I decided to make a blog after finding out that we are moving to Ghedi, Italy this summer. I wanted to have a way to keep family and friends posted on our goings on and such, so this seemed like the perfect medium.
I want to start out by saying that we are very excited/nervous/happy/freaked out by the prospect of moving so far away from everyone and everything that we know and love. It was a total shock. Trevor always rolls with the punches and told me where we are going in a funny way.
Ten days ago I was sorting through my email while waiting on class to be over when I saw new official looking mail in my inbox. When I opened it up it said, "Congratulations on your PCS!" I was pretty excited. As much as we do like living so close to home, we still want to travel and see other bases. The email said to log in to the military portal at work to start on the out processing stuff. So I called Trevor at home and told him to get his butt to work so he could find out where we are going. He was surprised that he was getting orders, usually you have to be at a base for two years before going somewhere else, and we have been here for just over a year.
That whole afternoon I had a hard time focusing on anything. When Trevor picked me up from work I asked him if he found out where we are moving, to which he said "No, I will find out next week." Bummer. But we were very excited about going somewhere else. For the rest of the afternoon I was bubbly and wondering out loud where we might go. Later that day Trevor suggested we go to Olive Garden to celebrate out soon-to-be move. That should have been my first clue, he doesn't usually like to go there and we had been there to eat on valentines day, so I thought it was a little soon to go there again, but I'm not one to pass up on not cooking.
Dinner was tasty, but Trevor was very quiet. He was acting weird for sure. When I asked him about it he just said he was thinking about the move. I started talking about how good the food was to distract him. Trevor looked at me then, and asked: "could you get used to eating this more often?"
(with mouth full of food) "Yeah, why?" I asked.
Trevor then pulled a google map of Ghedi, Italy. I was stunned. I immediately started crying, right there in Olive Garden. I couldn't stop, or finish eating. Trevor asked what was wrong, and I said nothing, I'm just surprised and happy. He knew where we were going as soon as he got to work, he just wanted to surprise me. He's good like that.
We were really surprised. Both of us were really excited and happy to find out that we are going to Italy. But then we realized that we were going to have to tell our family. That totally brought us back down to earth. His mom took it well, which was shocking and my mom was thrilled that we get to go. Everyone else has been happy for us. I have never lived farther than 400 miles from home so I know this is going to be a big change for our little family.
There is a ton to do before the move. I plan on posting about the process and other things that are going on around here, and of course life in Italy. First thing on the agenda is Spring Break(thank god) and spring cleaning.
I hope that wasn't too boring for any of you readers (if there are any!), future posts will hopefully be more exciting/interesting:)
---Ashley
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