this guy was cute, but i'm going to protect his privacy by not uploading the pics :)

Helllllllooooooo Laaaaadies,

Happy New Year/Merry Christmas!!! How is life in the CC treatin ya? Deployment is just about as much fun as I could ask for. The best way I could describe it is glorified babysitting...with your testicles in a vice. Hope both of you got to go home over the holidays and enjoy some real winter weather.

The good news is I am going to SWOs (aka SWO Mecca) at the end of Jan. So I get to go back to the states early, and watch the Bears in the Super Bowl. I know we are all excited about the Bears being in the playoffs! So I don't have to remind you to brush up on the Super Bowl Shuffle....

Here are some pictures from deployment. One is of the fine ship Dextrous....yes it does list to one side...no, no one can figure out why. What a piece of shit. We were in Dubai for New Years. Ryan and I went to Ski Dubai which was an indoor ski slope. That was excellent. Not very big but decent snow skiing for the middle of the desert. They had a jump there too (I think I got like....3 feet of air that time). The only time I fell was walking out of the locker room in ski boots. Pretty funny. I saved the best pictures for last. New Years we went to this Roadhouse Bar (kinda like Jakes) in some pretty sweet suits. The plaid suit I had made in Bahrain inspired by the movie Caddyshack. I would dare to say it was the greatest idea I have had in a loooooong time.

If you write back use this email, I don't have access to my gmail over here. Hope both of you are still kicking a in flight school. Keep up the studying. I would ask you to send some mud pie....but I don't think it will travel very well!

later
kevin