Last week Thursday, I drove down to Bangor to meet hubby and also to pick him up since it was his last official day in the Navy. After 28 long years of military service, it’s finally over.

Since I’ve never driven down to Bangor before, I kept asking everyone if it was easy to find. I always get antsy and anxious when I’m going to drive somewhere unfamiliar to me. I spent the previous days mapping out my route, purchasing ferry tickets and just getting prepared for the trip. I loved the drive through Port Townsend and neighboring small towns on the way there. We saw old buildings, tons of livestock and even buffalos. How cool was that?

When we got there, the first thing we did after picking hubby up was getting our new ID cards that shows we are now retired. I looked at Meg’s ID and told her the “RET” on her ID card stood for RETARDED and the “RET” on our cards stood for RETIRED. She’s so retarded that she asked to see if that’s what it really said on our ID cards.

It was nice seeing hubby again after not seeing him for a few weeks. Kamalani stuck to him like fly on sh.. You get the picture, don’t you? She wouldn’t leave his side. He took her grocery shopping then to the NEX and she suckered him into buying more toys. We went out to dinner then went back to the Navy Lodge to take our showers and went to bed. It was such a long day and an even longer career that finally came to an end.