AKMOM

My son is ship 13, div 210 also!!!  Yeah!!!! 

Wow!  Two very awesome events happening for you!!  Congratulations on the new grandbaby.  :0)  I'm hoping I'm a ways off from that.  I have 2 children, my son (who will be 21 in May) and my daughter (who, I like to say is 16 but trapped in an 8 year old's body).  I think since my son was 13 when my daughter was born he got to see first hand how eveything changes about life when a little one comes along.  He knows he's not ready for all that.  He's still too interested in the next new video game that's coming out :0)  I am already looking forward to getting my 1st "real" letter from my son.  I'll let you know if and when I get it.  Oh yeh and the next "real" phone call too!! :0)

I just made a reservation at the Navy Lodge for the 30th and checkout on the 31st.  $66 per night (no taxes) and they put the reservation on a 6pm hold instead of charging my credit card right away like most of the other hotels I was calling wanted to do.  My sister lives up there so she is picking me up at the airport.  We'll stay the night at the lodge and then after spending the day with my son after graduation, I'll ride back with my sis to Beloit (right on the border between IL and WIS) spend the night and all day saturday and fly back home Sunday.  Your son is going to love Charleston.  The weather is great here, although it gets super hot in the summer (with humidity the heat index sometimes reaches 115-118 degrees), but there's so much to do and places to visit.  And we were voted last year by Conde Nast the Friendliest City in America.  I hope your son won't mind people always saying hello as they pass him on the street.  That's what we do here. :0)  People who aren't used to it kinda get weirded out at first.  Here in Charleston, there are no strangers.  Maybe some strange people but not strangers. :0)