I don't have any pictures of the crowd waiting in line to get in because that was prohibited and there were enough Navy security guys that I wasn't going to take a chance on losing my camera. Suffice it to say, each graduating recruit could invite 4 people. They graduated 978 sailors in this cycle and I think they all invited 4 people and then some. Here's a shot from inside the graduation hall (I forget what it's called):
Okay... this give you an idea of how big the hall is. There are 8 graduating classes today. They do this every Friday - really wild if you think about it. Unfortunately we are setting on the opposite end from John, so we couldn't see him. Funny moment - we had to walk around the building to get to the seats were were at and he marched right past us. No pictures due to the security, but Teresa was all like "LOOK LOOK RIGHT THERE" and they all looked alike to me, it was hilarious. After about an hour, they made the announcement everyone was waiting for ...LIBERTY CALL!!
After that it was a madhouse. Luckily once we got to the floor it was relatively easy for John to find us rather than us finding him. Of course I have no more pictures of the ceremony or John on the base. Here's one of him back at the hotel:
Don't he look sharp? Of course I have to toss in one of him with his biggest fan (Emma herself)!
Immediately afterwords we left base and went to the Full Moon Diner that was across from the hotel. Amy (his mom) got a migraine so we took her back to the hotel and we sat around for a bit chilling out while John spent some quality time - with his laptop and Zune. Can't fault him for that - 2 months with no music short of marching diddies.
More a little later. Need to organize thoughts!
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