Welcome Home Sailor

Several nights ago we waited up till 1:00 AM to go to the airport to greet Lee's RP who was coming home from an almost year long deployment to the Horn of Africa. Along with the hospital CO, XO and Master Chief and a number of other sailors and family we waited and waited, only to discover we had the wrong date. Ok so we had a dry run and I took a lot of fun pictures. Fast forward to two days later same time, same place. RP came in as expected and was greeted like a hero. You could see the relief on his face at being home. For him Guam is REALLY home since he was very young. So his Mom, Dad, Sister and fiance' were able to be there to greet him too. Unfortunately, just before he arrived I discovered the camera was out of batteries!! Rats!!!! Of course there is nowhere in the little Guam airport to buy batteries, especially at 1:00 in the morning. So all the pics of the event are of the "dry run" two days prior. They can be seen on our Picasa Web albums page. Our girls are pretty happy to have RP home, they have such fun picking on him and I think he gets a kick out of teasing them too. Welcome Home RP!