San Antonio Day 2

Our 2nd day at Lackland was Matt's graduation ceremony and parade. It was such a neat thing to see all the flights march and all the guys/girls take the official pledge....it was very emotional. The parade grounds were surrounded by old planes...Caleb enjoyed looking at all of them. It was really hard to pick Matt out of the group again...this time he was in the middle instead of near the front.

All the flights at the beginning of the ceremony


Our friend Michelle was easy to spot b/c she was on the end


This is Matt's flight between the two flags


After the ceremony was over we again were allowed to "tap our Airmen out" and then they were allowed to take us to the barracks and show us around. The kids enjoyed seeing where Matt had lived (and ate and studied). The accommodations were sparse but boy were they clean. The kids thought it was so cool.

Matt's home for 9 weeks.


Matt's bed...it looked so uncomfortable


Everything was organized and had to be done a certain way...if not there were consequences




The shower...the kids couldn't believe it was just a room with 8 shower heads in the wall. Caleb said "you had to shower with a bunch of strangers!"


After touring the dorms Matt was released for a half day in town. We went back to our resort and enjoyed just hanging out. Matt enjoyed taking a real shower for the first time in 9 weeks...he said they were only given a short time to take a shower and that the water pressure and temp was pitiful. Matt asked for steak for dinner so we enjoyed a wonderful meal at Longhorn Steakhouse before dropping him back at the base for then evening. It was a wonderful day. I didn't get any pictures of our afternoon off base b/c I was busy enjoying spending time with Matt.