Thursday, April 19, 2007

Thus Spake Uncle Sam

Finally!

Mindy and I found out yesterday where our next duty assignment will be...drum roll...Baumholder, Germany! I posted a long diatribe about it on our blog, but long story short, I will probably deploy from there sometime in the next six months. The unit I'm going to is supposed to deploy sometime in that window, but nothing offcial has come out, and if I know my employers, nothing will come out until after the perfect time has come and gone. We're excited about the move to Europe, but it doesn't look like we'll get too much time to spend there before I leave and Mindy comes back to the states, since it's pretty pointless for her to stay other than to sightsee for 15 months (yes, I'm really looking forward to that). Needless to say it will be an interesting year for the three of us. We do get to stay around Georgia until the beginning of July, and if I get the leave time, I'll report to Germany at the end of July- sorry Jeremy, it looks like I might miss the wedding. I'll be sure to send a towel set, or something else appropriately useless. ;)

Keep us all in your prayers, as there are lots of unknowns right now.

In other news, Luke dances! OK, not really, but this picture Dad took last weekend makes it look like he does.
It's kind of an Ickey Shuffle or something... Here's another one of the Steve Scotts, with some stranger that wanted to join in the group photo. Oh, I'm sorry, that's Randy. Grandpa made us keep him in the picture, even though he's not really family.
Salaam! (I'm brushing up...)

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Wedding Plans

Well, August 4 is coming closer and Jer and Amy are busy with all kinds of planning. While it is still a few months away, I wanted to let you know about motel housing arrangements. I will send emails to as many addresses as I can locate but wanted to get this information up as soon as possible. We have reserved a block of rooms at the Hyatt Place hotel in Hendersonville. These are suite rooms. Marcia and I stayed there a year or so ago when it was Amerisuites. Breakfast is included. The rooms are King Suites.

The cost is $129 per night plus tax. This does not include any discounts for which you may be eligible (AAA, AARP, etc.). Simply ask for the rate for the Scott/Shrode wedding and let them know what discounts you qualify for.

The phone # for Hyatt Place is 1-615-826-4301

The rooms are blocked for August 3 & 4 but if you wish to reserve on either end of those dates, the same rates will hold.

The rates will be good until July 3. If you have any questions, please let me know.

We are getting excited.