rin finally arrived home last night from her fly to florida and drive back. originally, it was going to take them five days to drive, but it wound up being four. tis great to have her back. she got to sleep in this morning. she's been getting up around 3 to 3:30 am and today she got up at 8:30 instead.

on the way home, she got to go to mt. rushmore and enjoy the sights. drove through nashville and saw the arch in st. louis. walked in the atlantic ocean at miami beach and had snowstorms in montana. around 70 miles outside of missoula, they brokedown. they were able to get it up and running again, found a dealership and the tech said that it might be a transfer case, but there shouldn't be any problem getting home.

when i went to pick her up, the kids were excited and ran to hug her. when we got home, rin gave the kids what she had got them on her trip. after a while, we put the kids to bed and rin showed me photos on the digital (i may put those on my flickr site. we'll have to wait and see.). we watched 24 and then she called her parents in india. we will be seeing them in about 2 weeks as we all head to san diego for jeff's graduation from marine boot. an in-n-out sits right outside the gates from the base, so jeff wants to eat there right after his graduation ceremony. i told rin that i will happily join him.

it is great to have her back home again. at least she has a little time to recover before we leave again. . .