For the past two and a half weeks Tom (my oldest son) has been at his yearly Army National Guard training. The location of this was at Camp Navajo just outside of Flagstaff. Last Sat. was Family Day so I loaded his kids, Reagen, Thane and Faith, up in the car and headed north to visit him. The kids were excited since they hadn't seen him in almost 2 weeks. As we entered this the first sign we had that we were now on base.
The morning activities were games with each unit competing against each other with the families cheering them on. Here is a tug of war that we got to see. That's Tom at the very end. Unfortunately they lost this competition but his group did win at Kickball. After all the games the guys (and gals) were release to spend some time with their families. They were having a BBQ with some wonderful looking hamburgers but after spending 2 weeks on base Tom was ready to leave and get some pizza, so thats what we did.
On our way out Tom showed us around a little and the Thane wanted to look at the Army vehicles. Here are Tom and the kids with a few of them. The base was actually pretty nice. Most of the buildings were pretty new. I guess I was expecting it not to be as nice as it was.
The kids loved seeing where Dad had been hanging out. About 4:30 the kids and I headed back to the valley and Tom was going to take a much needed nap on a bed. He had been camping out and sleeping on the ground so a bed sounded very inviting.
The morning activities were games with each unit competing against each other with the families cheering them on. Here is a tug of war that we got to see. That's Tom at the very end. Unfortunately they lost this competition but his group did win at Kickball. After all the games the guys (and gals) were release to spend some time with their families. They were having a BBQ with some wonderful looking hamburgers but after spending 2 weeks on base Tom was ready to leave and get some pizza, so thats what we did.
On our way out Tom showed us around a little and the Thane wanted to look at the Army vehicles. Here are Tom and the kids with a few of them. The base was actually pretty nice. Most of the buildings were pretty new. I guess I was expecting it not to be as nice as it was.
The kids loved seeing where Dad had been hanging out. About 4:30 the kids and I headed back to the valley and Tom was going to take a much needed nap on a bed. He had been camping out and sleeping on the ground so a bed sounded very inviting.
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