Imperial Palace cont'd...

More and more and more and more.... now everyone can have a vacation!! Lol

Imperial Palace cont'd....

The last ones!! Wasn't it a beautiful tour, tho?!
Top to Bottom: Myself and Doc Jennifer Conlin!; the rest are just pics of the palace!

Floating Market and WWII Bridge!

We rode in the canals in a little mini speed boat to get to a floating market and then we went to eat lunch on the river near a bridge built in WW II!!! OUTSTANDING!! Makes for good pics!

From Top to Bottom: On our way to the Floating Market; Monks on the WWII Bridge ( Monks are VERY revered in Thailand!!); Genao taking pictures on the way to the Floating Market; the WWII Bridge; Marianne ( Flitter) and I on the Bridge!

What a view!!

God didn't make too many views like this!! Only the Rockies have a better view!! And this was totally worth seeing!! Too bad we didn't see any of the wild tigers out there! :-(

Elephant Rides!

We went riding on Elephants!! It was soooooo cool! They were so friendly and soft, sorta like hairy sandpaper! But so cute and loveable!! And I got to feed a monkey peanuts too!

More pix from the Elephant Rides!!

You can NEVER have too many pix of a good thing! ;-)
p.s. Stephy Girl, guess what my elephant's name was?! RAINBOW!

COMREL at the girl's school!

We went and did a COMREL (community relations) project today! We went to one of the orphanage/schools in Korat! Now, the pix here are just of us Marines. For the safety of the children, we will not be displaying any of their pictures. :-)

Top to bottom: Capt Cunningham; LCpl Davis, Cpl Nielson, and Cpl Coleman (they were demonstrating the 3-legged race!); LCpl Hogue, being our American Eagle model!; me and my roommate Flitter!; me and Eli (coleman!) lookin good in shades... lol... ;-)

Major Trouslot's last flight!

Today was one of our best pilot's last flight with VMFA-212! We sure a re gonna miss you Sir! Good luck in your next command! Oohrah!

Setting up Shop!

Whew! We have made it and are settin up shop! Thailand is AWESOME so far! If only I could bring you all here with me! Talk to you all as soon as I can! Miss and love you all! ~ Jess

Thailand!

Well, we are off to Thailand!! I will miss you all terribly!! I promise I will buy you cool stuff! Lol! I should be back within the month! I'll try to post as often as I can, but, it will depend on how busy we get! But, I do love and will miss you all! Call as soon as I get back! Muah! ~ And as soon as we get back, I request orders! YES!! 121 here I come! Keep your fingers crossed!

Good Luck, Josh!!

Everyone say a little prayer for Josh as he goes thru a tough 7 weeks of Sgt's course!! He will do awesome, I know, but, I'm sure it will be very stressful! So, please keep him in your prayers!
Josh ~ I know you can do it! You will come back all motto and have the best hair cut ever! lol! Just, don't change too much from the Josh I like! :-) I miss talking to you and I am praying for you everyday! I will try to call from Thailand! I miss you!! ~ Jess

Happy Best Friends Forever Day!!!!

To: My Best Friends in the Entire World!
From: Your Jess
MUAH!!!! Annie, do you remember making this day years ago?! Do you remember why we made it? I was living "far away" at the time, and we didn't want our friendship to suffer! :-) I have always seemed to live far away, huh?! but, you two have always been right there for me! All of the time! I love you very much!

Girls, are we doomed to failure?!

Ya know, it has always been in my nature to give ppl the benefit of the doubt; give them the chance to prove themselves before judgment. But, once you watch so much crap happen, you eventually just don't trust anyone for any reason and suspect everyone of everything. Now, I'm sure I have confused you all right about now. So, lemme break it all down for you...
I have a friend who is a very honest and kind person. She has a great personality and a thirst for life. And she is the type of person that when she loves somebody, she loves them with all she has. There's no holding back with her. Unlike me; I'm so afraid of being hurt AGAIN, that I push everyone away and lock away the "love" part of my heart. It takes me FOREVER to say I love you. And I won't say it if I don't mean it. That's just the way I am. She loves to date and meet ppl because she is searching for her soulmate. Me, I am just hoping he will find me. And I watch her go thru heartbreak after heartbreak. If my heart broke as much as hers did, I wouldn't be able to put together all the pieces. But, despite all the bad days, she has great ones too. She believes in moving on and enjoying life. Yet, I see everything these guys put her thru. The charm, the "heart felt apologies", the roses & candies... but, did they even mean any of it?! Or was it all sweet talk just to find someone to sleep with? I mean, guys say that "they're different". But, different from whom? So far, they are all the same... you find me one who is truely different, (ha!) and I'll be sure to marry him...

TIRED!!

CGI goes today and tomorrow! And I am tired!! Went to bed at 11 last night and then I woke up at 2:30 this morning! Now I'm exhausted! Can't ya tell?! Lol, well, gotta get back to work! Muah!
~ This me and Cpl Walz (powerline) just chillin in the shop, waitin for launches.

The 212 CHAMP!!

Hello everybody!! Well, here I am again!! Sorry it's been a while! We are CrAzY busy at work!! Whew! It's Saturday and everybody is at work until around 1300! Then we have our Squadron Picnic today!! I really wanna go! But, unfortunately, I have duty today. :-( And I really wanted to go! Sigh* Oh, well. We do what we have to do!
Not to much to tell about here! Japan is starting to warm up! That's the great part! And our squadron Cruise Books are here!! Yea! They turned out really nice!!
So, all in all, things are going well over here! I miss you all and love you all very much!! I hope to talk to you all very soon!
Love from Far Away!
~Jessie

Ruth... my favorite Bible character....

I love this ring! I found it on James Avery @ jamesavery.com yee!!! :-) Isn't it beautiful?! Wanna know what it says?!
"Whither thou goest, I will follow".....

Also, I love the "Lover's Knot". Doncha just love James Avery?! Whew! I could go on all day about the great stuff there!!