Happy 4th of July!!!

Living on an Air Force Base has definitely opened my eyes what freedom really means.  I am reminded of it at least 2x a day and in other occasions.  For instance, when a movie is showing on base, before the movie starts everybody stands up for the national anthem.  At 1700 and 2200 hours the national anthem and taps play.  If people are driving they must pull over and stop.  If you happen to be outside you must stand at attention.  Our dog is even patriotic!  She howls everyday at those hours:)  I am definitely grateful to have a husband who works so hard everyday to preserve that freedom I know I would otherwise take for granted.

This past July 4th the RV was in front of a huge park where everyone gathered.  Lots of people came for a fireworks show that shot from just about 200meters down the street from the park.  We got front row seats!

We watched them from the car since we were being attacked by lots and lots of bugs!

Being silly

They played patriotic music the whole time the fireworks went off.  The show couldn't even start till about 10:30 or so when it actually started getting dark.  We ate enchiladas and rice (yes I know not super patriotic) and Andrew even had a friend over earlier.  We might not have the best situation, the living situations, bugs, and flooding but at least we are together on a holiday really special to our family.

 Happy Independence Day from all of us!

Love,

The Andersons

Anniversary Weekend

Again, it has taken me so long to update this blog.  Not really my fault since we are still living in an RV with no Internet access other than the library.  Tonight is laundry night so we head over to lodging on base to do it and of course they have Wi-fi so win-win:) Anywho...the weekend of the 19th Andrew and I decided to go to Bismarck to celebrate our anniversary. We stayed at the Radisson and because Andrew is military we got a room way, way cheaper.  So nice pool, spa the works!

 Never, ever, before coming to North Dakota did I ever believe I would go to its capital.  I mean honestly not many people are like "man, I think some day I am going to visit the capital of North Dakota"...I certainly didn't.  Yet there I was in the capital city.  Honestly it is not that much bigger than Minot, maybe a few more shops and restaurants.  Andrew actually had something planned out of what we were going to do before hand.  We got there and literally everything big was closed, Lewis and Clark Riverboat and the zoo because of the flooding.  We picked the wrong weekend to go down there.  So, besides that we didn't know what else to do.  I went online to see what else there was to do...I found out about the cultural center near the state capital building. 

I wish I had taken a picture because it is probably the worst capital building I had ever seen...but the cultural center was actually really fun!  Surprisingly, it made for a fun day.  I even learned about the Walleye- this is a fish. 

I had to put this picture in because if you look in the background there is a buffalo statue.  Pretty much what North Dakota was known for (yes buffalo and wheat are on the state license plates).

But other than that we couldn't find anything else.  Until we just decided to see where the zoo was a found a mini park.  In the park was like an amusement park or fair or something.  I was very kiddie but we decided to have fun anyways.  Turned out to be pretty awesome!

 This slide ended up being the best part!

The kiddie roller coaster.  Very much worth it



 Us on the Ferris wheel which we rode forever since nobody else was in line...

Here are some other random pics from our trip.......

Last but not least were the present we gave to each other.  Some were silly but others very thoughtful! 

 The card I got him.  Something about of all the fish in the sea I am glad I hooked up with you haha

An appropriate gift for all old men....nose and ear hair trimmer!

He wasn't too happy about it so he showed me his nose.

 A classic Andrew face.  He was VERY excited about his new game

Overall what could have been an extremely lame vacation ended up being a very fun weekend. I guess attitude really is everything.

Love,

The Andersons