldiers had families here – who were cooking their own Thanksgiving dinners – they had to stay. So I had to stay.