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Permalink Reply by DenverGF(Kristin) on
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Thanks! I have been looking at different places to stay and flights as well. My boyfriend as I said above is a Corpsman grad-n-go, but he is staying in GL. I have heard we still will get the weekend with him, but I'm not too sure yet. What job does your son have?
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Permalink Reply by Riptide11/128 on
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Roberta....HI! Welcome aboard this thread! Thank you so very much for the travel information! I haven't booked our rooms or airline yet. We are "planning" on flying into Milwaukee and are anticipating flying SW airlines. They do seem to have the most friendly arrangements. Our anticipation is to rent a car and yes, we are looking into the Navy Lodge. I'm sure that my son would very much appreciate a room with a kitchenette, although after reading a few posts on pizza and cheeseburger w/ fries, I would imagine that would be a fabulous treat for our DS.LOL
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Thanks for the welcome! This is actually my second time around on here (oldest graduated 8/22/08). It's a very helpful group and I really appreciated it the first time round with my older son. RTC's facebook page is also great, we didn't have that before. I checked flights from WA to Milwaukee and they were more expensive than flying into Midway, plus there were no non-stop flights. I was able to get non-stop both ways, but have to leave early (6:30am) Thursday, but that gives us plenty of time for delays, we are also staying until Sunday evening, hoping to have a lot of time with my son this time. Hopefully no grad-n-go. I reserved a room with the kitchenette this time, maybe we can save a little money that way, but I hear what you're saying about cheeseburgers! Where in WA are you, we're in Puyallup. Were you at meps for the swearing in?
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Roberta....Holy cow, we're about 1-1/2 hrs from you. I'm in Westport! Thanks so much for the info on Midway, rather than Milwaukee! I'll definitely have to check that out! Yes, we're hoping to save some money with the Kitchenette as well. After all, it's prohibitively expensive eating in restaurants. We can save a whole lot of money if I cook instead of us eating out. I'm sure that our boy would very much appreciate a homemade bacon/mushroom cheeseburger! LOL
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What a small world! We were just there a couple of weeks ago. My boss has a beach house and he let us use it for the weekend. Normally our "beach house" is our trailer camping at Grayland State Park. Westport/Grayland is my favorite weekend getaway.
I'm hoping to be able to cook up some of his favorites, but I was also looking for a Red Robin - he's a huge Royal Red Robin Burger fan. Took him out the night they were at the hotel, but he was so worried about making weight that he had a lighter sandwich, so was hoping to make it up in Chicago! He weighed in the next morning 5 lbs under his max weight! I think that has been his biggest stress this whole time. He's been in DEP since May and didn't want anything to screw it up.
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Roberta,
We'll have to keep in touch...maybe the next time you come to the beach we can have a face to face!! I love it here!!
My son turned 21, just 9 days before he flew out to BC. His birthday request was for us to go to Fujiyama in Black Lake. It was a blast. I hear you on the "making weight", my son isn't the least bit 'fat", but yes, he had to watch his weight and eating like crazy....worked out like a mad man to try to keep his weight at an 'acceptable" level. He's a little guy, but still weighs, at his lowest, 170 lbs. It's an odd anomoly in our family. It must be bone density, because we are all much heavier than we "look". Put us side-by-side with someone of the same size, clothing size and height, and we'll outweight them anywhere from 15-20 lbs. I have a 14 yr old who is 6' tall, thin, and yet he weighs 210. There is another boy who is much heavier looking, same height as him, who plays sports with him, and this kid only weighs 185 lbs. As I said, this other boy "looks" much heavier. Again, it's an odd anomoly. The son who just joined is only about 5'6"...very thin, but he weighs 170 lbs! LOL
He said there were 2 new people at the recruiters office at his last check in....they weighed him, said, "No WAY....lift your shirt up if you don't mind". He said he was kind of embarrassed, because he felt like he had his shirt up for the LONGEST time! LOL He said they were just shaking their heads and saying, "I just don't GET it! I really don't get it. How can you weigh what you weigh. It just doesn't seem possible! You're not FAT at ALL!" LOL Like you said, that weight has been the absolute biggest stressor for him. The trouble too, is that he's not a big-time weight lifter, so he doesn't have a big neck, which on the measuring, makes him appear to have a high body fat content, which is just not so! LOL
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It is such a relief that the weigh in stuff is over. He's 6'4", max weight was 221 and he struggled to get there over the summer. Of course the fact that he's 22 and was doing a lot of partying didn't make it any easier! He started out at 240, but that still doesn't seem that heavy for someone that tall. My family is also the "big bone" type, people are always amazed that I weight as much as I do (even though it's waaay too much!), I never thought of bone density, but that makes sense! My husband's family are all built pretty small so any extra lbs really show on them, so we are total opposites, my boys are built more like my family, so I guess that the downside for them (at least my youngest). I suspect after boot camp his weight will not be an issue, because he is the pickiest eater ever, so he will probably only eat to get by.
Were you are meps when they were sworn in? His girl/friend (formerly girlfriend) and I were there, I was wondering if we may have seen each other. I have a few pictures, maybe your son is in one of them.
Hope the weather is improving out your way. Still very cold here, no new snow but it looks like it stayed cold here today - the trees still have snow on the branches and we only had a couple inches. Supposed to be sunny tomorrow (I hope)!
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LOL....yes, big boned types and those with a higher density definitely weigh more. We have extremely large hands and feet as well. Thank goodness I'm tall, so the large hands and feet are not noticeable at a glance. LOL
As for going to his swearing in, sadly, no....we were not there. It broke my heart, but we had two of our other kids and our grandson. Grandson was being a holy terror (all the excitement), and honestly, my son didn't want him there. He was so terribly nervous about the whole thing, that he was worried it would cause problems for him if his 2 year old nephew was squealing and acting up. Oh my gosh Roberta, if you possibly have pictures, that would be so amazing. My gosh, if we could get pictures to share with him, that would be like a dream come true!
Hey, your son didn't by any chance stay at a motel with 3 of the other guys did he? We were at the Clarion the night before and did see three of the other guys who were flying out with him. I do know that one of the guys was really stressed about his weight, because he'd been working so very hard to stay within bounds. The young man who was very tall and with the group didn't look like he was overweight, in fact, he looked thin....but big boned. LOL
It got sunny here for a while today and melted a lot of the snow, but the temperature has dropped to 28 degrees.....brrrr. It sounds like hubby is going to have an icy drive to work tomorrow....not to mention having to work on the big rigs in the cold. brrrrr!
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Good Morning! Yes he was at the Clarion and was very stressed about weight, worked out a lot that day (got the sweaty clothes to bring home that night-how nice!).
I will send you a message with my email address so you can email me and I can get the pictures to you.
Sunny here today, but it was 18 degrees when I left for work - now it's 27 here in Tacoma. Nice thing was the roads were clear and dry this morning!
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Oh gosh, yes, I'm sure that was your son. Three of the guys were working out like crazy, but mine also showered and hit the pool to swim with a couple of his siblings as well....AND work on his swimming.LOL We went to dinner together, but yours stayed at the motel...my son felt bad for him because he was having to be sooooo careful about what he ate. Mine threw caution to the wind and partaked in a cheeseburger, knowing it would be his last for a very long time.LOL I sent you my email.....: - )
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Permalink Reply by Bebe on
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We booked our flights lastnight from OC. Price was pretty good $300 each. We will land in Milwaukee and drive in Thursday afternoon. Today I'll book the rooms. So looking forward to getting a letter soon.
For those that have booked the rooms-did you call the hotels? I found on online that the only discounts available are for millitary or seniors.
Have a great day!
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Wow...that is a pretty good price! Thanks bcordova for posting! Welcome! We haven't gotten ourselves booked on anything yet, but I have been doing some research. We have quite a trip ahead of us (from WA state), and hope to arrive on Thursday so to get some sleep the night before. Have a wonderful day!
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