The plane ride and my First day.

We left Salt Lake shortly after midnight after saying goodbye to my family and friends, it was a huge plane and there was 55 of us to 300 seats - which was cool.  I slept most of the way to Georgia, we stopped there to pick up another Unit.  The plan was for us to get off the plane and then board back on and get our original seats back, but they made us take all of our crap off the plane with us and they wanted to board the plane by the military protocol which is highest ranking goes on first.  We sat at the AFB in georgia for nearly 2 1/2 - 3 hours waiting to board again and once we finally did the Georgia unit boarded first and we boarded second.  I got a really good seat at the very front of the section with lots of leg space, it was awesome.  I took two tylenol pm's and slept most of the way to Germany.  They played four movies on the way there, Surrogates, Twlight:Eclipse, Wolverine and some weird russel crowe/ben affleck movie.  I slept through the first three and didn't have any desire to watch the fourth.
   We arrived in Germany, the commander announced that USA won the soccer game and that we were allowed to drink if we wanted, but recommended that we don't get plastered because we would be to our final destination 6 hours later.  
  We stayed in Germany maybe an hour before boarding the plane again, we sat on the runway forever and taxied forever, I ended up falling asleep before we took off and woke up before the "Fasten Seatbelt" sign was off.    I took another tylenol pm and was ready to sleep but they passed out breakfast, I had some pretty delicious pancakes and strawberry yogurt.  (sidenote, this plane passed hot towels for us about 5 times, I had no idea what to keep doing with them, so I just wiped my face and neck and then gave it back when they came around)  
   Anyways, I slept forever again and woke up with about an hour left before we landed. I just hung out and watched stuff on my iPad.
   After 23+ hours after leaving Salt Lake we finally arrive, they ask all the Airman to get off the plane first, so we do.   Then they tell us to take off our coats and put on some gloves.  We unloaded the plane for everybody, which wasn't bad - I actually got on the plane where the cargo goes and put the bags on the conveyer belt.   After that we filled out a couple forms and in-processed, went through customs so they could make sure we didn't have booze and porn and weapons.  After that we went to our rooms, they were nice and cold (which was good because the heat outside was almost unbearable and they told us today was a cooler day)  We hung out for a minute and unpacked then we went to the chow hall to eat, it is huge and the food isn't bad, they have tons of free soda that is made in some weird country cause it was in arabic style writing and the tab to open it was different.  
   We then had to goto some briefing about how to fix computers here and after that we came back and ate dinner, showered and then went to walk around.   Once the sun was down it wasn't as bad to be outside, still pretty hot but the sun is the worst part of being in the desert.  
  We found a library that has lots and lots of books on tape and tv shows on dvd - so, I will be copying those to my laptop for future use.  We found a hang out joint with ping pong tables, pool tables, video games and comfy couches, and we found a computer/phone place where you can use a computer or make a 15 minute phone call home.  All in all, this place seems like it will be pretty nice for the next 4 1/2 months.   Keep in touch with me via email, google text or comments on this blog.  I'll catch all ya'll later.