Thursday, June 4

Today was the first day we saw him!! We were very excited to get on base and start our exciting long weekend with him!! First at 9:00 was the Airman's Run where they ran first one way and then turned around and ran back the other. The first time I didn't see him and was really bummed and then we saw them again and that time I was able to see him really well!! Then, while they went off and did whatever we had to wait until 1:30 for the Coin Ceremony/Retreat, but they kept us busy with seminars outlining the weekend for us. The ceremony went really well and as soon as they announced them "AIRMAN" we got to run out to find him in the crowd!! It was so awesome to see him for the first time and Andrew would not let go of him for the rest of the day. He looked so nice in his blues and I was proud to be able to be walking next to such a handsome, professional looking guy!! He had base liberty after that until 7:00 so we went to the Mini Mall BX where we sat and talked for hours at Burger King, had some refreshing coffee drinks (Iced Chai for me though) at Green Beans Coffee and then we went to the comic book store to pick up his purchases he had made during basic (they are not allowed to take anything back to the dorm until after graduation weekend) and we went and got Andrew a t-shirt that says "My Daddy is an Airman" with the Air Force emblem. We couldn't find one small enough for Riley, but I am sure I can find something online sometime!! Cathy also bought Adam a 3-slot coin box to keep his coin in and add to it and even had it engraved with his name, squadron and graduation date!! I also ordered a DVD of all the graduation events along with the BMT DVD Adam had already ordered so we could watch the weekend all over again down the road!!