More about California...

A did a post about California a few days ago but I didn't really say what we did while we were there. On Tuesday we flew into San Diego at about 10:30  their time. On our flight we flew over the mountains. We checked into our hotel and rented a car. We drove over to Cornado Island and hotel, we went to the beach, and to a few shops. That night we went on a harbor tour for about two hours. On Wednesday we went on the USS Midway which is a Navy ship. They have it set up like a museum so you can walk through all the rooms and go on the decks. We were on the Marine base all day Thursday and that night I went and hung out with two of my friends that live there. On Friday Chasten graduated and we flew home and landed in St. Louis a little after midnight.

Usher

For my best friend Jamie Chambers birthday I bought us tickets to the Usher and Trey Songz concert in St. Louis. We had so much fun we rode the metro from the Belleville campus to the concert and met some of our friends from volleyball there. The concert was about 3 and a half hours long. On the way home we didn't realize that the metro stopped for service close to midnight so we were stranded at the fairview heights stop. We then had to get on a Metro bus and ride back to Campus. We did run into some girls we went to highschool with on the bus. Overall we had a really good time.

U.S. Marine Corps.

Going to California was amazing! We got there on Tuesday and did some site seeing until Thursday. Thursday we went to the MCRD and got to spend time with Chase for a few hours. It was so hard to send him back! Friday Chasten graduated the Marine Corps as Private First Class Hecht. He said boot camp was really tough at first and that the cruciable week was hard! He's happy those 3 months are over! We are all soooo proud of him! He gets to be home until January 4th, then he goes back to California for some more training and school. Saturday we had his coming home party at my house and it was a blast!