So began his 36 hour visit.  It was real nice.  No, it was great!  Awesome!  An early anniversary present!  We didn’t know it would be 36 hours, but we knew it would be short as he was being transferred to a different ship.  It turned out that on Wednesday at 1900 he got a call telling him to be at the AV unit (military side of the airport) at 0500 the next morning.  So that night neither of us got much sleep.  I helped him do laundry and pack while he took care of some computer issues that had come up.

While he was here, he did take me out for a tour of his ship.  I got to see Combat, and I also got to sit in a helicopter, right in the pilot’s seat.  How cool is that?  I’ve always gotten the impression that helicopter pilots are looked down on by the jet aircraft pilots, but I don’t see any reason for that after seeing that helicopter.  There were so many buttons!  It all looked very complicated.  The technician showing the helicopter to us explained the different gauges.  Flying a helicopter is more complicated than driving a car, even without the in-the-air part, and I have trouble with driving cars!  I don’t think I’ll be signing up for helicopter flying lessons any time soon.  Try neverrrr.  But it was way cool to sit in the helicopter.

So anyway Jeremy’s gone now, gone to his new ship.  I guess he’ll be doing this until March.  Don’t know if he’ll be back for a visit before then or not.  I’ll just have to wait and see.  But it was nice to have him home, even if for so short a time.