What if I told you not to tell??? You'd probably do one of three things: number one, and most unlikely, you'd keep my secret and not tell a soul. Two, you'd tell that one close friend (or a couple close friends) who you think wouldn't tell and you'd tell them not to tell, but invariably they would. Or Three, you'd tell everyone because let's face it gossip and spreading rumors is a fun thing to do.

So what if I told you this is all true? Or mostly true? Or only a little sliver of truth is in here and the rest is lies? Would you still read? Would you tell? What if I said that all this is true and I only pretend it's not because it makes for a better story to pretend it never happened? Or what if I tell you it's true and it's really not, would you really believe it?

In either case, this is blog is full of my secrets and whether or not you share them is up to you, but you can't steal them because everything is safe on the internet. And Everyone always believes what they read, so it must all be true. Wait... maybe I'm wrong about this last little bit.

Whatever... It's a secret. Don't tell.

CG Mixer and International Soldiers

So today was a good day overall and I don't want to bore you with details of most of that... So I'll just dive into what is actually on my mind.

Tonight I attended a CG Mixer with my husband and it was without a doubt, a very interesting evening. The night consisted of me standing in 4 inch heals while we mingled with other Soldiers and a few select spouses that bothered to show up, while waiting for the Commanding General to give a speech and introduce valuable members of his command team. After that, however is where the real fun happened for me. I had spotted a German Soldier and wanted to go talk to him but as I was headed over to where I'd seen him last, Steve and I got stopped by a LTC (Leutenant Colonel, for those of you not in the know) who had seen me and wanted to tell us that he was happy to see a Spouse with her soldier.

The LTC: "Is this your wife? You get a gold star!"


No, I'm not kidding, that's really what he said. I almost laughed out loud at that. Then he spent about 10 minutes trying to convince us to stay for Steve's command time. He also told me that I should visit the Brigade headquarters and speak with the FRG coordinator.

Finally he said good-bye and we found the German Captain. I introduced myself and told him I'd lived there once. We ended up talking about our two Countries and somehow, about halfway through, we ended up building up each other's countries. No lie. You have so much in America! He told me. But you have better stuff. I told him. We ended up having a nice talk, talking about when the Wall came down (I was two there, in my mother's arms.) And about David Hasselhoff. You bet! Haha. It was great. It ended with him inviting me to the International Soldier's Briefing on their Countries for the American Soldiers. WOW! I got invited to that when usually it's only for soldiers!!!

We said goodbye and went into the bar where there was a Ukrainian and we also talked about our Countries. And we talked about Prague and travelling and a bunch of other things. It's so interesting to talk to International Soldiers. It really is enlightening to see how they view us.

Anyways, I'm exhausted but I promise to write more later.
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