Days 97 & 98! HALFWAY

WE'RE OFFICIALLY HALFWAY (technically more than halfway since that was Saturday!). We are past days 97/194 and still going! Saturday the cadets had their community service project so J didn't come home this past weekend. However, my parents and I decided to drive to Sac for the day to go to ikea (there's none here 😢) and meet up with J for dinner. We left around noon and got to Sacramento right around when J was finishing up showering. He met us at ikea and we walked around playing games like the children we are 😂. One of the games we played was covering up the names of the ikea furniture then trying to pronounce them as quickly as we could once it was uncovered. Some of them sounded HILARIOUS. After ikea, we drove in to downtown Sac and had a delicious dinner at the Boiling Crab. While we were walking to the restaurant, I noticed a homeless lady who kept doing this weird thing with her mouth, and I asked J if that meant she was on/ did drugs. He said yes and explained that they actually just learned about that in one of their classes. We had dinner, got dessert at Cold Stone, then shopped around barnes and noble until it was time to leave. J knows me so well and knows what I love, that he actually covered my eyes and walked me over to the cutest beauty and beast figurines. So of course, I bought some. We left Sacramento around 9pm, got home, texted J for a little bit, then knocked out. Sunday I worked, but J stayed to help out at the family orientation for CTC I-17! He said they finished the orientation early so they got to turn in a commendable (I think that's J's 2nd or 3rd one!) AND one of the higher ups said they did such a good job, that he was going to open chow hall and have ice cream together! J said it was nerve wracking at first, but then it was okay! Later that evening him and another cadet went out to the track and did a workout. J is helping him try and run his 1.5 mile faster, and the other cadet took J into the weight room and showed him his workout routine. I thought that was really awesome and I loved that they are helping each other out. I'm excited to hear how this week will go for them since the new class reports today! I hope these new cadets adjust well! It really feels like just yesterday that J reported! 

98 days down.. 96 days to go! 

💚 AJ