I REALLY MISS MY HUSBAND!
I had to post that because sometimes we forget or neglect to share with our spouses how much we love them. It's times like this when we are apart that I realize how much he is an important component in our lives.
Gavin left early Thursday morning for a week of fun in South Africa with a group of High School students. It is WOW (Week Without Walls) week for the High School. Each year they plan some amazing trips both service oriented and just for fun for the students to go on. This year they had three Habitat for Humanity trips to Cambodia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka and three fun trips to Bali, South Africa, and Spain (girls only). The trips fill up fast by the Juniors and Seniors first so Jonny didn't go this year but Gavin (Jack), was asked to chaperone the trip to South Africa and he has been rubbing it in for months that he gets to go but maybe it's Karma because he almost didn't make it.
The group left the High School at 2:00 in the morning on Thursday for the Dammam Airport. I got a call at 3:45 that he had forgotten his multiple entry/exit visa and a taxi would be at our house to pick it up soon. The visa's are printed on just an ordinary 8 1/2" x 11" paper that is loose from your passport and you aren't supposed to staple anything to the pages in your passport so we keep them in the safe at home. We need to carry our passports and use them quite often here so we don't want to lose the visa so we only take it with us when we leave the country, but he forgot to take it with him.
The taxi showed up at the house at 4:11 and his flight left at 5:20, talk about cutting it short. The airport is normally about 45 minutes away but since we know this driver because he personally caters to the teachers here, he drove 180 KPM and got to the airport in 27 minutes (which he told me later in the day when he picked us up for soccer). So he barely made it onto his plane.
We had a long four day weekend due to the WOW trips so we had a very relaxing, maybe a little boring weekend just doing nothing. The couch has become my friend again, or at least for a few days. Since I can't drive here, we are home bound most of the time. We stocked up on food before Gavin left so that I wouldn't need to really go shopping except for a few basic things. We have compound vans and taxi's that can take us places but I don't really want to do that unless I have to.
The kids have all been playing with friends and having fun while I've been catching up on movies. We found a place in one of the local malls that sales pirated DVD's like we got in China so I've been watching some of the movies that we have missed over the past few months. After a few days of sitting, watching, and eating I had to get up and do something so I actually went to the gym and worked out. Rachel and I walked around the compound for about 30 minutes and then I lifted a few weights in the gym. We have a gym only 200 yards from our house and this was the first time I have used it...SAD! I think I need to get in there more often. No excuses.
Anyway....this has been a very lonely weekend without my wonderful spouse. Sometimes it's nice to have a little break from each other and this time I've realized how much I really love him and can't wait for him to come home and hear about his awesome trip. I'm hoping that he will have loved it so much that he will feel he has to take us back. South Africa is calling me...next Christmas sounds good...let's all cross our fingers!
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