Well, my time off didn't go exactly as planned, but it was good to be home anyway. Not only were e and MJ sick when I got there, but also our friends' daughter fell and knocked herself out the day before, causing them to cancel our dinner.
Since we weren't having company, e and I ate our Zaxby's and then took a short nap. It was shorter for e than me because she got up when MJ started crying. It was very nice of her to let me sleep.
When we woke up this morning MJ's fever was gone, but e was feeling worse so we still skipped church. Poor little e just wanted to sleep, but she stayed vertical to put together the chicken pot pies she promised me. What a great wife!
I helped e get the pot poes together and then helped her prepare the dessert: "Hello Dolly," a neat recipe e found to help get rid of extra chocolate candies and such.
I got to the base early, but we still managed to go slowly enough that we took off late. The flight out to Tucson was a long 5.3 hours, but I spent a lot of it running back and forth to the oven cooking the pies. I had overestimated the oven's size, but I was able to cook both pot pies and some biscuits for everyone. I don't know how the first one tasted, but the one I helped eat was excellent. e really did a great job. Unfortunately the dessert didn't fit in the oven at all, so we went without.
We got to Tucson around 7 local and then made our way to the hotel. On a whim I decided to ask the restaurant staff if they'd bake the dessert for me so that it wouldn't go bad. The first guy I talked to sounded skeptical, but his boss the sous-chef said yes without hesitation. I changed while they cooked it and came back to a perfectly cooked dessert.
By that time the guys were down at the hotel bar watching the Sunday night game, so we had some excellent chocolate with our game. I'm not much of a Falcons fan, but since I live in Atlanta and was with a bunch of Atlanta guys, I decided to cheer for them. Bad move. Right after I started watching the game, I watched a Falcon get a great interception then fumble the ball because he was careless with it. It didn't get much better from there, and they lost 16-3.
I'm back in the room now to rest up for tomorrow's long day. We're supposed to fly 2 hours up to Ogden, UT. The weather channel says it's going to be nasty up there, so I don't know where we'll wind up. Hopefully someplace warm.
