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Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on November 15, 2010 at 10:34pm

Carolina.....if your daughter passed the weigh in part of her PT, she will probably be just fine. Kelcie had the running portion of her PT the morning that I left.
Sherrill.....yep, they do go out again for a MUCH shorter cruise before their final stay in port for the winter.
Sandy, I know that ABC's hubby also got a really sweet deal on American Airlines using his military discount. Don't think that travel sights like Expedia, Travelocity etc offer access to military discounts, but I could be wrong. I'd recommend going straight to the Carriers that service your area, either via phone or website and see who offers the best deal. Sometimes, it's worth a few extra $ if the flight schedule of one carrier works much better than anothers.

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on November 15, 2010 at 9:06pm

Glad you are all hearing from your sailors. I actually heard more frequently when they were out to sea, but then again, I hadn't JUST gotten to see her either :-) We don't have high speed internet where we live, just satelite, so skype isn't the greatest for us :(

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on November 12, 2010 at 10:48pm

Hi Vicky, I'm with you on the Confederate flag. I kind of have a feeling that the bar owners don't really understand what it really stood for here in the U.S. It is probably one of those cultural nuances that the Japanese would not be aware of. But I know Kelcie and her friends like the country music, beer pong and line dancing there. I would certainly like to think that our sailors would never truly support what that flag truly represented.

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on November 12, 2010 at 8:51pm

#1 Rob, (the boyfriend) Kelcie and I just in front of the Navy Lodge. It was very windy that last day before I left.
#2 View of Yokosuka Bay from Navy Lodge. The closest building is "Chili's".
#3 The family we saw in town that was dressed in traditional clothing.

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Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on November 12, 2010 at 8:39pm

Thanks SO much DC. I was messing up on the last step. Once I saw all the writing, I was giving up. Will try it again now.
Vicky.....yep, a country bar in Japan, complete with a Confederate flag that covers the whole back wall. I guess a ton of the bars are "themed" Oh yeah, in that "country bar" I saw, but was certainly NOT brave enough to try "Haba Saki" it looked like a sun tea jar full of saki (I assume), but it had a SNAKE coiled up at the bottom of the jar!!! Kelcie explained to me that the snake venom was supposed to shut down your liver for a bit, so that the alcohol could go straight to your blood stream, without being filtered. Allllllllll righty then!!! I'm such a woosy drinker that I CERTAINLY wasn't gonna be trying any of THAT.

ABC..........less than 24 hours and you will be a married woman!!!!

Comment by DC - G'mother of My Fav Sailor on November 12, 2010 at 12:08pm

Mollie, when you want to upload a picture to a post, click on the camera icon just above the box for writing your post. That will bring up a little box and give you a couple options, one of which is "Upload an image." Click on choose and you can then click on the picture on your computer. When you have the file with the picture highlighted, click on "Choose." You will be returned to the original box for uploading a picture. Click on Add and wait until the system is through doing its thing. You will see a bunch of writing, not the picture, but when you click on Add Comment the picture will appear.

I have a couple of suggestions. One is to make the picture smaller than the original. I assume you are using a Windows-based machine. I think Windows has a photo editor program and you should be able to use that to accomplish this. It will allow the picture to upload faster, especially for us when we look at pictures. Also, I save the smaller pictures on my desktop to make them easier to find.

abc, I'm thinking about you and your sailor today. I pray the wedding goes smoothly.

Comment by Mollie...Kelcies Mom on November 12, 2010 at 12:15am

Well ladies, guess I am even LESS techno savvy than I thought. I thought I could figure out how to add pictures right to these posts, but NO SUCH LUCK. Soooooo, Vicky, go on my personal page and look at my photos's to see Seth. It's a rather dimly lit pic, taken at "George's" in The Honch. Yep, the "country" bar that Kelcie and her friends hang out at. Some of my pictures got "edited" because you could read the sailor's name tag :( But I DO understand, just never thought of that!! The "blur" pic is Kelcie, when she first saw me, hahaha. One shot of the "main drag" in Yokosuka, JUST as you leave the base. Other shots taken on base, you can see the bay, and some of the apartment type housing that is on base for the married (and maybe higher ranking) sailors. A couple of shots of Kelcie and I, as well as one of her, her BF and I. One of a Japanese family dressed in traditional style clothes on the street in Yokosuka, although most by far dress in western attire. Sorry, thought I could upload each pic, and attach a description individually, which I probably could do IF ONLY I was more savvy.

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