Well my day just got better by 100000000% . Joe(my son) just called us from France where he stationed at the moment before he moves on to "Who Knows Where" while deployed overseas. He says he's doing GREAT & has even been given 18hrs worth of shore leave since he had been on Shore Patrol Duty for the past 2days. It was great to hear his happy & excited voice once again. He said the country is amazing but the roads & drivers are crazy. He talked about how small the roads are & how he could never drive his truck down them because of their size. He also told us he was asked to leave a shopping mall because he was drinking. He told us you can drink basicly ANYWHERE in France but the malls so they asked him to kindly leave, which made no difference to him.
The one thing that just shocked the holy living cr@p outta me was that it cost him $28.26 a minute to talk to us. You would think that the US Goverment would have some kind of phone network for the military people. I guess we're going to have to find some Universal European phone cards for that guy so it doesn't cost so dang much to call home to us.