Hi everyone,
Here is the first post from Garry from Seattle! I'll be adding more soon! Happy New Year
Garry
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Mariner Moose Gives me my Christmas Party invitation!
This picture is when we had Mariner Moose in the office handing out our Holiday Party invitations at work! Only a couple more weeks till Christmas!
We had our party this last Saturday and it was a blast. We held the party at Safeco Field in the diamond club. We were able to tour the facility and walk onto the field (not the grass) and try to bat in the batting cage and try our hand at pitching, which I should never do again! Trina is much better.
Kevin
We had our party this last Saturday and it was a blast. We held the party at Safeco Field in the diamond club. We were able to tour the facility and walk onto the field (not the grass) and try to bat in the batting cage and try our hand at pitching, which I should never do again! Trina is much better.
Kevin
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Photos from Helo Trip to Bagram Airfield
Ready to lift off in our Blackhawk.
Here I am on the tarmac at Bagram Airfield. Beautiful day and snow covered mountains in the background.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Salam Alekum from Afghanistan
Sorry I missed Kevin's original advertisement that we now have a Wilson Family Blog. Travis drew my attention to it in a recent phone call. Thanks Kevin for doing this. It's a great idea. It's something we should have done long ago.
Anyway, we are surviving in Kabul, Afghanistan. Looking forward to seeing the Kamas crew in a couple of weeks. As most of you might know by now, we have rented a townhouse for a week in Park City where the (now extended) Andy Wilson clan can spend the Holidays together. We are planning lots of activities to do together as a family; skiing, snowmobiling, board (bored) games, daily brunch team cooking competition, foosball, football, hot-tubbing, etc. Should be a blast. Hope to have some good times and create some good memories.
Afghanistan is cooling off. Haven't had any snow in Kabul yet, though the mountains around us are all snowbound. Kyoko and I stay plenty busy in our jobs. We both work nearly 70 hours per week; 6-day workweeks. We (especially Kyoko) spend 98% of our time on the walled, barb-wired, armed-guarded Emassy compound. I get out occasionally for meetings, but Kyoko only gets out for Church--when she doesn't have to work. Friday (Muslim sabbath) is our day off when we attend church at nearby Camp Eggers. We attend the LDS Servicemen's Group there. We have about 25-30 regular members. Kyoko is RS Prez, with only two women in the entire Group, one of whom is currently home on a three-month leave, so that leaves Kyoko as the entire RS.
We've had a number of security-related incidents. On our fourth day in Kabul, a rocket hit about 100 meters from the Embassy. No one was hurt, but the loud boom nearly rocked us out of bed. We often have IED attacks (car bombs) in our neighborhood, when any nonessential travel is forbidden, and we have to stay inside the Embassy compound. Boring.
Hope you are all well. Let's keep this Blog going. Continue to get the word out so others will start contributing.
Andy
Anyway, we are surviving in Kabul, Afghanistan. Looking forward to seeing the Kamas crew in a couple of weeks. As most of you might know by now, we have rented a townhouse for a week in Park City where the (now extended) Andy Wilson clan can spend the Holidays together. We are planning lots of activities to do together as a family; skiing, snowmobiling, board (bored) games, daily brunch team cooking competition, foosball, football, hot-tubbing, etc. Should be a blast. Hope to have some good times and create some good memories.
Afghanistan is cooling off. Haven't had any snow in Kabul yet, though the mountains around us are all snowbound. Kyoko and I stay plenty busy in our jobs. We both work nearly 70 hours per week; 6-day workweeks. We (especially Kyoko) spend 98% of our time on the walled, barb-wired, armed-guarded Emassy compound. I get out occasionally for meetings, but Kyoko only gets out for Church--when she doesn't have to work. Friday (Muslim sabbath) is our day off when we attend church at nearby Camp Eggers. We attend the LDS Servicemen's Group there. We have about 25-30 regular members. Kyoko is RS Prez, with only two women in the entire Group, one of whom is currently home on a three-month leave, so that leaves Kyoko as the entire RS.
We've had a number of security-related incidents. On our fourth day in Kabul, a rocket hit about 100 meters from the Embassy. No one was hurt, but the loud boom nearly rocked us out of bed. We often have IED attacks (car bombs) in our neighborhood, when any nonessential travel is forbidden, and we have to stay inside the Embassy compound. Boring.
Hope you are all well. Let's keep this Blog going. Continue to get the word out so others will start contributing.
Andy
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