I Am Inbound

From the 7th of October I have been on leave.
Here are some key words associated with my leave:

Miami (flew in and out of there)
Carnival (cruised from the 16th through the 23rd)
Western Caribbean (Where we were initially scheduled to cruise)
Eastern Caribbean (Where we -actually- cruised, due to the next keyword)
Wilma (See keyword above and keyword #1)
Standby (The kind of flight you get on when you are supposed to fly out of keyword #1 on Monday evening but realize that due to keyword #5 that ain't gonna happen)
Blessed (To have spent a couple of weeks with my wife and daughter, that we both got the early flights out of Miami we needed)
Ibis Hotel (Since I arrived in Paris a day early I needed a place to stay)

And so I am at the hotel. I will catch the shuttle to the airport around 8am tomorrow, local time. After that, a few days at the lovely Ali Al Salem transient storage facility and airbound shuttle service in to Iraq. Then on to my truck stop.

I've Been Framed

Slowly but surely

More construction pics of our new C-Huts:

Tearing Down Day

Well, here are more pictures from Row 0. Now they've gotten down to the ground and are grating and levelling it.

Soldiers: Start Your C-Huts!

Looks like we have have activity. Right now just dismantling the tents and such. Apparently they will displace a row full of soldiers, dismantle the tents, remove all of the existing 'stuff', regrade and gravel the ground and then replace the 10 tents with 5 C-Huts. I would imagine something like a week for each row.