Ok, so to revisit the previous day which rocked the house (or at least the hooch I live in). I skipped breakfast and slept in but made it to church on time. The base is so large it is divided into 3 sections: North, South, and Main (creative I know) and each section actually has its own gym, DFAC (dining facility), and Chapel. So the South Chapel or "Wings Chapel" since its for all the aviation people, is pretty small. It was a definite security blanket/comfort to be in church and you can tell it is a great relief for individuals with major prayer requests. The Chaplains were very warm and friendly and delivered a great message. Obviously it is a very like minded audience sharing common experiences so the message was very targeted and applicable. It was from Phil 2 and reminded me how important it is for me to be serving the rest of my crew. I know that is why I am here and a major way to show these guys Christ's love, but as with most military crews they are pretty rough and hard to love sometimes, but we are all. The music was more humorous for me. Most everyone took it very serious and you could tell were deep in worship, and the music leaders were doing what they could with what they had, but none of us are the best singers, resulting in a very quiet audience. So I couldn't help but notice the Spanish accent coming through the leader's words and for some reason I wanted to bust out laughing. Regardless it was a much welcome way to start the morning/week.

Later in the afternoon we created a sweet action gladiator game, that looking back at it now is really hard to explain unless you want to come out here and play. Needless to say it was awesome. That evening a much anticipated USO sponsored concert came to town with DJ Scribble (not as good as DJ Juicy J) and Naughty by Nature (an early 90's rap trio with at least 2 songs I know). I think its very respectable of individuals who support the USO with tours like this and I partially feel bad for artists like NbN who back in the day could get an entire stadium on their feet cheering but now struggle to keep the attention of 200+ so I felt it was the least I could do to add to the party. It was difficult to find the balance in representing an AF flying officer but also needing to bring the funk. So I started out bobbing and singing along, waving my hand if told to by NbN, but the next thing I knew I was line dancing with a group of black ladies, I blinked and I was on stage singing "HIP HOP HOORAY, HO, HO, HAY". My crew had a great time, but don't believe I'm from Arkansas anymore. All in All it was an awesome day, better than today because I lost at Global Domination (the game of Risk).