Well, Tuesday morning we received the long awaited phone call...our orders. However, they didn't come as we had expected they would. You know when the detailer (the Coast Guard dude who gets to play chess with our lives & decides where we will live for a few years) calls its not going to be good news. And this is because it mean that out of all the places you submitted, that you would like to go, none are available. For us it meant that 37 places we would like to have lived were places other people apparently would like to live also. So we are now headed out to the big state of (INSERT DRUM ROLL HERE).....................................................
...Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Yeah, that's what we thought too...Wisconsin? I have never felt the undeniable urge to even want to visit the state let alone live there & Ryan has never mentioned it either. However, we are determined to make the best of it, snow and all. So we have started making a list of activities/places to visit/things to go that will make us excited about being stationed there. Believe me it took a couple of days for me to get over the snow issue, it pisses me off having to live and deal with it, & be able to thing of anything to be excited about. Here is the list so far:
...Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Yeah, that's what we thought too...Wisconsin? I have never felt the undeniable urge to even want to visit the state let alone live there & Ryan has never mentioned it either. However, we are determined to make the best of it, snow and all. So we have started making a list of activities/places to visit/things to go that will make us excited about being stationed there. Believe me it took a couple of days for me to get over the snow issue, it pisses me off having to live and deal with it, & be able to thing of anything to be excited about. Here is the list so far:Reasons To Be Excited to Move to Wisconsin
1. The Green Bay Packer are 1 hr away.
2. Visit Green Bay
3. Norter Dame's Fighting Irish are 8hrs away
4. Hockey games (probably better than the high schoolers here in Eugene)
5. Learn to ice skate
6. Oprah is only 3 hours away
7. Visit Chicago
8. Visit Canada
9. Closer to the South than Oregon is
10. See our friends stationed in the Midwest & east coast
11. You can bait bears for hunting
12. Different ducks to hunt than in Oregon
13. Great excuse to buy some Uggs
You probably noticed #1,3,11, & 12 are courtesy of Ryan. If you can thing of any other reasons let us know. We are still waiting for the report date so I'll pass it along later.
Hey I think that Greta Van Sustran is from the great state of Wisconsin!! There ya go!!
ReplyDeleteI think the largest mall in the United States is somewhere over there...
ReplyDeleteMan, I hate that story! I do, however, LOVE all the new posts. Brooke! I am going to miss you so much!
ReplyDeleteDang...I can't wait to talk to you after you have been there for a while. Do you think you'll pick up a fun accent. Maybe you should put that on the list. That is a pretty random place, but it's awesome that you are trying to think positive!
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