This year, Nick is still in school so I decided to drive down to Virginia so that we could spend the weekend together. I left early Wednesday morning, made it through the pouring rain and traffic, had a couple of mishaps but I finally got here.
Bright and early I picked him up at the base, it was the best feeling to see him again, it was freezing outside and we were both shivering but we couldn't stop hugging.
After dropping his things back at the hotel, he changed into his uniform and we went to find some breakfast. We stopped at this cute little diner and had a great meal. The women sitting in the booth behind us came up to give him a great big hug, and thanked him, her husband was in the Army as well. She was so sweet, when we went to pay our bill we had found that she had already paid it for us.
We went to do a little site seeing, since it was such a beautiful day.
We went to see the Lincoln Memorial,
the Korean War Memorial,
the WWII Memorial
and the Washington Memorial.
After searching for somewhere open to have lunch we went back to watch the final Harry Potter movie together. We went out to get some dinner, but after making a few phone calls, and spending a while driving around, we discovered that no one but CVS was open on this Thanksgiving evening. So, we went in, bought some pizza rolls and cheese sticks and came back to eat our strange dinner.
We certainly didn't spend the day as you normally do, I didn't even get to watch the parade but I honestly couldn't have imagined in any better. After these last six month, anything would have been wonderful, as long as we were together.
