SparkleShan

I had to go on another mission into the city. This time I stopped at the beach. The Persian Gulf wate r is hot! Even Ned wanted to get his feet wet.

A few days ago I had to go on a mission to Kuwait City to bring a fellow soldier to the dentist. My job was the guard the car with the 1 SG . So we took along Ned and it was the prefect opportunity for a Gnome photo Op. Below are some of Ned's adventures in Kuwait City... Of course Ned had to stop for a Bucks while out on town! And of cou rse Ned couldn't resist the Golden arches!

Today my Gnome friend had Taco Bell and a Pina Colda Hawaiin Ice for Lunch. Yummy!

A new Gnome showed up in the mail for me the other day. He has had a few adventures since he has been here so far. This morning he did PMCS on the green Monster. He's checking the oil and all the belts. And here he is inspecting the cleaning job of my M16's bolt.

Well its official , I think that Cedric has flown the coop. I guess he has enough of this shit hole after a week and decided to make a run for it. Ever since I moved from the tents to the PCBs I have not been able to locate the little fella. I searched everywhere he could possibly be with no luck of finding him.

More adventures in the travels of Cedric the Gnome........... He took a 16 hour trip with me on the way to the Middle East. Here is Cedric getting comfy on the plane, for the first 8 hour leg on the trip. We stopped in Germany, but Cedric was still passed out so he didn't come in to the airport with us. But we got some interesting pictures inside the airport. The first in the toilet with a huge push button to flush it. We've arrived at our destination! Amy and I were well rested from the ride! Chaser and Cedric decide to come out and enjoy some sun, sand and hajee water!

I am now back at Fort Dix waiting to get on a plane to get to the desert. It's classified info on what day were are leaving so the First Sergeant isn't allowed to tell us. They are letting us relax and not making us do anything so Cedric and I took an adventure to an old tank on base here.

Emma loved the idea of the traveling Gnome. The first place we brought him was to the movies, when we went to see Iron Man a week ago. Emma took him out of the bag and sat him on the arm rest so that he could watch the movie. It was pretty cute. Although since I left that day and came back a week later, her Gnome is no where to be found. So much for our idea and taking him places with us and taking pictures and sending them to each other. I still have my gnome which will be traveling to the Middle East with me, so I am going to take pictures and send them back to her.

I have been wanting to find some object, a stuffed animal or something of that nature that I can bring with me to different places that I travel to, so I can take pictures of it and send them to Emma. I thought it would be a fun idea to keep Emma and I connected while I am gone for a year. I am currently in Massachusetts at my last phase of Basic Non- Commissioned Officer Course. In the hours of spare time I have I took a trip to Barnes and Nobles, where I found Cedric the traveling Gnome. He even came complete with his own passport.