The last leg of our trip took us to Dover, Delaware, where we would visit with friends and wait for a Space-A flight to bring us back to Spain. We love Dover as we've been stationed there twice, first as newlyweds with a baby to follow, and later as parents of two children and my husband in command for the first time. Dover will always be special to us.
Our original plan was to get on a flight upon our arrival in Dover, but that didn't happen, and now I can't even remember why. We ended up getting a room on base and visited with good friends in the area...
Here I am in the passenger terminal with R, my girlfriend for the last 7 years. She's a riot and I love spending time with her! No matter what else might be going on in her world as a mom of four kids, she always manages to make time for her friends. We found ourselves sitting in Dover for a few days waiting for a flight, and during that time we had dinner at a new restaurant in town with friends who traveled a couple of hours to visit with us. Another girlfriend in the area surprised us by stopping by the restaurant to hang out for a while. We also visited good friends at their home for a few hours.
My hubby got to play golf with a few local military types while the boys and I went to R's house where we had lunch and the kids played together as if 3 years hadn't passed since they'd last seen one another. Another local girlfriend stopped by with her son for a quick visit.
Here's the whole gang of kiddos. D always manages to strike some sort of goofy pose... just part of his quirky sense of humor. The one missing kiddo was R's youngest daughter, who was napping.
This time all the kids made some kind of goofy face or gesture... with the exception of R's oldest son. He was the only "normal" one.Visiting with friends was great and we enjoyed our time in Dover, but the next part of the story points out how much our oldest is growing up...
We'd gone to the base housing pool while in limbo in Dover. We met a very nice couple traveling with their kids to Rota on vacation. They'd been to Rota before and we discovered we had mutual friends. It's definitely a small world, especially among miltary folks.
This couple had a daughter D's age and they hit it off at the pool... big time. D's never seemed particularly interested in girls, or if he was, he'd never admit it. When we asked him about meeting A at the pool, he said she was nice and pretty. I asked him if they were flirting with one another and he totally 'fessed up. He didn't even hesitate!
As it turned out, A's family and ours ended up on the same flight to Rota. D and A sat together on the plane and they chatted and watched movies the whole way. It was all very cute. They exchanged email addresses and have been corresponding a little over the last month.
And YES, I have invaded my child's privacy and read the emails these two have sent one another. I consider it part of my job as a parent to eavesdrop, but of course I didn't tell him this. I just reminded him that he needs to be sure he's behaving appropriately on the internet because whatever one puts in print is there for eternity and anybody can read it. It's for his protection as well as the protection of the person(s) with whom he's corresponding.
I won't share with you the conversations these two kids have had, as that would be more than an invasion of privacy. I don't want to completely embarrass my kid unnecessarily, but let's just say he's rather the smooth talker (Gets that from his dad) and he's definitely taken notice of the female species. Heaven help us!
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