Chris' command has this wonderful idea to have a family reintegration retreat at Disneyland, and decided to make it MANDATORY for everyone to attend. They didn't seem to care about the fact that we have a 6 week old baby. Disney is only an hour and a half away, so we packed up, asked our neighbors to let out Baylie a few times, and drove up to Disney for the night. On the way there I talked with Lisa who informed me that the line to get the room key was super long and it took them almost an hour to get checked in. When we arrived we indeed found a very long line. Charlotte was screaming because she was hungry and Chris' OIC (officer in charge) took us up to the front of the line so we didn't have to wait with Charlotte. I went to check us in and the lady told me our room wasn't ready yet. I almost strangled her. I politely informed her that we needed a room and it needed to happen quickly, to which she handed me 3 room keys and pointed me in the direction of our room. Funny how that works. The schedule of fun filled activities had us meeting downstairs at 4:30, followed by dinner until 10. We showed up and Lisa had already been drinking margaritas (without me!) by the pool and was in the right state of mind to have to deal with what would follow. It was so boring she entertained herself by making snowmen out of cheese.
The retreat started by having a Navy Psychologist who has written a book about her time in a hospital in Iraq speak. This would have been wonderful, except for the fact that no one wanted to listen to her talk about people getting killed and the soldier she couldn't keep alive. She then proceeded to read not one but TWO chapters out of her book. Needless to say no one was very happy. The guys have just gotten back from war, and they did not want to be listening to a lady telling them how horrible it was for her. So much for family reintegration! Then some man got up and started singing what sounded like a song out of a musical, and poor Charlotte did not like the noise. It was so loud! Brian held a blanket over her ears to muffle the noise!
Part of the catch to getting us to go was that there would be famous people there. There were two Medal of Honor winners, which was pretty neat, but then there were the movie stars, well just Jon Voight. He was very nice and insisted on taking a picture with us after Bill told him how badly Chris wanted a picture with him. Chris was not very happy. Chris kept joking that he was going to get up and have people come take pictures with him! It was nice of Jon Voight to show up, but when you really think about it, our guys put their lives on the line for our country, make crap for money, and hardly get recognized(which they would actually prefer). Then there are the movie stars, who play our guys in movies, and make millions. Go figure. Anyway, here we are with Jon Voight... and Bill.
Bill finally decided he wanted to hold Charlotte. Who could be afraid of a baby as sweet as her!
After dinner some country music performer got up and started playing and it was so loud it was like a concert. Charlotte started screaming and we decided it was the end of the mandatory fun. Chris was not very happy with the whole situation and we couldn't imagine a night of no sleep followed by morning of similar fun filled activities, so we proceeded to leave our hotel room and drive back home. Charlotte was much happier with this plan and slept last night for 6 hours straight!!! It was so nice of her! This morning I got up and hung her diapers and wipes out on the line and thought they looked so neat out in the sun! It is a gorgeous day, and we are much happier being home!
For more on our fun filled retreat, check out Lisa's blog!
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