Riley's alarm woke us up really early again this morning so we could get to the airport in time to leave. We called for a ride to the airport a bunch of times, but nobody answered the phone. That meant that we'd have to walk. We walked part of the way, then got lucky and found a bus that took us the rest of the way. It would have been a really long way to walk, especially with all those bags.
Once we got to the airport I got really excited by what I could see as the sun came up. There were a bunch of helicopters not far away. I really hoped that we'd be able to go for a ride in one.
I thought that since we got to the airport so early, that we'd be able to get our helicopter ride soon. But it turns out that when something should be done on an Army base, it takes a lot longer than you would think it takes. Instead of riding on our helicopter right away, we sat around and waited for hours and hours.
It was really cold where we were waiting, so to stay warm we sat by something called a torpedo heater. It was a big red tube that blew really hot air out of it. I didn't see any torpedoes around for it to heat up though. Just a bunch of people. After a couple hours, the heater started to make weird noises and little flames spat out of it. A few seconds later a big smoke-cloud came out of the heater and filled the room all the people were in with smoke. Everybody in the room started waving their arms around and shouting. It was almost as much fun to watch as when people walk into my cobwebs.
A couple hours after the smoke cloud, a guy came into the room and told us that it was time to get on the helicopter. Hooray! I got to sit right in front, just behind the pilots. I could also look out the window to see the mountains and cities we flew over.
The flight wasn't very long. But everything looked really different where we landed. There was more snow on the ground and it was lots colder than it was when we left. There were less people, but lots more big trucks. There were some big trucks called HMMWVs and really big trucks called MRAPs. I still don't know why people decided to give their trucks such silly names that are so hard to say. It seems like Paul or Bob would be lots easier to pronounce than HMMWV.
We found our tent and unpacked. Riley said that we shouldn't get too comfortable, though. He said that we'd have to move in a few days. It took us a whole week to get here, and now it looks like we're going to leave and go somewhere else soon.
Sometimes humans do really strange things.
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