Saturday night in Temple, Texas

It's Saturday night in Temple, Texas, where we are staying for the weekend. It was the closest place to Killeen we could get where we could use Michael's Marriott points for our room.

As luck would have it, the main road that runs in front of the hotel is completely torn up - you have to use the frontage roads to get around. We completely missed seeing the hotel when we first got here.

It has been hot this weekend but everywhere we've been, they run the AC so cold that I've been freezing.

Nathan told us Friday after we got to the post that there wasn't really anything to do around here. Turns out he was right. There's not much around here. If Ft. Hood wasn't in this area, there really wouldn't be much here. I thought Ft. Carson was big, but Ft. Hood seems to be a lot bigger. They have two PX's and mini-malls and food courts.

I get amused by the names of some of the streets in Ft. Hood. The street where all of the motor pools are located is Hell on Wheels Avenue. There was another I thought was funny but my memory is failing me at the moment!

We get to spend part of the day with Nathan tomorrow. Have to get on the road by 2:00 to get back to the Waco airport and turn in the rental car and get our bags checked. It's a very small airport so I don't think it will be as big an issue to get through security as it was in Atlanta.

It's been nice to visit with him this weekend. Just felt it was something I needed to do before he's deployed. His unit starts leaving on June 27 and they will all be out by July 1.