Memorial Day Weekend
Friday ~ Given the holiday on Monday the army was nice enough to give us an extra day off. My roommate just moved out so I used the extra day off to move in the rest of my stuff that I had stashed away in storage. I got some grocery shopping done and since it was raining again, all our softball games got cancelled.
Saturday ~ We had a visiting Aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln in port this weekend so we tried to have a softball tournament. But history has a way of repeating itself and like all other tournaments we have had scheduled on a weekend this one was rained out. The team had breakfast together and then went our separate ways. I went back to the rooma and watched the NBA Semi-Finals and took a well needed nap. This was the last day to turn in my Business Managment Final so I figured I would get started. Procrastination has become something of a habit for me. It works because i got an A on it and a B+ for the final grade. The night was capped off with a nice BBQ outside the barracks.
Sunday ~ The rain held off late Saturday and we only had scarce cloud cover so the sporting events were still held. My friends form one of the ships played a couple soccer games and at 2 we gathered about 14 guys from 4 different teams and created a flag football team to play a team from the Lincoln. All of us hadn't ever played together so we were a little worried. But we all knew the job we had to do and suprisingly we played well together and won 26-18. The Linclon even had their own rugby team and was scheduled to play a local japanese team after our game. Never seeing a game before me and a couple friends stayed to watch. Let me tell you I haven't had more fun watching a game in any sport than this. The local Sasebo team was out sized completely but those little guys were relentless and quick. Kamikaze would be a word I would use to describe them, they were going straight in for the tackles against guys at least 100 pounds heavier than them.
Monday ~ I finished season 5 of the TV series '24' in the morning and by the time my friends all woke up the sun was out and the weather was great.. Six of us grabbed our towels and drove down to the local beach about 15 minutes away and spent a few hours on it just enjoying one of the rare nice sunny days. It was a nice day just to be lazy out by the water and enjoy even more time off. It was a good weekend.
Saturday ~ We had a visiting Aircraft carrier, the USS Lincoln in port this weekend so we tried to have a softball tournament. But history has a way of repeating itself and like all other tournaments we have had scheduled on a weekend this one was rained out. The team had breakfast together and then went our separate ways. I went back to the rooma and watched the NBA Semi-Finals and took a well needed nap. This was the last day to turn in my Business Managment Final so I figured I would get started. Procrastination has become something of a habit for me. It works because i got an A on it and a B+ for the final grade. The night was capped off with a nice BBQ outside the barracks.
Sunday ~ The rain held off late Saturday and we only had scarce cloud cover so the sporting events were still held. My friends form one of the ships played a couple soccer games and at 2 we gathered about 14 guys from 4 different teams and created a flag football team to play a team from the Lincoln. All of us hadn't ever played together so we were a little worried. But we all knew the job we had to do and suprisingly we played well together and won 26-18. The Linclon even had their own rugby team and was scheduled to play a local japanese team after our game. Never seeing a game before me and a couple friends stayed to watch. Let me tell you I haven't had more fun watching a game in any sport than this. The local Sasebo team was out sized completely but those little guys were relentless and quick. Kamikaze would be a word I would use to describe them, they were going straight in for the tackles against guys at least 100 pounds heavier than them.
Monday ~ I finished season 5 of the TV series '24' in the morning and by the time my friends all woke up the sun was out and the weather was great.. Six of us grabbed our towels and drove down to the local beach about 15 minutes away and spent a few hours on it just enjoying one of the rare nice sunny days. It was a nice day just to be lazy out by the water and enjoy even more time off. It was a good weekend.
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