Gilligan's Island Suitcase Style

I woke up this morning completely excited to see my belongings today.  I held back and called the AMC counter at 7 this morning.  The man I spoke with told me that there was a note saying that it was not on the plane and will be on a plane next Monday from Korea.  He asked me to call him back while he tracked down the writer of the note...so I called back and he said that he's been calling all over the pacific/Seattle trying to find my suitcase.  Exactly which landmass in the Pacific is my suitcase on?  I told him that I was told that it was in Korea ...and now we don't know where it is?  He said he wasn't sure and that I should call back in the afternoon.  SCREAM!  As it turns out the bag is in Korea and to go along with the theme of this move here...someone didn't do their job and put it on the plane.  The next mission from Korea is on Thursday.  Everyone please say some prayers that my suitcase makes it on this plane...please!  One week down with beyond minimal clothes.  I have to attend a week long class (AOB) and at the end is the driving test...but I have to be here to accept the suitcase.  I have signed up for this class next week with Kat and Dixie..so hopefully all of our prayers will be answered and the suitcase comes on Thursday or Friday.  Zack came home yesterday and announced that he's pretty sure that he's been sweating since the moment he stepped off of the plane last week.  It made me giggle because it's true...he then stuffed his third t-shirt of the day into the dirty clothes bag!  Noah and I did one load of laundry this morning and saving the second load for tomorrow so that I can wear the shorts I'm wearing now(my only pair of shorts) to the housing appt. in the afternoon.  We then headed over to the CDC(child development center) to attend the mandatory orientation.  I will be staying home with Noah but it's also mandatory for hourly care(less than 25hrs a week)...so that stay at home parents can attend appointments, clean the house, go shopping without children...etc.  And for bonus one Saturday and month they are open from 5-12pm so parents can have date night!  How amazing is that!  There was one other mom, Dixie, also attending the orientation with her 5mth old daughter...they were also on the plane with us from Seattle.  Noah was entertaining her in the airport with his antics.  We exchanged room numbers and chatted....and spoke about getting together soon.  She also said that they went out in town and were a bit overwhelmed...she also asked if we took a stroller.  I said that we did and we discussed how there must not be any handicap accessibility laws b/c it is completely not stroller friendly...glad that I wasn't the only one who noticed this!  She said that they also have a jogging stroller and if they took it out in town it would be the Godzilla on the street...actually have not seen any Japanese parents pushing a stroller...but then again most only have one and at max two children.  They just carry them on their hips.  We have a double stroller to use after bean is born...it will be interesting using it in town!  I spoke with one of the teacher's of Noah's room and she went over the procedures, "safe food", and schedule of the room....they also do signing there!  We then walked down the hall so I could see the room...Noah immediately took off and was climbing on the toys in the room...he threw a fit when it was time to leave.  We walked over on Friday so I could fill out some paperwork and Noah fussed the entire time in the lobby and today he was playing with the toys...trying to escape down the hallway...and then threw a fit when he had to leave the room.  I will be taking him there Thursday morning so that I can attend my OB appointment.  I'm thinking that he shouldn't throw too much of a fit when I leave!  I also was connected to another wife here, Heather, who is from the Huntingburg area...so Operation Find A Friend has two new prospects!  The forecast outlook for the next week is highs in the 90's...the CO(Captain of the Base..Captain Owen)...mentioned in this weeks video message about how this will be the test for the base's energy conservation efforts...so I guess we shall see how we do.  Zack complains about how hot it is in the room...even compared to the hallway...but I looked and their thermostat is set at the same temperature as ours...25 degrees Celsius...77 degrees.  I remind him that he's going to have to suck it up because if everyone cranked it down then we won't have any electricity.  The Captain's wife is Japanese...and his wife's cousin went missing after the disaster and he gave the update this week that a body was verified to be hers by DNA.  Four months later his wife has closure about her missing cousin.  Just absolutely nuts...and completely sad.  And then the survivors of the disaster in the north keep having small to moderate earthquakes and tsunami warnings...I know that his is all a part of God's plan...but can't these people catch a break?  Noah went down for a nap super well this afternoon...with hardly any fighting.  I'm glad that we've made a lot of progress in only a week...sleeping through the night again and now doing nap well.  Zack has said that by the time he gets comfortable/adjusted here...we might have housing and we'll have to start the process all over again.  This is true but it will hopefully be the last move for us for a while.  I've asked Zack if he wanted to be a guest writer on our blog for a day and he declined the honor...but hopefully he'll come around...eventually!  We do have cable TV and enjoyed a Harry Potter marathon yesterday on ABC Family...there are maybe 15-20 American cable channels.  We haven't quite figured out how far behind we are...maybe 24hrs?  Anyone out there know when Harry Potter marathon was in the U.S?  We have some of the most important channels for our family..History, TLC, FX, and ABC Family...and PBS and a few Disney cartoons available as well.  Of the Navy mandated to do list we only have the passports left(the office was closed by the time Zack got back yesterday).  And then a few little to do that have popped up as bi-products of the master to do list...again can you imagine one sheet of 8.5x10 sheet of paper having so much power?!  Housekeeping always makes it to our hallway during nap time unless we are out and about during nap time.  I have just taken to asking the lady for what we need and exchanging the items.  They use the same sheets, vacuum and other items that I used at my summer's at Santa's Lodge...they however could use a lesson in folding sheets especially fitted....they could fit so much more on the cart neatly! LOL  Today we needed new sheets for our beds.  I went out and asked and their eyes got big when I said that I'll just take them..."you mean your going to change your own sheets?"...."Yes, I am...and I'll bring you the dirty ones"..."They exchange looks and say...oh".  Doesn't anyone else around here change their own sheets?  I'd wash them along with our laundry except it would probably cost me an extra 2 dollars to wash and dry them.  When we were out in town, Sunday, Noah didn't have shoes on b/c it was hot and he didn't get out of the stroller...and once we got on base he was walking barefoot on the concrete and grass around the bus stop.  A Japanese woman said.."Oh, my...no shoes?"...I informed her that we're lucky to get him to put clothes on in the morning!  She just giggled.  Well today Noah took a nap in just his diaper and woke up when I was getting ready to take housekeeping our old sheets so I had to take him with me(I did wrap his blankie around his diaper)...they commented while laughing..."naked baby".  Zack and I have both said that Noah would be perfectly fine being completely naked all the time!  These people should just be thankful that he at least had a diaper on...as this is often not the case!  Once again it seems the Gogel Family is bucking the system...this time it's changing our own sheets and our child being seen in a diaper and without shoes...what "rules" will we break next!