Long awaited blog.

So I never told you girls what happened that day Carlo came back. Or that weekend. HA! 

The day Carlo came back was Tuesday, February 17. I went to go see my friend, Tracey in Pasadena on the way. We went to Starbucks and talked, just catching up with each other. I think it was the first time we saw each other since... summer break?? So a hang out was long overdue. I get a call from Carlo telling me that their flight is delayed due to rain. (Oh, yeah, it was raining that day and on my way to Pasadena I was stuck in almost an hour of traffic on the 71 because of an accident, stupid rubbernecks). Carlo's flight was supposed to arrive at 4 and he told me that he wouldn't be arriving till 6 or 7PM. Tracey had work at 5 so I would have no place to go. I didn't know the Pasadena area. Or Oxnard. Not really anyway. Then Carlo called back and told me they were about to leave the port and arrive as scheduled again. So I got to Point Mugu at 3:45ish. I asked the security guard where they'd be arriving. He gave me bad directions. I was driving around a base I've never been to before. I finally say a guy walking to his car and yelled out, "HEY! Uhhhm, I'm lost. Do you know where the airport is for people coming from deployment is at?" I don't think I actually made sense to him cuz he was asking me questions but he knew what I was talking about. He showed me the terminal where his battalion would be arriving. He went up to the desk and ask the guy working there what time they'd be arriving and the guy said 6:50PM. GAH! They were delayed again!! 

So I waited in the terminal for 3 hours by myself while another battalion was getting ready to leave. I was the pretty much the only person waiting for Carlo's battalion to arrive besides this one woman with a poodle. There was a this one man saying bye to his family and when he went to hug his daughter of maybe 3, she started crying and saying, "Daddy, please don't go! PLEASE don't go Daddy!"It was so sad! I was about to cry! And then when the family walked out of the door, you just hear the little girl start to get hysterical! Poor girl. Around 6PM there wives, girlfriends, and fiances started rolling on in. I was sitting by myself and everyone else was mingling. But I did manage to make friends. LOL. I forgot their names, but one was a wife and pregnant of 7 months. Her husband hasn't seen her belly except for the greatest device made, the webcam. The other was a fiance, newly engaged. I got so jealous. hahah I want to get engaged :( We were asking each other how long each of us were married/going out. We asked which battalion our significant other is in. It was kind of confusing because there were two planes arriving pretty much the same time. The other flight from Spain was expected to arrive at 6:45. We were waiting for the same flight surpsingly.

The three of us went outside to where the soldiers would be arriving. There was a grip of people!!! I didn't know there was that many people in Carlo's battalion. But then again there was the people waiting for Spain. There were these women passing out flowers and little flags and we all felt dumb cuz we didn't get our people anything hahahaha! It was FREEZING! It didn't help that I was wearing my high heeled boots so my toes started to get numb. And to think I was going to wear a dress YEAH RIGHT. We started to see a twinkle in the sky and it was a plane!! Everyone started cheering. But I was thinking, "why are you getting excited, you don't know if your man is on that plane". No one knew which flight it was and the higher ups weren't saying anything to us. Then another plane was landing too! Another 10 minutes pass by and the wife, the fiance, and I were all having a fit! Where are they? Where'd the planes go?! It turned out the landed planes couldnt land next to the crowd until a plane took off. another 10 minutes passed and the two planes rolled up in front of us; one big ass plane and one small ass plane. We were thinking the big ass plane had to be the battalion our men were in. And they were. There was only about 15 men coming out of the small plane hahaha. I felt bad for the people waiting for them because they'd have to get passed the sea of people waiting for the battion coming from Kuwait! So after what seemed like forever, soldiers started to come out of  the huge plane. I kept thinking I'd miss Carlo and he'd walk right pass me. Me and the fiance girl thought we were gonna throw up because of all the suspense and we were just hella nervous! This would be the first time I'd be seeing Carlo since August 2nd! We moved to the front, at the edge to get a good view of all the soldiers walking up. I just kept saying to myself, "Short, Filipino, Dark, Tired-looking.." All the guys walking where tall white boys! I swear Carlo was towards the back of the plane cause that line of men took forever! I finally saw Carlo and didn't think twice. I started running. While I was running I was thinking, The better fucking be him cuz this would just be embarrassing!! AND IT WAS HIM. I threw my arms around him and the first thing he said was, "I missed you too hunnie". The second thing he said was "Don't smell me, I didn't take a shower for 2 days". Nasty Navy men. While we were walking to my car, Carlo would NOT let go of me. I couldn't walk right cuz of him! 

We went to his new house to put some things away and so he could shower and change. We went to the other base so pick up his gear. Then went to get dinner: In-n-Out LOL. And it was goooood! For bedtime, Carlo didn't have a bed and his sheets smelled nasty! So we went to Wal-Mart to buy new bedsheets, pillows, and pillow cases, and we just slept on the floor. With 22 tealight candles around us. We celebrated Carlo's 22nd birthday that night. (Though, his birthday was on feb. 9)

the next day, Carlo had to muster at 8AM while I got ready to go to school. We left together after that. Carlo slept in the car while I went to 2 of my 4 classes. After class we headed to Temecula to surprise Carlo's family. And boy were they surprised. So that night we slept in Temecula. So tired!

Now I'm sad because I didn't take any pictures of Carlo the night he came back. Or the rest of the week together. It never crossed my mind. Plus I left my camera in my car when he arrived. Then for the past month or so I've just been forgetting to get a picture of us together. BUT I finally got a picture of us together!

We went to Melting Pot a couple weeks ago. I took him out. I wish we took a full body shot though, I must admit, I looked good that night! LOL You can't see it, but I wore my pencil skirt that I bought in January. That place if effing expensive! I almost over withdrew! It nice though. Our waitress was nice. When she was around. When she was gone she took forever to come back. We had a three course meal. When we'd be done with one, she'd take FOREVER to come back! They don't need to cook anything, just set up the freakin plate! At the end of the night we got a free fondue meal for next time. We planned to go last Friday, but ended up having movie night and watched Saw V and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. 

So I'm back to honeymoon phase and all I want to do is spend time with Carlo. Sorry I've been MIA. Haven't done a long blog in forever. And I couldn't hang out last weekend because I made plans with old high school classmates on Friday. I've been putting them off since Junior year hahaha. I'm on spring break this week, sort of. I still have class on tuesday and thursday at Palomar. I had work today, on call on thursday, and work on Friday. Ew.