Graduation Day

So here's the deal on the vacation blog. It was a really long trip with many highlights. So, there will be multiple blogs. Gotta keep you guys in suspense :)

December 2nd - Graduation Day!

Even though I arrived in Texas on Thanksgiving we couldn't officially begin our vacation until Chris finished Tech School. The night before graduation was spent loading the car and packing (and my final Texan steak) with much anticipation of leaving the "beautiful" state of Texas. We were up Friday and off to the hangar for the graduation ceremony. Good thing about the military - they keep things to the point. An hour later we were on the road with the car pointed West. Finally.

Chris graduated with honors as A C-17 Electrical & Environmental Systems Mechanic. (When people ask me I say he fixes stuff on the big cargo planes) He still has training to do at McChord but now has his fancy maintainer badge on his uniform. Needless to say, I was a very proud Air Force Wife that day. So the disclaimer on these photos (all the vacation photos).... the new camera we got... sucks. So, these are kinda blurry, too dark, too light, whatever - but it gets the point across (I'm only going to complain once Chris). The one of me pinning Chris' badge on is particularly bad, I made a bad "can you take our picture?" selection. One of Chris' buddies had a nice camera and was going to share those photos with us, which I will pass on to you guys.

Class photo

Retired Thunderbird jet

I got to kiss him while he stood at attention.

There he is! SSgt Walker!

Proud wife :)

F15 cockpit - I learned a very important lesson that day as to why fighter pilots don't where dresses.

One last picture before we hit the open road!

I also took a video of Chris getting his coin for graduating with honors from the training Commander, BUT see above sentence about the crappy camera for why there is very little audio. Huff.

Next stop - Albuquerque