Christopher's first trip home.

Christopher decided that he wanted to come home on liberty for the weekend. He couldn't leave base until 4:00pm Friday and had to be back on base by 5:00am on Monday. He bought his tickets for the train and we were to pick him up in Ann Arbor at 11:30pm on Friday. That's the way it should have happened! What really happened was; He couldn't get off base early enough to catch the metro to Chicago to catch the train for Ann Arbor. He didn't leave until Saturday morning. Katy & Larry picked him up in Ann Arbor about 2:30pm. He stopped at the campground before going into Flint to surprise his friends. Got back to the house about 5:00am
Sunday and was suppose to be at the campground's by noon so he could spend some time with Grandma & Gramps. One of his friends was sick, she has a knot in her appendix, so Grandma & Gramps came to the house to visit Chris for about 15 minutes and then he went to see the sick friend. He should be at the campground for the Reunion about 3:00pm. At 4:15pm Chris finally shows up at the campground and we have to leave to take him to Battle Creek for the 8:30pm train. When we get to Battle Creek the train is 20 minutes late. Which turns into 45 minutes late. He gets on the train and still should be able to make it back to the base with time to spare.
When he gets to Kalamazoo there is a 3 hour wait, a conductor missed the train and they had to wait for him to drive into there, needless to say he called the ship (dorm) and told them what was going on. He made it back to base just a little after 5am Monday and had to start right in with classes. He still thinks it's just great to come home for the weekend. I think it's a big waste of money and time along with me worrying that he won't make it back on base on time.