I am finally out of Iraq!  Hooray.

Uneventful flight, I fell asleep before we started rolling down the runway and I woke up when we touched down 20 songs later on my iPod.  Thank goodness for my iPod! 

It is strange being back in Kuwait when it’s not 180°…we are staying in the tent next to the tent we stayed in when we came through in June.  It’s freeeeezing outside now - 40° after spending months in the extreme heat is a huge change. 

There was a huge “charlie foxtrot” when we arrived here and I was almost going back to the U.S. to outprocess in Fort Jackson but fortunately (very fortunately), after a few hours of arguing, we got ourselves back on track and we (we being me and my friend who is stationed in Spain) will be back on Saturday as originally planned.

I will write more again in the upcoming days; I need to go to sleep and catch up on the sleep I didn’t get last night because I was up all night packing and moving and goofing around since it got to that point of being too late to go to sleep.

I’m glad to be out of Baghdad where there’s a few less things to worry about.