Adventures at Gordon

We live in Georgia now. Against our will, but it could definitely be worse. We stayed in a hotel for the first week we were here. We now have a great new apartment that's close to everything we'd want to go to; shopping, restaurants, post, the hospital. In Clarksville everything is so spread out. It takes 20 minutes to get to anywhere you might want to go except what's on post. Here, in 20 minutes we can be ordering appetizers! That's a really nice change. Our apartment is taking some getting used to. We haven't paid electricity in 3 years and I kept my old place frigid, let me tell you. Ask anyone. My good friend Anna called my house The Refrigerator. Here, we keep it on about 70, maybe a few degrees below, and the sun in the afternoon heats it up to 80. I think we need blackout curtains. Maybe our air doesn't work as well as it should, either. We're doing a wait and see thing to see if we need to report it to management. Also, we're upstairs. We have to constantly remind Libby to use her "quiet feet." My apartment actually reminds me a lot of my sister's. The layout is very similar. We have a little deck and a sliding glass door which is pretty but it lets in too much heat and it takes away a wall of the living room. We're going to have to put at least one chair in storage. The girls' rooms are nice and big, though. We haven't gotten delivery of our household goods yet. They wanted to deliver them the 8th, the first Monday we were here, but we hadn't even signed the lease yet, and I hadn't switched the gas and electricity over to my name (which is required for release of keys) and so I said no, figuring that if I relied on it happening then the apartment would fall through, and that I didn't want to go around expecting special treatment just because we're military. Soooo the 22nd it is. We rented a sleeper sofa, a queen-size bed, and a TV from Rent-A-Center to tide us over. It was ridiculously expensive but not nearly as bad as staying in a hotel for two more weeks would have been. Plus this way we can cook. We borrowed some kitchen stuff from ACS.
The other day we went and joined the YMCA and got the girls into swimming lessons and soccer. They're super duper excited. We're going to go this weekend to buy them cleats. Emily kept saying how she didn't want to take swimming lessons (yet she believes she will "float" in deep water!) but once we toured the facility and signed her up she got really excited. She packed her little duffel bag a week early, even. Their lessons start Monday. I'm eager for soccer to start, even though I know it'll be hot as balls. Aaron's wanted them in soccer for almost two years now but the program I would have gone through on Campbell, on post, had terrible communication that pissed me off and required them to be fully vaccinated, no exemptions accepted. I'm really excited that the Y doesn't even mention vaccines. Plus, they have a huge pool, workout room, aerobics classes, and no extra charge childcare for 2-hour blocks at a time, no appointment necessary, for while you work out. The childcare rooms are AWESOME too, dude. The 5-12 age group room has a full-on, Burger King style playcenter. Also, the gymnastics room has open play times so you can come in and let the kids jump on the mats, the pummel horse, the rings, all that stuff. We went to the pool yesterday and they have this big splash park, two kiddie pools with fountains and one big water slide. Emily went 8 times. We went to the mall today and picked up the girls' soccer gear. I don't think there's anything cuter than miniature sports gear, especially when it comes in pink! Tomorrow we're going to go and play all afternoon.
The kids are doing so well. They've adjusted wonderfully to all the changes, they adapted well to being in the hotel room. They are handling their first PCS move with incredible grace. (Well, first that they were really aware what was going on and could voice their feelings on the matter.) I really think they were just cut out to be military brats. I love my brats.