I am posting for Kelly because he is having trouble getting on this website. This first picture is from his brother Chris. Most of the Wood family cars and Mom Hakes have a blue star flag on it, representing a family member serving in war. We have one on our car. If any Hakes sibling wants one, I know where to get them.
Below are some pictures Kelly sent from Jalalabad. The captions are also from Kelly. We get to email regularly and talk on the phone about every other day, which is better then we previously thought. He is in a public room everytime we talk, and he is using shared phones. The signal on the phone is great, however. He can get pretty much anything he needs, except for family. It is good to know he is taken care of.
This is the best picture I could take of my room. It's pretty much just my bed and a few feet of empty space to the side. Someone before me built those wooden shelves, so that's nice. The room also has an air conditioner, so that's very nice. 
This is a bad picture, but I was trying to be discrete. This is the cafeteria aka D-FAC aka chow hall. Here it's all decorated for the air force's birthday. Generally they have a main line with turkey or pork chops or whatever, a grill with hamburgers and hot dogs, a taco or potato bar, salad bar, a bunch of fruit. Also, there are fridges with cans of soda and gatorade and lunch and dinner have a dude who scoops baskin robbins ice cream. It's run by KBR (aka Halliburton) and generally very good with good quality food. It's a thousand times better than the Academy cafeteria and much better than Ft Dix. I'm sure the Army is paying them a fortune, but it's free to us.
This is the place where I sleep. This one is on the end, so you can't see that there are dozens of these lined up real close together. There are 8 of us in here, but it's divided in half, so my part has me and 3 civilian contractors. I'm kinda lucky because my half has 6' high plywood walls in them giving us our own kind of private room. In most of the huts, people have to hang blankets from the ceiling to form makeshift walls. And like most of the base, there is a random pile of rubble.
5 comments:
Wow, not exactly the Ritz Carlton but very very cool Kelly! We are so proud of you :)
I love the blanket on your bed:) I remember Cassi making that for you, how sweet!
We love you guys. You're in our prayers.
Cassi, we miss you too. I get jealous when I hear of the girl's nights you and Janelle have. I wish you, Janelle, Maren, Carrie, and I could all do something fun together. Having us all so spread out is tough. I like how you posted the picture of Chris' clunky truck. We also have the sticker on our van. We are so proud of our Kelly! We are so proud of you too. I often miss Chris when he's off on his 1 or 2 day work trips. Yes, it's nice to get him home to help me with the kids, but even more so it's just because he's my husband and I miss him. You are tough and I can't imagine how wonderful the feeling will be the first time you and Kelly are reuninted again. How far on the countdown are you now?
It looks like they are taking care of you. That must make it a little easier to be away. Hang in there Cassi! It will be over soon enough!
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