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Well, the day started early for some. Kyce spent the night with us last night. We made a pallet out of the bed comforters and he sacked out early. The rest of us weren't far behind. Beause of that, Kyce was awake at 4:00am....and reading up on a new game that comes out this next November (what an overachiever), Delma was up at 5:30 and me soon after. Delma and I decided we would take the laundry and get it done before Mom and Aunt Carole got up. Off we go.
Got to the laundromat at 6:40am. Wouldn't you know, it didn't open up until 7:30am. What's up with that in a military town!! So off to McDonald's we went for a bite to eat. Then back to a different laundromat closer to McDonald's. We got the laundry loaded and happily set there reading a book and playing computer games. Apparently that is a really popular place because people were eagle-eyeing machines waiting for people to move on to the dryers. There was this one machine that had clothes in it and no one seemed to know who they belonged to. Delma and I knew we had 5 loads, so it wasn't ours. We got the clothes dried, folded and headed back to the hotel.
As we were deciding what to wear tomorrow (we still have 2 more look-a-like shirts), I couldn't find my black capris. Mom couldn't find her pants and Aunt Carole was missing a brown pair of pants. Could we really have left a load of clothes behind; could that unclaimed machine really have been ours? We headed back to the laundromat. And guess what, yep there were our clothes. Delma said I split up a load of clothes; I don't remember putting them in that machine. Oh well, a mystery remains. Don't know what happened, but we were lucky the clothes where still there (unwashed). Back to the motel we go.
Well Aunt Carole and I had dirty clothes that didn't make it in the original laundry trip, so Delma and I went BACK to the laundry to finish up. We started the laundry at 6:40am; we finally wrapped it up around 1:00pm. What a time we had.
Got back to the hotel. Kyce was taking a nap and the ladies were doing their favorite thing -- watching people through the window. We have a bird's eye view of the Tinseltown movie theater. It's been a great source of entertainment. We finally got ready and went to have a late lunch/early dinner at Olive Garden. We had a great meal; but Aunt Carole got to feeling bad. Her blood sugar dropped suddenly and we had to get some milk for her real quick. She decided to go back to the room and rest while we went to the base with Kyce.
Off to the base we go. As we got closer to Ft. Carson, Kyce started singing "please, don't search us; please don't search us". Well, he jinxed us and we got searched. Of course I immediately thought how cool it would be to take pictures of us getting searched. I found out real quick it is a Federal offense and a security risk. NO PICTURES!! Kyce found out his driver's license expired in April. Not a good thing. We all had to exit the vehicle, leave all purses/bags in the pickup and leave the doors open. Well, Delma and I shut our doors....oops! Delma was standing around with her hand in her pocket; that is a big no-no......and don't even THINK about smoking.
The search was finally over, and Delma had to drive. We'll get Kyce back to his barracks tomorrow and leave his pickup parked. Delma is going to figure out what to do about his license.
We did visit Kyce's barracks, took some good pictures and grabbed some pillows, blankets and clean clothes (Kyce was spending another night with us).
Outside Kyce's room.
Kyce beside the flag Delma sent him in Afganistan.
Back to the hotel we go. We are in for the night. Delma bought the latest "True Grit" movie and we are getting ready to enjoy.
More tomorrow.
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